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This paper provides evidence that finishing school when labour markets are weak leads to poor subsequent labour market prospects, particularly those leaving school at younger ages. Using administrative register data from Denmark, we find that these scarring effects are larger and more persistent...
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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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We analyse the effects active labour market programmes (ALMPs) have on unemployment in a union wage-setting framework … case where ALMPs increase match efficiency of the marginalized workers, and show that ALMPs may increase unemployment. …
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, unemployment and the size of the informal sector are affected by punishment policies, which has been ignored in the previous …
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While examining the macroeconomic effects of government tax and punishment policies, this paper develops a three-sector general equilibrium model featuring matching frictions and worker-firm wage bargaining. Workers are assumed to differ in ability, and the choice of education is determined...
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. Furthermore, if the presence of skill-biased technological shocks increase unemployment, this may explain why the market it …-between subsidizing education and thereby reducing unemployment and optimizing welfare may be eliminated. We analyse this issue in a …
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associated with high consumption value and low effort. This increases the skill mismatch and aggregate unemployment in the …
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