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Accounting for Differences in Labour Market Outcomes in Great Britain : A Regional Analysis Using the Labour Force Survey
O'Leary, Nigel C.; Murphy, Philip D.; Latreille, Paul L.; … - 2005
decomposes regional differences in employment, economic inactivity and unemployment into components due to either structural or …Regional unemployment rates in Great Britain have narrowed dramatically in recent years. However, significant … differences still remain in terms of both employment and economic inactivity rates, which may now better reflect relative labour …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276085
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The impact of the age distribution on unemployment : evidence from US states
Fallick, Bruce; Foote, Christopher L. - 2022 - This version: October 2022
Economists have studied the potential effects of shifts in the age distribution on the unemployment rate for more than … effects on age-specific unemployment rates. This paper uses state-level data to revisit the influence of the age distribution … on unemployment in the United States. We examine demographic effects across the entire age distribution rather than just …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013460008
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The Impact of the Age Distribution on Unemployment : Evidence from US States
Fallick, Bruce; Foote, Christopher L. - 2022
Economists have studied the potential effects of shifts in the age distribution on the unemployment rate for more than … effects on age-specific unemployment rates. This paper uses state-level data to revisit the influence of the age distribution … on unemployment in the United States. We examine demographic effects across the entire age distribution rather than just …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014238011
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Employment to output elasticities & reforms towards flexicurity : evidence from OECD countries
Görg, Holger; Hornok, Cecília; Montagna, Catia; … - 2018
How do labour market policies influence employment's responsiveness to output fluctuations (employment-output elasticity)? We revisit this question on a panel of OECD countries, which also incorporates the period of the Great Recession. We distinguish between passive and active labour market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931530
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Employment to output elasticities & reforms towards flexicurity : evidence from OECD countries
Görg, Holger; Hornok, Cecília; Montagna, Catia; … - 2018
How do labour market policies influence employment's responsiveness to output fluctuations (employment-output elasticity)? We revisit this question on a panel of OECD countries, which also incorporates the period of the Great Recession. We distinguish between passive and active labour market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011951685
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The Impact of the Age Distribution on Unemployment : Evidence from US States
Fallick, Bruce; Foote, Christopher L. - 2022
Economists have studied the potential effects of shifts in the age distribution on the unemployment rate for more than … effects on age-specific unemployment rates. This paper uses state-level data to revisit the influence of the age distribution … on unemployment in the United States. We examine demographic effects across the entire age distribution rather than just …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014243658
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Regional and sectoral evidence of the macroeconomic effects of labor reallocation : a panel data analysis
Bakas, Dimitrios; Panagiōtidēs, Theodōros; Pelloni, … - 2013
This paper re-examines Lilien's sectoral shifts hypothesis for U.S. unemployment. We employ a monthly panel that spans … stationarity of unemployment. Within a framework that takes into account dynamics, parameter heterogeneity and cross …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011730867
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Regional labor markets, network externalities and migration: the case of German reunification
Uhlig, Harald - 2007
, two equilibria can result: one with a high networking rate, high average labor productivity, low unemployment and no … emigration (?West Germany?) and one with a low networking rate, low average labor productivity, high unemployment and a constant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260567
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Do Localised Lockdowns Cause Labour Market Externalities?
Guaitoli, Gabriele; Tochev, Todor - 2021
The business restrictions introduced during the COVID-19 pandemic greatly affected the labour market. However, quantifying their costs is not trivial as local policies affect neighbouring areas through spillovers. Exploiting the U.S. local variation in restrictions and commuting, we estimate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013218389
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The COVID-19 Shock on the Labour Market : Poverty and Inequality Effects across Spanish Regions
Palomino, Juan C.; Rodríguez, Juan Gabriel; Sebastian, … - 2021
We evaluate the distributional consequences of social distancing for the case of Spanish regions. Under 2 months of lockdown plus 10 months of partial functioning our study consistently finds potential wage losses that are sizeable and uneven across the wage distribution all around Spain, but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013241723