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Understanding inter-industry wage structures in the euro area
Genre, Véronique; Kohn, Karsten; Momferatou, Daphne - 2009
This paper focuses on the euro area wage structure and its potential determinants from a sectoral viewpoint. Merging information from the OECD Structural Analysis database with data from the EU Labour Force Survey, we construct a cross-country panel of 22 industries in 8 euro area countries for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269057
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Macroeconomic volatilities and the labor market: First results from the euro experiment
Merkl, Christian; Schmitz, Tom - 2010
This paper analyzes the effects of different labor market institutions on inflation and output volatility. The eurozone …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277963
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Migration as an Adjustment Mechanism in the Crisis? A Comparison of Europe and the United States
Jauer, Julia; Liebig, Thomas; Martin, John P.; Puhani, … - 2014
disparities, in particular within the Eurozone where there is no exchange-rate mechanism available to play this role. We shed some … be absorbed by migration within a year. However, in the Eurozone the reaction mainly stems from migration of third …-country nationals. Even within the group of Eurozone nationals, a significant part of the free mobility stems from immigrants from third …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333349
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Migration as an Adjustment Mechanism in the Crisis? A Comparison of Europe and the United States 2006–2016
Jauer, Julia; Liebig, Thomas; Martin, John P.; Puhani, … - 2018
especially in the Eurozone, the reaction to a very large extent stems from migration of recent EU accession country citizens as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011816600
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Migration as an Adjustment Mechanism in the Crisis? A Comparison of Europe and the United States
Jauer, Julia; Liebig, Thomas; Martin, John P.; Puhani, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
disparities, in particular within the Eurozone where there is no exchange-rate mechanism available to play this role. We shed some … be absorbed by migration within a year. However, in the Eurozone the reaction mainly stems from migration of third …-country nationals. Even within the group of Eurozone nationals, a significant part of the free mobility stems from immigrants from third …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884205
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An Explanation of International Differences in Education and Workplace Training
Brunello, Giorgio; Medio, Alfredo - 2000
We develop a simple search equilibrium model of workplace training and education based on two features. First, investment in education improves job-related learning skills and reduces training costs burdened by firms. Second, firms with vacant skilled job slots can choose between recruitment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262339
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Unequal pay or unequal employment? A cross-country analysis of gender gaps
Olivetti, Claudia; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2006
Gender wage and employment gaps are negatively correlated across countries. We argue that non-random selection of women into work explains an important part of such correlation and thus of the observed variation in wage gaps. The idea is that, if women who are employed tend to have relatively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267679
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Employment protection, firm selection, and growth
Poschke, Markus - 2007
This paper analyzes the effect of firing costs on aggregate productivity growth. For this purpose, a model of endogenous growth through selection and imitation is developed. It is consistent with recent evidence on firm dynamics and on the importance of reallocation for productivity growth. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268234
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Immigrants and welfare programmes: exploring the interactions between immigrant characteristics, immigrant welfare dependence and welfare policy
Barrett, Alan; McCarthy, Yvonne - 2008
The primary purpose of this paper is to provide a review of the papers within the economics literature that have examined the questions of immigrant welfare use and the responsiveness of immigrants to the incentives created by welfare systems. While our focus is largely on papers looking at the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268542
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Uncertainty and the politics of employment protection
Vindigni, Andrea - 2008
This paper investigates the role that idiosyncratic uncertainty plays in shaping social preferences over the degree of labor market flexibility, in a general equilibrium model of dynamic labor demand where the productivity of firms evolves over time as a Geometric Brownian motion. A key result...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268688