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Labor Market Prospects, Search Intensity and the Transition from College to Work

van Vuuren, Aico; van der Klaauw, Bas; Berkhout, Peter - 2004

. Our estimation results show that a 1 percent point decrease in unemployment rate increases wage offers with 3 percent …

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Combining Micro and Macro Unemployment Duration Data

van den Berg, Gerard J.; van der Klaauw, Bas - 2000

. The distribution of the inflow composition is estimated along with the other parameters. The estimation method deals with …

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Duration Dependence in the Exit Rate out of Unemployment in Belgium: Is It True or Spurious?

Cockx, Bart Leo Wim; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2002

On the basis of aggregate data for the early nineties, we analyse the determinants of unemployment duration for laid-off male workers in Wallonia (Belgium). Our results demonstrate that if ranking in recruitment occurs, the standard Mixed Proportional Hazard specification can be too restrictive,...

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Skill Upgrading and Rigid Relative Wages: The Case of Danish Manufacturing

Sørensen, Anders; Skaksen, Jan Rose - 2003

Relative wages have been remarkably rigid for the last two decades in Danish manufacturing despite large shifts in relative employment from unskilled labor towards skilled and educated labor. Assuming capital-skill complementarity and fixed relative wages as a consequence of labor market...

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Real wages and the business cycles in Germany

Marczak, Martyna; Beissinger, Thomas - 2010

This paper establishes stylized facts about the cyclicality of real consumer wages and real producer wages in Germany. As detrending methods we apply the deterministic trend model, the Beveridge-Nelson decomposition, the Hodrick-Prescott filter, the Baxter-King filter and the structural time...

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Individual mortality and macro-economic conditions from birth to death

Lindeboom, Maarten; Portrait, France; van den Berg, … - 2003

This paper analyzes the effects of macro-economic conditions throughout life on the individual mortality rate. We estimate flexible duration models where the individual?s mortality rate depends on current conditions, conditions earlier in life (notably during childhood), calendar time, age,...

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Explaining the dynamics in perceptions of job insecurity in Russia

Lokshin, Michael; Gimpelson, Vladimir; Oshchepkov, Aleksey - 2012

Contrary to the experiences of other countries, perceptions of job insecurity in Russia were not correlated with the rates of unemployment and the business cycle over the last decade. We develop the theoretical framework that predicts that the individual perceptions of job insecurity depend on...

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The German manufacturing sector is a granular economy

Wagner, Joachim - 2011

Using the approach suggested by Gabaix (Econometrica 2011) this paper demonstrates that idiosyncratic shocks in the largest firms are important for an understanding of aggregate volatility in German manufacturing industries. The implications of this finding for theoretical and empirical research...

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Wages, Productivity, and Work Intensity in the Great Depression

Darby, Julia; Hart, Robert A. - 2002

' intensive margins. Short-run changes in work intensity and the longer-term goal of restoring full potential productivity …

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Economic Reforms and Productivity-Enhancing Reallocation in the Post-Soviet Transition

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2004

How do economic reforms affect resource reallocation processes and their contributions to productivity growth? This … rates that bore little relationship to relative labor and multifactor productivity across firms. Since reforms began …, resource flows have increased in both countries, and their contributions to aggregate productivity growth have become …

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