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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 paper studies the effects of changes in the age structure on aggregate labour market performance using a panel of Swedish local labour markets. The methodology of Shimer (2001) is used for studying the effects of youth cohort size and is extended to include the full age distribution. The...
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increases in youth unemployment and youth participation in active labor market programs. The impact on unemployment rates by age … and education has been roughly proportional, however. The evolution of employment and unemployment does not offer much … ground for the popular hypothesis that the recent rise in unemployment is driven by large and pervasive shifts in the demand …
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European (CEE) members of European Union (EU) during the period 2000 to 2007 has contributed to the decline in unemployment … decade, emigration indeed had a strong negative effect on unemployment in these countries. A 10 per cent increase in … emigration rate leads to around 5 per cent decrease in unemployment rate. Given the minor effect of immigration on host countries …
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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 persistent in countries with highly regulated labor markets. We … study the Swedish experience of unemployment and monetary policy. Using a structural VAR we find that around 30 percent of …
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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 persistent in countries with highly regulated labor markets. We … study the Swedish experience of unemployment and monetary policy. Using a structural VAR we find that around 30 percent of …
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This paper examines the movements in EU unemployment from two perspectives: a) the NRU/NAIRU perspective, in which … unemployment movements are attributed largely to changes in the long-run equilibrium unemployment rate and (b) the chain …-reaction perspective, in which unemployment movements are viewed as the outcome of the interplay between labor market shocks and prolonged …
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I analyze how general practitioners (GPs) indirectly affect their patients' employment outcomes by deciding on the length of sickness absences. I use an instrumental variables framework where spell durations are identified through supply-side certification measures estimated from the data. I...
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the unemployment rate and the adverse labor supply effect of the pandemic is more pronounced than implied by the labor …
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-households' employment and unemployment surveys, enterprise surveys, administrative datasets, data from government schemes and National …
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