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This paper considers the role mergers and acquisitions have on employment. First, it considers the importance of … activity in a similar manner, employment authorities may be able to anticipate the regions in which takeovers are more likely …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267376
This paper considers the role mergers and acquisitions have on employment. First, it considers the importance of … activity in a similar manner, employment authorities may be able to anticipate the regions in which takeovers are more likely …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761983
In this paper we use information on the cyclical variation of labor market participation to learn about the aggregate labor supply elasticity. For this purpose, we extend the standard labor market matching model to allow for endogenous participation. A model that is calibrated to replicate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282265
This paper examines the possibility of unit roots in the presence of endogenously determined multiple structural breaks in the total, female and male labour force participation rates (LFPR) for Australia, Canada and the USA. We extend the procedure of Gil-Alana (2008) for single structural break...
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This paper shows that the structural breaks are an important characteristic of the monthly labor force participation rate (LFPR) series of Australia, Canada and the USA. Therefore we allow for endogenously determined multiple structural breaks in the empirical specifications of fractionally...
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Western Europe, but by lower employment rates in Eastern and Southern Europe. …
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A search-theoretic model of the labor market with idiosyncratic fluctuations in hours worked, search both off- and on-the-job, and multiple jobholding is developed. Taking on a second job entails a commitment to hold onto the primary employer, enabling the worker to use the primary job as her...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005995
employment. This has often been related to changes in the Dutch institutional environment. Using a model which allows for direct … employment boom - contributed only marginally, if at all, to the rise in female labor supply. The increasing proportion of women …
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This paper studies the relationship between employment and wage structures in West Germany based on the IAB employment … evolution of relative employment measures, we estimate elasticities of substitution between employees in three different skill … groups and between those of different age, taking account of the endogeneity of wages and employment. Compared to estimates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268008
Cross-country employment differences are concentrated among women, the youth, and older individuals. In this paper, we … document how worker flows between employment, unemployment, and out of the labor force vary by gender and age and contribute to … aggregate employment differences across a large panel of European countries. We then build a life-cycle Diamond …
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