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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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Private consumption demand falls in response to increased unemployment risk during a recession, as households increase … unemployment risk is more important than realized unemployment shocks in accounting for durable expenditure dynamics during … recessions, while the opposite is true for nondurables. The importance of anticipation of future unemployment risk also means …
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Wages are only mildly cyclical, implying that shocks to labour demand have a larger short-run impact on unemployment …
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recession and in its aftermath, including the sharp decline in labor force participation and informal employment that is unique … exhibits a long-run reduction in total employment and labor force participation, but higher levels of GDP and labor income …, greater average firm productivity, a larger formal employment share, and a marginally lower unemployment rate. …
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-employment, labor participation, and unemployment. As a result, the tax generates output and welfare losses. Green technology adoption … economies (EMEs) by building a framework with equilibrium unemployment and firm entry that incorporates key elements of the …
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This paper estimates the importance of temptation (Gul and Pesendorfer, 2001) for consumption smoothing and asset accumulation in a structural life-cycle model. We use two complementary estimation strategies: first, we estimate the Euler equation of this model; and second we match liquid and...
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This paper studies the effect of mandated severance pay in a matching model featuring wage rigidity for ongoing, but not new, matches. Mandated severance pay matters only if binding real wage rigidities imply inefficient separation under employment at will. In such a case, large enough severance...
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The Great Recession, which was preceded by the financial crisis, resulted in higher unemployment and inequality. We …, tighter credit leads to lower output, lower number of vacancies, and higher directed-search unemployment. Where workers are …
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worker-job complementarity, we estimate how interpersonal, cognitive and manual skills map into job offers, unemployment and …
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