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Employment to output elasticities & reforms towards flexicurity : evidence from OECD countries
Görg, Holger; Hornok, Cecília; Montagna, Catia; … - 2018
How do labour market policies influence employment's responsiveness to output fluctuations (employment-output elasticity)? We revisit this question on a panel of OECD countries, which also incorporates the period of the Great Recession. We distinguish between passive and active labour market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931530
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Macroeconomic volatilities and the labor market : first results from the euro experiment
Merkl, Christian; Schmitz, Tom - 2009
. We use a New Keynesian model with unemployment to predict the effects of different labor market institutions on …This paper analyzes the effects of different labor market institutions on inflation and output volatility. The eurozone …, but stands in stark contrast to the search and matching model. While labor market institutions have a large effect on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003827228
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Outsourcing motives, location choice and labour market implications : an empirical analysis for European countries
Neureiter, Marcus; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2009
We use data on motives of international outsourcing and location choices from a recent survey of European companies to assess the labour market repercussions at home. Employing Tobit models we differentiate between job losses as well as job creation for high and low skilled employees at the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872028
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A simple decomposition of the variance of output growth across countries
Reicher, Christopher Phillip - 2011
This paper outlines a simple regression-based method to decompose the variance of an aggregate time series into the variance of its components, which is then applied to measure the relative contributions of productivity, hours per worker, and employment to cyclical output growth across a panel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009127619
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Labour supply and labour force participation in Europe : a discussion of some recent developments and projections
Chagny, Odile; Döpke, Jörg; Plane, Mathieu; Schmidt, … - 2001
covering the development on an aggregate level. Estimations to shed light on the relation between unemployment and labour force … years. However, the impact of this development on unemployment is rather limited. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011473881
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The "employment intensity" of growth in Europe
Döpke, Jörg - 2001
. Empirical results concerning Europe and selected other industrial countries reveal that the cyclical link between unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011474618