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Business cycle asymmetries and the labor market
Kohlbrecher, Britta; Merkl, Christian - 2016 - First version: April 2015. This version: February 2016
density function with higher density and thereby generate large, asymmetric job-finding rate and unemployment reactions. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011444082
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Business cycle asymmetries and the labor market
Kohlbrecher, Britta; Merkl, Christian - 2016
density function with higher density and thereby generate large, asymmetric job-finding rate and unemployment reactions. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011455340
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Business cycle asymmetries and the labor market
Kohlbrecher, Britta; Merkl, Christian - 2016 - This Version: February 2016
density function with higher density and thereby generate large, asymmetric job-finding rate and unemployment reactions. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011447126
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Business cycle asymmetries and the labor market
Kohlbrecher, Britta; Merkl, Christian - 2022
This paper shows that a search and matching model with idiosyncratic training cost shocks can explain the asymmetric movement of the job-finding rate over the business cycle and the decline of matching efficiency in recessions. Large negative aggregate shocks move the hiring cutoff into a part...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013185150
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The wage curve after the Great Recession
Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex; Spurling, Jackson - 2022
Most economists maintain that the labor market in the United States (and elsewhere) is 'tight' because unemployment … rates are low and the Beveridge Curve (the vacancies-to-unemployment ratio) is high. They infer from this that there is … stagnant for some time. We show that unemployment is not key to understanding wage formation in the USA and hasn't been since …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013342929
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Youth unemployment in Greece: Measuring the challenge
Bell, David N. F.; Blanchflower, David G. - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 4 (2015) 1, pp. 1-25
A historically high level of youth unemployment presents Greece with a huge social and economic challenge. This paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409613
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What should be done about rising unemployment in the UK?
Bell, David N.F.; Blanchflower, David G. - 2009
This paper considers the issue of unemployment one of the most pressing issues facing the UK and other governments, as … unemployment among the young and other disadvantaged groups, is typical of past experience. The paper reviews past literature on … the causes of unemployment, arguing that the origin of the present difficulties lies with a collapse in demand rather than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271223
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Youth unemployment in Greece : measuring the challenge
Bell, David N. F.; Blanchflower, David G. - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 4 (2015) 1, pp. 1-25
A historically high level of youth unemployment presents Greece with a huge social and economic challenge. This paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010533317
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What should be done about rising unemployment in the UK?
Bell, David N. F.; Blanchflower, David G. - 2009
This paper considers the issue of unemployment one of the most pressing issues facing the UK and other governments, as … unemployment among the young and other disadvantaged groups, is typical of past experience. The paper reviews past literature on … the causes of unemployment, arguing that the origin of the present difficulties lies with a collapse in demand rather than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003817753
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What Should Be Done About Rising Unemployment in the UK?
Bell, David N.F. - 2009
This paper considers the issue of unemployment one of the most pressing issues facing the UK and other governments, as … unemployment among the young and other disadvantaged groups, is typical of past experience. The paper reviews past literature on … the causes of unemployment, arguing that the origin of the present difficulties lies with a collapse in demand rather than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764644