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Levine, David K. - 2010

More advanced technologies demand higher degrees of specialization - and longer chains of production connecting raw inputs to final outputs. Longer production chains are subject to a "weakest link" effect: they are more fragile and more prone to failure. Optimal chain length is determined by the...

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Market constellations and macroeconomic policymaking : institutional impacts on economic performance

Heise, Arne - In: Intereconomics : review of European economic policy 41 (2006) 5, pp. 272-281

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Denmark's flexicurity model : the answer for Europe?

Zhou, Jianping - In: Intereconomics : review of European economic policy 43 (2008) 2, pp. 78-82

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Employment problems in Western Europe's industrial states

Werner, Heinz - In: Intereconomics : review of European economic policy 12 (1977) 1/2, pp. 46-49

Until the start of the seventies the situation on the labour markets of the European industrial states was considered with relative optimism. The high growth rates which most of the countries had achieved seemed to be sufficient to absorb the increases in the available labour force. The author...

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The effects of an EMU insurance scheme on income in unemployment

Jara, H. Xavier; Sutherland, Holly - In: Intereconomics : review of European economic policy 49 (2014) 4, pp. 194-199

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The Cyclical Behavior of Equilibrium Unemployment and Vacancies in the Us and Europe

Justiniano, Alejandro - 2012

-Saxon countries (the US and the UK), two Continental European countries (France and Germany) and two Scandinavian countries (Norway … probabilities observed in US, with mixed success in Europe. In contrast, matching shocks and job destruction shocks play a larger … role in most European countries relative to the US …

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Animal Spirits, Financial Crises and Persistent Unemployment

Farmer, Roger E. A. - 2011

This paper develops a rational expectations model with multiple equilibrium unemployment rates where the price of capital may be unbounded above. I argue that this property is an important feature of any rational-agent explanation of a financial crisis, since for the expansion phase of the...

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Does European Unemployment Prop Up American Wages?

Davis, Donald R. - 2011

We consider trade between a flexible wage America and a rigid real wage Europe. In a benchmark case, a move from autarky to free trade doubles the European unemployment rate, while it raises the American unskilled wage to the high European level. Entry of the unskilled South to world markets...

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Labor Market, Financial Crises and Inflation : Jobless and Wageless Recoveries

Calvo, Guillermo A. - 2012

This paper uses a sample of 116 recession episodes in developed and emerging market economies to compare the labor-market recovery during financial crises with that of other recession episodes. It documents two new stylized facts. First, labor-market recovery from financial crises is...

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The Market Crash and Mass Layoffs : How the Current Economic Crisis May Affect Retirement

Coile, Courtney - 2010

Recent dramatic declines in U.S. stock and housing markets have led to widespread speculation that shrinking retirement …

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