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Flexibility vs. Rigidity: Does Spain have the worst of both Worlds?
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2000
In this paper we study the structure of labor market flows in Spain and compare them with France and the US. We characterize a number of empirical regularities and stylized facts. One striking result is that the job finding rate is slightly higher than in France, while the job loss rate is much...
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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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How important are labor market institutions for labor market performance in transition countries?
Lehmann, Hartmut; Muravyev, Alexander - 2009
This paper offers a first comprehensive study of the relationship between labor market institutions and policies and … documents the evolution of labor market institutions and policies in the transition region. The data show a clear trend towards … test several predictions concerning the role of institutions and polices in explaining labor market outcomes. The results …
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The macroeconomics of the labor market: Three fundamental views
Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Héctor; Snower, Dennis J. - 2006
We distinguish and assess three fundamental views of the labor market regarding the movements in unemployment: (i) the … that all the short-run fluctuations automatically turn into long-run changes in the unemployment rate. We assert the …
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Does the Recent Success of Some OECD Countries in Lowering their Unemployment Rates Lie in the Clever Design of their Labour Market Reforms?
Belot, Michèle; van Ours, Jan C. - 2000
unemployment is affected by different labour market institutions (LMI) such as labour taxes, unemployment benefits, employment …The development of the unemployment rate differs substantially between OECD countries. In recent years some countries … experienced a mild increase, other countries had a stable unemployment rate, while there are also 'successful' countries in which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270412
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Education Driving the Rise in Dutch Female Employment: Explanations for the Increase in Part-time Work and Female Employment in the Netherlands, Contrasted with Germany
Schettkat, Ronald; Yocarini, Lara - 2001
Over the last 15 years, the Netherlands has experienced a tremendous jobs boom, mainly in services and female employment. This has often been related to changes in the Dutch institutional environment. Using a model which allows for direct utility of work, we find that institutional arrangements...
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Large employers are more cyclically sensitive
Moscarini, Giuseppe; Postel-Vinay, Fabien - 2009
We provide new evidence that large firms or establishments are more sensitive than small ones to business cycle conditions. Larger employers shed proportionally more jobs in recessions and create more of their new jobs late in expansions, both in gross and net terms. The differential growth rate...
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Impacts of labor taxation with perfectly and imperfectly competitive domestic labor markets under flexible outsourcing
Koskela, Erkki - 2009
What are the impacts of labor tax reform on wage setting and employment to keep the relative tax burden per low-skilled and high-skilled workers constant in the case of heterogenous domestic labor markets, i.e. imperfect competition in low-skilled labor and perfect competition in high-skilled...
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Labour market dynamics in Australia: what drives unemployment?
Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Héctor - 2009
causes of the unemployment upturn in 1973-1983 and the subsequent decline in 1993-2006. Our results show that (i) the main … determinants of the unemployment rise in the 1970s and early 1980s were wage-push factors, the two oil price shocks and the … increase in interest rates, and (ii) the acceleration in capital accumulation was the crucial driving force of unemployment in …
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Sectoral explanations of employment in Europe: the role of services
D'Agostino, Antonello; Serafini, Roberta; Ward, Melanie E. - 2006
This paper investigates the determinants of the service sector employment share in the EU-15, for the aggregate service sector, four sub-sectors and twelve service sector branches. Recently, both Europe and the US have experienced an increase in the share of service-related jobs in total...
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