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Gender and education gaps in employment : new evidence for the EU
Gökten, Meryem; Heimberger, Philipp; Arsenev, Aleksandr; … - 2024
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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Labor market and macroeconomic dynamics in Latin America amid COVID : the role of digital adoption policies
Finkelstein Shapiro, Alan; Nuguer, Victoria - 2022
, greater average firm productivity, a larger formal employment share, and a marginally lower unemployment rate. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014496287
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A Beveridge curve decomposition for Austria : what drives the unemployment rate?
Christl, Michael - 2019
the Beveridge curve in Austria. We find empirical evidence to confirm that the increase in the unemployment rate in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011962116
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How far from full employment? : the European unemployment problem revisited
Gökten, Meryem; Heimberger, Philipp; Lichtenberger, Andreas - 2024
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014507179
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Unemployment, firm dynamics, and the business cycle
Colciago, Andrea; Fasani, Stefano; Rossi, Lorenza - 2020
We formulate and estimate a business cycle model which can account for key business cycle properties of labor market variables and other aggregates. Three features distinguish our model from the standard model with Search And Matching (SAM) frictions in the labor market: frictional firm entry,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012316009
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Macroprudential policy and labor market dynamics in Latin America
Finkelstein Shapiro, Alan; González Gomez, Andrés - 2015
volatility, but generates substantially higher unemployment fluctuations in response to productivity shocks. Moreover, the policy … unemployment dynamics. The findings point to potential gains from policy complementarities between macroprudential regulation and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011290968
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Firm entry and exit during recessions
Ayres, Joao; Raveendranathan, Gajendran - 2021
We analyze shocks to productivity, collateral constraint (credit shock), firm operation, and labor disutility in a model of firm dynamics with entry and exit. Shocks to firm operation and labor disutility capture COVID-19 lockdowns. Compared to the productivity shock, the credit and the lockdown...
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Firm exit during recessions
Ayres, Joao; Raveendranathan, Gajendran - 2020
We analyze a general equilibrium model of firm dynamics to study the effects of shocks to productivity, labor wedge, and collateral constraint (credit shock) on firm exit. We find that only the credit shock increases firm exit. This result is robust to the magnitude of shocks and different model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012238357
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How should unemployment insurance vary over the business cycle?
Birinci, Serdar; See, Kurt - 2019
We study optimal unemployment insurance (UI) over the business cycle using a heterogeneous agent job search model with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012137069
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Fintech entry, firm financial inclusion, and macroeconomic dynamics in emerging economies
Finkelstein Shapiro, Alan; Mandelman, Federico S.; … - 2022
Financial inclusion is strikingly low in emerging economies. In only a few years, financial technologies (fintech) have led to a dramatic expansion in the number of non-traditional credit intermediaries, but the macroeconomic and credit-market implications of this rapid growth of fintech are not...
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