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Labour Market Dynamics in Spanish Regions: Evaluating Asymmetries in Troublesome Times
Sala, Hector; Trivín, Pedro - 2013
reacts to regional employment shocks in a variety of cases. Shock responses are channelled via changes in unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329166
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Inequality and employment sensitivities to the falling labour share
Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector - 2011
inequality and employment. To this end, we use annual data for the US, UK and Sweden over the past forty years and estimate … contributions of the labour share to the trajectories of inequality and employment during specific time intervals in the post-1990 … years. We find that during the nineties the cost of a one percent increase in employment was in the range of 0 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278673
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Caregiving Subsidies and Spousal Early Retirement Intentions
Costa-Font, Joan; Vilaplana-Prieto, Cristina - 2022
Balancing caregiving duties and work can be both financially and emotionally burdensome, especially when care is provided to a spouse at home. This paper documents that financial respite for caregivers can influence individuals' early retirement decisions. We examine the effect of a reform...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351878
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The Labour Market Returns to Sleep
Costa-Font, Joan; Flèche, Sarah; Pagan, Ricardo - 2022
induced by time and local variations in sunset time. We find that a 1-hour increase in weekly sleep increases employment by 1 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470504
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Health and Wellbeing Spillovers of a Partner's Cancer Diagnosis
Angelini, Viola; Costa-Font, Joan - 2023
Major health shocks can have far-reaching consequences on the welfare of an individual's support and emotional network. This paper investigates both long-term and short-term spillovers of a major non-communicable health shock, namely a cancer diagnosis (CD), on the health and well- being of an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377112
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Labour Market Dynamics in Spanish Regions: Evaluating Asymmetries in Troublesome Times
Sala, Hector; Trivín, Pedro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
reacts to regional employment shocks in a variety of cases. Shock responses are channelled via changes in unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212754
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Unemployment in the European Union: A Dynamic Reappraisal
Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector; Snower, Dennis J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
This paper examines the movements in EU unemployment from two perspectives: (a) the NRU/NAIRU perspective, in which unemployment movements are attributed largely to changes in the long-run equilibrium unemployment rate and (b) the chain-reaction perspective, in which unemployment movements are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703234
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Unemployment in the European Union: Institutions, Prices, and Growth
Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector; Snower, Dennis J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
This paper presents a reappraisal of unemployment movements in the European Union. Our analysis is based on the chain reaction theory of unemployment, which focuses on (a) the interaction among labor market adjustment processes, (b) the interplay between these adjustment processes and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703238
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The Wage-Productivity Gap Revisited: Is the Labour Share Neutral to Employment?
Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
investigates its impact on the evolution of employment. Whilst maintaining the assumption of a unitary long-run elasticity of wages … stylised labour demand equation and show that the labour share is a driving force of employment. We substantiate our analytical … exposition by providing empirical models of wage setting and employment equations for France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008548704
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Inequality and Employment Sensitivities to the Falling Labour Share
Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
inequality and employment. To this end, we use annual data for the US, UK and Sweden over the past forty years and estimate … contributions of the labour share to the trajectories of inequality and employment during specific time intervals in the post-1990 … years. We find that during the nineties the cost of a one percent increase in employment was in the range of 0 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009147295