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Labour Mobility - An Adjustment Mechanism in Euroland?

Puhani, Patrick A. - 1999

European Union. Regression results are provided for Western Germany, France, and Italy. It is shown that labour mobility is … highest in Germany, followed by France, and Italy. However, even in Germany, the accommodation of a shock to unemployment by …

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A call for comparative research: Consequences of a rising income inequality for state activities

Neubäumer, Renate - 2011

The aim of this discussion paper is not only to activate a debate over the interrelation between rising income inequality and economic policy measures but also to initiate comparative research in several European countries and North America. It discusses the consequences of a rising income...

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Are Home Owners Really More Unemployed?

Munch, Jakob Roland; Rosholm, Michael; Svarer, Michael - 2003

This paper investigates the effects of home-ownership on labour mobility and unemployment duration. We distinguish between finding employment locally or by being geographically mobile. We find that home ownership hampers the propensity to move for job reasons but improves the chances of finding...

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Employment and exchange rates: the role of openness and technology

Alexandre, Fernando; Bação, Pedro; Cerejeira, João; … - 2009

Real exchange rate movements are important drivers of the reallocation of resources between sectors of the economy. Economic theory suggests that the impact of exchange rates should vary with the degree of exposure to international competition and with the technology level. This paper...

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Sectoral Adjustment of Employment: The Impact of Outsourcing and Trade at the Micro Level

Egger, Peter; Pfaffermayr, Michael; Weber, Andrea Maria - 2003

This paper analyzes the effects of trade and outsourcing on the transition probabilities of employment between sectors, using a dynamic multinomial logit framework with fixed effects. The data contain individual Austrian male workers over the period 1988-2001. Our results strongly support the...

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Child poverty and changes in child poverty in rich countries since 1990

Chen, Wen-Hao; Corak, Miles - 2005

This paper documents levels and changes in child poverty rates in 12 OECD countries using data from the Luxembourg Income Study project, and focusing upon an analysis of the reasons for changes over the 1990s. The objective is to uncover the relative role of income transfers from the state in...

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Do Europe's minimum income schemes provide adequate shelter against the economic crisis and how, if at all, have governments responded?

Marchal, Sarah; Marx, Ive; Van Mechelen, Natascha - 2011

The present economic crisis comes against the background of decades of policy changes that have generally weakened the capacity of social safety nets to offer citizens with adequate resources for financial survival when labour markets fail to do so. Building on data for 24 European Union...

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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 … higher than in France, while the job loss rate is much higher, putting Spain half-way between France and the US. This …

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The returns to seniority in France (and why are they lower than in the United States?)

Beffy, Magali; Buchinsky, Moshe; Fougère, Denis; … - 2006

We estimate a model of the joint participation and mobility along with the individuals' wage formation in France. Our … using state of the art Bayesian methods employing a long panel (1976-1995) for France. Our results clearly show that returns … rationale for this phenomenon. Specifically, in a low-mobility country such as France, there is little gain in compensating …

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Technological and organizational changes, and labor flows: evidence on French establishments

Askenazy, Philippe; Moreno-Galbis, Eva - 2007

occupational categories in France. We conduct an empirical analysis in which we make extensive use of a unique data set on a …

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