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How far from full employment? : the European unemployment problem revisited
Gökten, Meryem; Heimberger, Philipp; Lichtenberger, Andreas - 2024
This paper analyses deviations from full employment in EU countries, compared with the US and the UK. We apply the Beveridge (full-employment-consistent) rate of unemployment (BECRU), derived from the unemployment-vacancies relationship. The BECRU is the level of unemployment that minimises the...
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Gender and education gaps in employment : new evidence for the EU
Gökten, Meryem; Heimberger, Philipp; Arsenev, Aleksandr; … - 2024
existing in Eastern and Southern Europe than in Nordic and Continental EU countries. We estimate that closing existing …
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Applications and interviews : a structural analysis of two-sided simultaneous search
Wolthoff, Ronald - 2011
Matching ; Labor Market Frictions ; Structural Estimation ; Efficiency ; Policy Analysis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009379737
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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 rather than wages, at odds with the quantitative predictions of the canonical search model - even if wages are only occasionally renegotiated. We argue that one source of the wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011446155
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The NRU and the evolution of regional disparities in Spanish unemployment
Bande, Roberto; Karanassou, Marika - 2011
analytical framework, which follows the chain reaction theory (CRT) of unemployment and argues that (i) a system of interactive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009232543
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012623701
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Labor market search, informality and schooling investments
Bobba, Matteo; Flabbi, Luca; Levy, Santiago - 2018
This paper develops a search and matching model where firms and workers are allowed to form matches (jobs) that can be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011783896
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Female labor force participation, labor market dynamic, and growth
Bustelo, Monserrat; Flabbi, Luca; Piras, Claudia; … - 2019
The labor force participation of women is lower than the labor force participation of men. This empirical regularity is particularly acute in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). In terms of labor market productivity and growth potential, these lower participation rates constitute a reserve of...
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A Beveridge curve decomposition for Austria : what drives the unemployment rate?
Christl, Michael - 2019
stated that matching efficiency decreased. Using a new decomposition method, combined with detailed labour market flow data …, we are the first to disentangle supply-side, demand-side and matching factors, which could potentially cause a shift in … the shift in the Beveridge curve after 2014 was mainly caused by a decrease in matching efficiency, indicating a rising …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011962116
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Waiting for jobs
Kapoor, Radhicka - 2017
Employment data in India is far from adequate if policy responses have to be more effective and timely. Most employment surveys suffer from drawbacks such as limited data coverage, infrequent data collection and long time lags. To address these gaps and revamp the existing employment data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011747610