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Immigration, growth and unemployment: Panel VAR evidence from OECD countries

Boubtane, Ekrame; Coulibaly, Dramane; Rault, Christophe - 2012

This paper examines empirically the interaction between immigration and host country economic conditions. We employ panel VAR techniques to use a large annual dataset on 22 OECD countries over the period 1987-2009. The VAR approach allows to addresses the endogeneity problem by allowing the...

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The Rise and Fall of Swiss Unemployment: Relative Demand Shocks, Wage Rigidities, and Temporary Immigrants

Puhani, Patrick A. - 2003

relative net demand shock against the low skilled (like the US) during this period. It turns out that only workers with an … educational level below apprenticeship were affected by such a shock. Furthermore, I test whether wages reacted flexibly to this … shock and find that they were rigid, which can explain the relative unemployment increase for this group. Finally, I test …

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Inflation Adjustment and Labour Market Structures : Evidence from a Multi-Country Study

Nunziata, Luca; Bowdler, Christopher - 2005

An empirical analysis of the impact of labour market structures on the response of inflation to macroeconomic shocks is presented. Results based on a 20 country panel show that if labour market coordination is high, the effect on inflation of movements in unemployment, import prices, tax rates...

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The Impact of the Unemployment Benefit System on International Spillover Effects

Beissinger, Thomas; Büsse, Oliver - 2003

labor demand and the wage bargaining process. The analysis of the interaction of shock spillovers and benefit system focuses …

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Labour Mobility - An Adjustment Mechanism in Euroland?

Puhani, Patrick A. - 1999

highest in Germany, followed by France, and Italy. However, even in Germany, the accommodation of a shock to unemployment by …

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Wage Rigidities in Western Germany?

Puhani, Patrick A. - 2001

This paper investigates whether and in what sense the west German wage structure has been ?rigid? in the 1990s. To test the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a methodology which makes less restrictive identifying...

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Bismarck versus Beveridge: Which Unemployment Compensation System is More Prone to Labor Market Shocks?

Beissinger, Thomas; Buesse, Oliver - 2001

market shock is provoked in the home country or originates from abroad. We also point out how our results extend to two …

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Employment Adjustment in Portugal: Evidence from Aggregate and Firm Data

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2001

This paper examines the pattern of employment adjustment in Portugal. First, the issue is addressed using a long time series of aggregate data. Although the employment data show persistence, there is nonetheless a fairly rapid rate of employment adjustment. Second, a much shorter time series of...

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The Response of Consumption in Russian Households to Economic Shocks

Stillman, Steven - 2001

household which experiences an exogenous shock of 10% of its total income changes both its food and total non …

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Government Debt as Insurance against Macroeconomic Risk

Barbie, Martin; Hagedorn, Marcus; Kaul, Ashok - 2001

Is there a role for debt beyond curing overaccumulation of capital? Does dynamic efficiency and the infeasibility of debt Ponzi schemes eliminate any Pareto-improving role for a government in a competitive economy with complete markets? Is there an optimal maturity structure of public debt?...

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