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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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On within-couple time allocation : gendered disparities in paid work and housework in Europe
Tverdostup, Maryna; Sabouniha, Alireza - 2024
This paper aims to pursue a deeper understanding of gendered within-couple allocation of time into paid work and housework in heterosexual dual-earner couples. Relying on the second wave of Harmonised European Time Use Survey (HETUS) data for 10 European countries, we estimate spousal relative...
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Matching, wage rigidities and efficient severance pay
Fella, Giulio - 2012
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009668414
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Job search costs and incentives
Zapechelnyuk, Andriy; Zultan, Ro'i - 2012
The costs of searching for a job vacancy are typically associated with friction that deters or delays employment of potentially productive individuals. We demonstrate that in a labor market with moral hazard where effort is noncontractible, job search costs play a positive role, whose effect may...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009517818
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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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Born under a bad sign : the impact of finishing school when labour markets are weak
Regan, Mark; Roantree, Barra - 2021
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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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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"Google it!" : forecasting the US unemployment rate with a Google job search index
D'Amuri, Francesco; Marcucci, Juri - 2010
the US unemployment rate. We perform a deep out-of-sample forecasting comparison analyzing many models that adopt both our … the GI outperform the traditional ones in predicting the monthly unemployment rate, even in most state-level forecasts and … ; US Unemployment ; Time Series Models …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008702857
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Reservation wages and the wage flexibility puzzle
Koenig, Felix; Manning, Alan; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2016
Wages are only mildly cyclical, implying that shocks to labour demand have a larger short-run impact on unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011446155
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Environment, health and labor market
Pautrel, Xavier - 2017
We re-examine the impact of environmental taxation on health and output, in the presence of labor market frictions. Our main findings are that matching process and wage bargaining introduce new channels of transmission of environmental taxation on the economy such that assuming perfect labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011672535