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Unemployment and Finance:How do Financial and Labour Market FactorsInteract?
Gatti, Donatella; Rault, Christophe; Vaubourg, Anne-Gael - William Davidson Institute <Ann Arbor, Mich.> - 2010
interact to determine unemployment by estimating a dynamicpanel model using the system generalized method of moments (GMM). We … well as decreased banking concentration reduce unemployment ifthe level of labour market regulation, union density and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360503
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Formal and informal labour markets: Challenges and policy in the Central and Eastern European new EU members and candidate countries
Schneider, Friedrich; Burger, Christina - 2004
The paper aims at comparing the formal and informal labour markets in the Central and Eastern European new EU Member States and candidate countries of the European Union. First, the current situation of the labour market is described, focusing on the recent developments since the breaking up of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294504
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The determinants and consequences of unemployed workers' wage demands
Eriksson, Stefan; Lagerström, Jonas - 2010
This paper studies the determinants and labor market consequences of unemployed workers' wage demands using direct data … previous jobs, and thus much more than they get in unemployment benefits. However, our results also show that some groups, such … demands may contribute to high unemployment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321440
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Does Unemployment Hysteresis Equal Employment Hysteresis?
Gustavsson, Magnus; Österholm, Pär - 2006
unemployment rates are studied. Applying a range of unit-root tests to monthly data from Australia, Austria, Canada, Finland …, Sweden, the U.K. and the U.S., we find results for employment rates that contrast those based on unemployment rates. In … particular, rather than the mixed evidence for hysteresis found using unemployment rates, employment rates result in unequivocal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321556
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The role of gender inequalities in explaining income growth, poverty and inequality: Evidence from Latin American countries
Costa, Joana; Silva, Elydia; Vaz, Fábio - 2009
This Working Paper investigates the possible link between gender inequalities in the labour market and significant economic outcomes such as income growth, poverty and inequality indicators. Our analysis is based on microsimulations for eight Latin American countries. We consider four aspects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293303
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Counting gigs: How can we measure the scale of online platform work?
Piasna, Agnieszka - 2020
well as rising unemployment and the financial strain on many workers, platform work may resume its rapid growth. Therefore …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014565869
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SEARCH IN MACROECONOMIC MODELS OF THE LABOR MARKET
Rogerson, Richard; Shimer, Robert - National Bureau of Economic Research <Cambridge, Mass.> - 2010
This chapter assesses how models with search frictions have shaped our understanding of aggregatelabor market outcomes in two contexts: business cycle fluctuations and long-run (trend) changes. Wefirst consolidate data on aggregate labor market outcomes for a large set of OECD countries. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870309
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Rules and Reality: Quantifying the Practice of Apprenticeship in Early Modern Europe
Minns, Chris; Wallis, Patrick - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2009
This paper uses recently digitised samples of apprentices and masters in London and Bristol to quantify the practice of apprenticeship in the late 17th century. Apprenticeship appears much more fluid than is traditionally understood. Many apprentices did not complete their terms of indenture;...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870488
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Labour Market Adjustment to Economic Downturns in the Catalan TextileIndustry, 1880-1910. Did Employers Breach Implicit Contracts?
Domenech, Jordi - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005
This paper studies the way workers and firms behaved in a highly cyclical sector such as the cotton textile industry, which encompassed 1/5 of the Catalan industrial workforce in the early 20th century. Using firm level evidence from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the paper shows that,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870574
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Workers and ‘Subalterns’: A comparative study of labour in Africa, Asia and Latin America
Lewis, Colin M. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2003
[...]In part, this collection of papers derives from the impact of Subaltern Studies on approaches to the history of labour. While the contributions may not be located within ‘subalternism’, to differing degrees they reflect responses in the literature to that paradigm. At the very least,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870599