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Explaining the Joint Behavior of Employment, Unemployment and Nonparticipation
Moon, Weh-Sol - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper argues that existing matching models with unemployment as an active search and nonparticipation as an inactive search predict counterfactual results: the unemployment rate is at most two times as volatile as the employmentpopulation ratio; only 20 percent of the actual volatility of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005790049
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Governance & Economic Growth
Punabantu, Siize - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper looks at some of the fundamental ideas in contemporary economics such as the basic economic problem, opportunity cost and allocation a person is expected to encounter when they are first introduced to economic theory. It attempts to explain how the manner in which these concepts are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008685377
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The Impact of Active Labour Market Policies in Romania
Bocean, Claudiu George - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Following the predominance of macroeconomic stabilisation policies and passive policies for alleviate the reform shock in the first phase of transition, active labour market policies (ALMPs) have now come to play a more important role in transition economies. In this paper I present a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621619
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Die Arbeitslosenversicherung in Deutschland – Beitrag zur Bekämpfung oder Ursache von Arbeitslosigkeit
Breiding, Torsten - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
der Probleme auf dem Arbeitsmarkt zu sein. Um Deutschland wettbewerbsfähig zu halten, versuchen die politischen … schaffen. Doch wie effizient sind diese Reformen und wie wirken sie auf den Arbeitsmarkt? Welche Rolle spielen dabei die … auf dem Arbeitsmarkt sollen die Wirkungen der Arbeitslosenversicherung kausal darstellen. Konjunkturbedingte Veränderungen …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008622251
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Une théorie des relations sociales emploi et inégalité
Jellal, Mohamed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
In this paper, we consider a simple model that integrates the component of the social network as a research method of workers as well as a method of recruitment policy by firms. Indeed, taking into account the social sphere is fundamental to understand the labor market dynamic in developing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112561
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Introduzione allo studio dei modelli di "matching" del mercato del lavoro
Lisi, Gaetano - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Matching models are the primary and most popular theoretical tools used by economists to evaluate various labour market policies and to study the problem of unemployment. These notes mean to provide an exhaustive introduction to the study of the benchmark macroeconomic models of the labour market.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008506108
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Earnings losses and labor mobility over the life-cycle
Jung, Philip; Kuhn, Moritz - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
An extensive empirical literature has documented that workers with high tenure suffer large and persistent earnings losses when they get displaced. We study the reasons behind these losses in a tractable search model with a life-cycle dimension, endogenous job mobility, worker- and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109086
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The Cyclical Volatility of Equilibrium Unemployment and Vacancies: Evidence from Italy
Cardullo, Gabriele; Guerrazzi, Marco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
In this paper, we explore the fluctuations of unemployment and vacancies in the Italian labour market over the last twenty years. For reasons of data availability on unfilled job openings, this period is split in two parts. The former is covered by a help-wanted time series, while the latter is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111175
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An evaluation of ALMP: the case of Spain
Herrarte, Ainhoa; Sáez Fernández, Felipe - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
In this paper we use non-experimental microdata to analyse the effects of several active labour market policies (ALMPs) carried out by the National Employment Institute (INEM) and the regional governments in Spain from 2001 to 2002. We compare the employment rates of the treatment group and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111479
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Network social capital and labour market outcomes Evidence from Ireland
Brady, Gerard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Using data from the International Social Survey Programme 2008 this paper tests empirically the effects of network social capital on Irish employment outcomes, while controlling for possible endogeneity. We allow the effects of social networks to vary for different groups and across different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258103