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The un-intended convergence : how the Finnish unemployment reached the European level
Koskela, Erkki; Uusitalo, Roope - 2003
The Finnish unemployment rose in the early 1990 s from three to eighteen percent in four years. Unemployment has then … this unforeseen increase in unemployment. We then discuss the role of labour market institutions in the adjustment process … that has brought unemployment back to normal levels. We argue that these institutions cannot be blamed for the increase in …
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Great moderation at the firm level? : unconditional versus conditional output volatility
Buch, Claudia M. (contributor); Döpke, Jörg (contributor);  … - 2008
Aggregated output in industrialized countries has become less volatile over the past decades. Whether this "Great Moderationʺ can be found in firm level data as well remains disputed. We study the evolution of firm level output volatility using a balanced panel dataset on German firms that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003729690
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Are there business cycles "beyond GDP"? : alternative measures to GDP at business cycle frequencies
Döpke, Jörg; Maschke, Philip - In: Applied economics quarterly 61 (2015) 2, pp. 115-139
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Are there business cycles "beyond GDP"? : alternative measures to GDP at business cycle frequencies ; [conference paper]
Döpke, Jörg; Maschke, Philip - 2014 - This version: February 2014
We discuss properties of alternatives or complements to GDP as a measure of welfare at business cycle frequencies. We argue that these figures are not useful to measure the welfare costs of business cycles. First, data is not available at an appropriate quality and frequency. Second, since the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010480242
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Great moderation at the firm level? : unconditional vs. conditional Output volatility
Buch, Claudia M. (contributor); Döpke, Jörg (contributor);  … - 2008
Aggregated output in industrialized countries has become less volatile over the past decades. Whether this Great Moderationʺ can be found in firm level data as well remains disputed. We study the evolution of firm level output volatility using a balanced panel dataset on German firms that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003720335
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Great Moderation at the Firm Level? Unconditional Versus Conditional Output Volatility
Buch, Claudia M. - 2016
Aggregated output in industrialized countries has become less volatile over the past decades. Whether this ?Great Moderation? can be found in firm level data as well remains disputed. We study the evolution of firm level output volatility using a balanced panel dataset on German firms that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012991121
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Great Moderation at the Firm Level? Unconditional vs. Conditional Output Volatility
Buch, Claudia M. - 2013
Aggregated output in industrialized countries has become less volatile over the past decades. Whether this quot;Great Moderationquot; can be found in firm level data as well remains disputed. We study the evolution of firm level output volatility using a balanced panel dataset on German firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012753581
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Monopoly unions, corporatism and optimal structure of labour taxation
Koskela, Erkki; Vilmunen, Jouko - 1994
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Pollution, factor taxation and unemployment
Koskela, Erkki; Schöb, Ronnie; Sinn, Hans-Werner - 1998
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Optimal Redistributive Taxation and Provision ofPublic Input Goods in an Economy withOutsourcing and Unemployment
Aronsson, Thomas; Koskela, Erkki - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009
unemployment also constitutes an incentive to implement a tax on outsourcing.Without a direct instrument for taxing outsourcing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360634