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The effect of shocks to labour market flows on unemployment and participation rates

Dixon, Robert J.; Lim, Guay C.; Ours, Jan C. van - 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 …

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The effect of shocks to labour market flows on unemployment and participation rates

Dixon, Robert J.; Lim, Guay C.; Ours, Jan C. van - 2014

This paper studies collective contests with endogenous cost sharing, general effort costs and intra-group heterogeneity of prize-valuation. Our objective is to clarify the relationship between cost sharing, intra-group heterogeneity within the competing groups and the elasticity of the marginal...

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Beyond Okun's law : output growth and labor market flows

Lim, Guay C.; Dixon, Robert J.; Ours, Jan C. van - 2018

This paper studies the relationship between the change in the unemployment rate and output growth using an approach …

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Reflections on wage-setting

Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2018

Central banks need to be concerned about wages since they are a major driver of inflation. Rising wages are needed to signal directions for market adjustments to ensure growth. Wage growth is driven by relative scarcity, labor productivity and expectations about inflation and future growth....

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A vibrant European labor market with full employment

Ritzen, Jozef M. M.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 3 (2014) 10, pp. 1-24

We sketch a visionary strategy for Europe in which full employment is quickly regained by 2020, income inequality is reduced and the economies are more sustainable. We call this scenario "vibrant". It is contrasted with what would happen if present policies continue within the European Union...

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Separations at the firm level

Gautier, Pieter; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Ours, Jan C. van - 1999

firms can explain the relatively high level of unemployment amongstlower educated workers and the relatively strong … level of education can notexplain the stronger cyclicality of the unemployment rate for lower educatedworkers. We conclude …

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A vibrant European labor market with full employment

Ritzen, Jozef M. M.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2013

We sketch a visionary strategy for Europe in which full employment is quickly regained by 2020, where income inequality is reduced and the economies are more sustainable. We name this scenario “vibrant.” It is contrasted with what would happen if present policies continue within the European...

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European Labour Mobility: Challenges and Potentials

Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2004

workforce, and (ii) a split labour market that is characterized by high levels of unemployment for low -skilled people and a …

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The effect of shocks to labour market flows on unemployment and participation rates

Dixon, Robert J.; Lim, Guay C.; Ours, Jan C. van - In: Applied economics 47 (2015) 22/24, pp. 2523-2539

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The effect of shocks to labour market flows on unemployment and participation rates

Dixon, Robert J.; Lim, Guay C.; Ours, Jan C. van - 2014

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