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Flexibility vs. Rigidity: Does Spain have the worst of both Worlds?
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2000
In this paper we study the structure of labor market flows in Spain and compare them with France and the US. We characterize a number of empirical regularities and stylized facts. One striking result is that the job finding rate is slightly higher than in France, while the job loss rate is much...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262363
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Flexibility vs. rigidity : does Spain have the worst of both worlds?
Saint-Paul, Gilles (contributor) - 2000
, which leads to expectation of reversal. -- Unemployment ; flexibility ; temporary contracts ; unemployment duration … ; unemployment recurrence ; on the job search ; labor force composition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009520500
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Flexibility vs. Rigidity : Does Spain Have the Worst of Both Worlds?
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2000
In this paper we study the structure of labor market flows in Spain and compare them with France and the US. We characterize a number of empirical regularities and stylized facts. One striking result is that the job finding rate is slightly higher than in France, while the job loss rate is much...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014159118
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Flexibility vs. Rigidity: Does Spain have the worst of both Worlds?
Saint-Paul, Gilles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
In this paper we study the structure of labor market flows in Spain and compare them with France and the US. We characterize a number of empirical regularities and stylized facts. One striking result is that the job finding rate is slightly higher than in France, while the jon loss rate is much...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703292
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Are the Unemployed Unemployable?
Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992
may have increased unemployment, and shows that this is likely to occur if technological change is associated with an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666594
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Reassessing labour market reforms : a critique
Junankar, Pramod N.; Jayanthakumaran, Muhunthan - 2014
unemployment in Europe. Using Faccini's data and his estimation methods, we show that the Fixed Effects estimation results collapse … evidence to support the conclusion that greater use of temporary contracts would decrease unemployment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398998
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Hiring and firing costs, adverse selection and long-term unemployment
Kugler, Adriana D.; Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2000
In this paper, we present a matching model with adverse selection that explains why flows into and out of unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325985
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Australia: the miracle economy
Junankar, Pramod N. - 2013
made in terms of several macroeconomic indicators, GDP, Unemployment, Inflation, Current Account Balances, and debt. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009774315
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How rigid are nominal wages? : evidence and implications for Germany
Knoppik, Christoph; Beissinger, Thomas - 2001
lead to higher equilibrium unemployment via the generated real wage wedge. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011403751
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Bismarck versus Beveridge : which unemployment compensation system is more prone to labor market shocks?
Beissinger, Thomas; Büsse, Oliver - 2001
for economies with either an earnings-related or flatrate unemployment compensation system are considered. A distinctive … feature of the analysis is the comparison of both unemployment compensation systems in a two-country setting. It is … demonstrated that the performance of a system with earnings-related or flat-rate unemployment benefits depends on whether the labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011403752