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Beveridge (full-employment-consistent) rate of unemployment (BECRU), derived from the unemployment-vacancies relationship. The … BECRU is the level of unemployment that minimises the non-productive use of labour. Based on a novel dataset for the period …. The European unemployment problem emerged in the 1980s and 1990s, as Beveridgean full employment gaps increased. In the …
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This paper analyses (age-adjusted) employment rates by gender and education. We find that malefemale gender gaps and high-low education gaps in employment vary markedly across European Union (EU) countries and regions, with larger gaps existing in Eastern and Southern Europe than in Nordic and...
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Results of general equilibrium models are sensitive to model parameterization and specification. The role of macroeconomic closures and the effect of trade elasticities are documented in the literature, but there is no systematic analysis of the implications of different labor supply...
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the 2018-2021 period. The analysis focuses on the divergences in out-of-unemployment transitions and medium … detachment, prolonged periods of unemployment or a diminished success rate in reemployment. However, certain socio …
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-employment to analyze the implications of introducing universal unemployment protection for informal workers through transfers …, which are conditional on participation in training programs. We study how changes in unemployment benefits (UB) for … increasing training UB reduces unprotected unemployment and improves labor market outcomes through higher formal salaried …
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causes of the unemployment upturn in 1973-1983 and the subsequent decline in 1993-2006. Our results show that (i) the main … determinants of the unemployment rise in the 1970s and early 1980s were wage-push factors, the two oil price shocks and the … increase in interest rates, and (ii) the acceleration in capital accumulation was the crucial driving force of unemployment in …
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, greater average firm productivity, a larger formal employment share, and a marginally lower unemployment rate. …
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economies (EMEs) by building a framework with equilibrium unemployment and firm entry that incorporates key elements of the …-employment, labor participation, and unemployment. As a result, the tax generates output and welfare losses. Green technology adoption …
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implications for the unemployment-inflation tradeoff and for the conduct of monetary policy.We proceed in two steps. We first leave … firms. We derive the relation between inflation and unemployment and discuss how it is influenced by the presence of labor … market frictions and real wage rigidities. We show the nature of the tradeoff between inflation and unemployment …
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volatility, but generates substantially higher unemployment fluctuations in response to productivity shocks. Moreover, the policy … unemployment dynamics. The findings point to potential gains from policy complementarities between macroprudential regulation and …
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