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Structural change in developing countries: Has it decreased gender inequality?

Rendall, Michelle - 2012

This paper examines the evolution of female labor market outcomes from 1987 to 2008 by assessing the role of changing labor demand requirements in four developing countries: Brazil, Mexico, India and Thailand. The results highlight the importance of structural change in reducing gender...

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The causal impact of social connections on firms' outcomes

Eliason, Marcus; Hensvik, Lena; Kramarz, Francis; … - 2017

The paper studies how social connections affect firm-level hiring decisions and performance. We characterize the social connections of firms' employees using register data and for causal identification we use job displacements, which create directed positive shocks towards connected firms by...

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The Rise and Fall of Swedish Unemployment

Holmlund, Bertil - 2003

By international standards, unemployment in Sweden remained remarkably low throughout the 1970s and the 1980s. In the early 1990s, however, the unemployment rate skyrocketed and hit double-digit levels. Unemployment remained high for several years but exhibited a marked fall from 1997 and...

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International Labour Force Participation Rates by Gender: Unit Root or Structural Breaks?

Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin; Balcilar, Mehmet; Tansel, Aysit - 2011

in the total, female and male labour force participation rates (LFPR) for Australia, Canada and the USA. We extend the …

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Are Labor Force Participation Rates Really Non-Stationary? Evidence from Three OECD Countries

Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin; Balcilar, Mehmet; Tansel, Aysit - 2012

rate (LFPR) series of Australia, Canada and the USA. Therefore we allow for endogenously determined multiple structural … previous research the LFPRs of Australia, Canada and the USA are stationary implying that the informational value of the …

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Monetary policy and Swedish unemployment fluctuations

Alexius, Annika; Holmlund, Bertil - 2008

A widely spread belief among economists is that monetary policy has relatively short-lived effects on real variables such as unemployment. Previous studies indicate that monetary policy affects the output gap only at business cycle frequencies, but the effects on unemployment may well be more...

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Monetary Policy and Swedish Unemployment Fluctuations

Alexius, Annika; Holmlund, Bertil - 2007

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When and how to create a job: The survival of new jobs in Austrian firms

Böheim, René; Stiglbauer, Alfred; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2005

While the volatility of job creations has been studied extensively, the survival chances of new jobs are less researched. The question when and how to expand a firm is of importance, both from the firm’s and from a macro perspective. Adjustment cost theories and arguments about option values...

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Declining responsiveness at the establishment level: Sources and productivity implications

Cooper, Russell W.; Haltiwanger, John C.; Willis, … - 2024

is accounted for by the reduction in the response of employment to shocks in US establishments. Using a plant … estimation of our structural model. Our results indicate that the reduction in responsiveness largely reflects increased costs of … employment adjustment. Changes in market power, as captured by changes in the curvature of the revenue function, play a minimal …

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Inventories, employment and hours

Galeotti, Marzio; Maccini, Louis J.; Schiantarelli, Fabio - 2002

associated with it In particular we distinguish between employment hours and effort per worker and allow for adjustment costs … associated with employment changes We assume that the requirement function for effective hours has a general trans …-logarithmic form and derive an estimable system of Euler equations for inventories and employment with implied cross …

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