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Accounting for Differences in Labour Market Outcomes in Great Britain : A Regional Analysis Using the Labour Force Survey
O'Leary, Nigel C.; Murphy, Philip D.; Latreille, Paul L.; … - 2005
decomposes regional differences in employment, economic inactivity and unemployment into components due to either structural or …Regional unemployment rates in Great Britain have narrowed dramatically in recent years. However, significant … differences still remain in terms of both employment and economic inactivity rates, which may now better reflect relative labour …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276085
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Accounting for Differences in Labour Market Outcomes in Great Britain: Regional Analysis Using the Labour Force Survey
O'Leary, Nigel; Murphy, Philip D.; Latreille, Paul; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
decomposes regional differences in employment, economic inactivity and unemployment into components due to either structural or …Regional unemployment rates in Great Britain have narrowed dramatically in recent years. However, significant … differences still remain in terms of both employment and economic inactivity rates, which may now better reflect relative labour …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762298
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Disaggregate Matching Functions
Fahr, René; Sunde, Uwe - 2001
This paper deals with empirical matching functions. The paper is innovative in several ways. First, unlike in most of the existing literature, matching functions are estimated not only on aggregate, but also on disaggregate levels which is unusual due to the scarcity of appropriate data....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262541
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A Test of the ?Krugman Hypothesis? for the United States, Britain, and Western Germany
Puhani, Patrick A. - 2003
Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment … large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262722
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Skill wage premia, employment, and cohort effects: are workers in Germany all of the same type?
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Kohn, Karsten - 2006
-specific unemployment rates in 1997. The required nominal wage reductions range from 8.8 to 12.2% and are the higher the lower the employees …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268008
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Life-Cycle Worker Flows and Cross-Country Differences in Aggregate Employment
Créchet, Jonathan; Lalé, Etienne; Tarasonis, Linas - 2024
document how worker flows between employment, unemployment, and out of the labor force vary by gender and age and contribute to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014533813
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Unemployment Paths in a Pandemic Economy
Petrosky-Nadeau, Nicolas; Valletta, Robert G. - 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has upended the U.S. economy and labor market. We assess the initial spike in unemployment due to … the virus response and possible paths for the official unemployment rate through 2021. Substantial uncertainty surrounds … the path for measured unemployment, depending on the path of the virus and containment measures and their impact on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269972
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The Great Canadian Recovery: The Impact of COVID-19 on Canada's Labour Market
Jones, Stephen R. G.; Lange, Fabian; Riddell, W. Craig; … - 2022
stock and flow data to understand key developments. We find dramatic changes in employment, unemployment and labour market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351943
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Canadian Labour Market Dynamics during COVID-19
Jones, Stephen R. G.; Lange, Fabian; Riddell, W. Craig; … - 2021
stock and flow data to understand key developments. We find dramatic changes in employment, unemployment and labour market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012658167
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Assessing Labor Market Conditions in Canada with Public-Use Microdata
Lalé, Etienne - 2024
Survey (LFS) to construct worker transition rates across employment, unemployment, and inactivity. Our approach involves … of job search from inactivity compared to unemployment. This factor provides enough structure to prevent arbitrary … splitting of unemployment outflows between employment and inactivity. In turn, the estimated job search factor can be used in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469615