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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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Demographic and education effects on unemployment in Europe

Biagi, Federico; Lucifora, Claudio - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 15 (2008) 5, pp. 1076-1101

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Should I stay or should I go? : the effect of gender, education and unemployment on labour market transitions

Theodossiou, Ioannis; Zangelidis, A. - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 16 (2009) 5, pp. 566-577

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Unemployment duration and the interactions between unemployment insurance and social assistance

Pellizzari, Michele - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 13 (2006) 6, pp. 773-798

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An introduction to the special feature section : price, wage and employment adjustments in 2007 – 2008 and some inference for the current European crisis

Wasmer, Etienne (contributor) - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 19 (2012) 5, pp. 769-771

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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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