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provision of labour market relevant information by former coworkers affects the employment probabilities and, if hired, the … results suggest a strong positive effect of a higher employment rate in a worker's network of former coworkers on his re-employment … probability after displacement: a 10 percentage point increase in the prevailing employment rate in the network increases the re-employment …
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This paper challenges what is the standard account of UK unemployment, namely that the major swings in unemployment over the past 25 years are due predominantly to movements in the underlying empirical “natural rate of unemployment” (NRU). Our analysis suggests that the British NRU has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273128
provision of labour market relevant information by former coworkers affects the employment probabilities and, if hired, the … results suggest a strong positive effect of a higher employment rate in a worker's network of former coworkers on his re-employment … probability after displacement: a 10 percentage point increase in the prevailing employment rate in the network increases the re-employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319413
This paper challenges what is the standard account of UK unemployment, namely that the major swings in unemployment over the past 25 years are due predominantly to movements in the underlying empirical "natural rate of unemployment" (NRU). Our analysis suggests that the British NRU has remained...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763790
played by trade and FDI in determining employment. The empirical results obtained lend support to globalization having a …There is a dearth of research on the impact of technological change on employment in the context of least developed … countries (LDCs) embarking on globalization, which enhances the prospect of direct technological imports or embodied …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010723562
, which evolved through structural transformation in the era of globalization. The analysis is based on a dynamic model … assume that as competition increases industries adjust their employment to a desired level which is both industry and time … manufacturing is not inefficient in labour use as modest speed of adjustment has led employment size closer to the optimal level. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267694
played by trade and FDI in determining employment. The empirical results obtained lend support to globalization having a …There is a dearth of research on the impact of technological change on employment in the context of least developed … countries (LDCs) embarking on globalization, which enhances the prospect of direct technological imports or embodied …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329092
. Countries with national wage coordination can thus stabilize overall employment against fluctuations and shocks in the world … exposure from China experienced a marked fall in employment, while countries with wage-coordination experienced no such … employment effects. We test our main mechanism against other explanations, and show that our findings are robust to alternative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269937
The past several decades have witnessed a rebirth of global labor mobility. Workers have begun to move between countries at rates not seen since before World War One. During the same period, economists' study of international migration has been framed by a particular textbook model of location...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012882621
, which evolved through structural transformation in the era of globalization. The analysis is based on a dynamic model … assume that as competition increases industries adjust their employment to a desired level which is both industry and time … manufacturing is not inefficient in labour use as modest speed of adjustment has led employment size closer to the optimal level. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233871