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On the Effects of Career Choice: Matching Efficiency of Different Occupations and Education Levels
Fahr, René; Sunde, Uwe - International Conferences on Panel Data - 2002
This paper investigates the differences in the matching process of job seekers and vacancies to be filled between different educational and occupational groups. To investigate this issue, matching functions are estimated across different occupations and educational cohorts, that is, on an even...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005345815
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Employment Adjustment and Part-Time Jobs : The U.S. and the U.K. In the Great Recession
Borowczyk-Martins, Daniel - 2016
We document that fluctuations in part-time employment play a major role in movements in hours per worker, especially during cyclical swings in the labor market. Building on this result, we propose a novel representation of the intensive margin based on a stock-flow framework. The evolution of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012995588
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The Effect of Shocks to Labour Market Flows on Unemployment and Participation Rates
Dixon, Robert John; Lim, Guay C.; van Ours, Jan C. - 2014
interact and affect the evolution of unemployment rates and participation rates, the two main indicators of labour market … performance. Our analysis has two special features. First, apart from the two labour market states - employment and unemployment … that a shock to the net flow from unemployment to employment drive the unemployment rate and the participation rate in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014145426
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Chapter 7. Search in Macroeconomic Models of the Labor Market
Rogerson, Richard; Shimer, Robert - In: Handbook of labor economics : volume 4, part A, (pp. 619-700). 2011
This chapter assesses how models with search frictions have shaped our understanding of aggregate labor market outcomes in two contexts: business cycle fluctuations and long-run (trend) changes. We first consolidate data on aggregate labor market outcomes for a large set of OECD countries. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025126
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Okun's Law, Development, and Demographics : Differences in the Cyclical Sensitivities of Unemployment Across Economy and Worker Groups
An, Zidong; Bluedorn, John C.; Ciminelli, Gabriele - 2022
The negative and stable relationship between an economy’s aggregate demand conditions and overall unemployment is well …-documented. We show that there is a large degree of heterogeneity in the cyclical sensitivities of unemployment across worker and … economy groups. First, unemployment is more than twice as sensitive to aggregate demand in advanced as in emerging market and …
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Decomposing the Ins and Outs of Cyclical Unemployment
Bachmann, Ronald - 2012
role for the cyclicality of the unemployment outflow rate, although the contribution of the duration of unemployment is … significant. In contrast, composition effects dampen the cyclicality of the unemployment inflow rate considerably. We further … observe that the initially positive contribution of composition effects to a higher unemployment outflow rate turns negative …
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A Test of the ‘Krugman Hypothesis’ for the United States, Britain, and Western Germany
Puhani, Patrick A. - School of Economics and Political Science, Universität … - 2003
Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment … large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005797652
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How Important Are Labor Market Institutions for Labor Market Performance in Transition Countries?
Lehmann, Hartmut; Muravyev, Alexander - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper offers a first comprehensive study of the relationship between labor market institutions and policies and … documents the evolution of labor market institutions and policies in the transition region. The data show a clear trend towards … test several predictions concerning the role of institutions and polices in explaining labor market outcomes. The results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008496995
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A Test of the 'Krugman Hypothesis' for the United States, Britain, and Western Germany
Puhani, Patrick A. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2003
Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment … large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097817
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The Applicability of the Sectoral Shift Hypothesis in the Netherlands
Loo, Ivo De - In: Journal of Applied Economics III (2000) May, pp. 57-69
shift hypothesis are the most important in explaining Dutch unemployment behavior during the postwar period. This means that … cyclical unemployment in the Netherlands can be viewed as a fluctuation of the natural rate of unemployment. …
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