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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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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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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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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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No role for the Hartz reforms? : demand and supply factors in the German labor market, 1993-2014
Burda, Michael C.; Seele, Stefanie - 2016
The supply and demand framework of Katz and Murphy (1992) provides new evidence on the source of changes in socially insured full-time and part-time employment in years preceding and following the implementation of the landmark Hartz reforms in Germany. Our findings are consistent with a stable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011437993
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Das deutsche Arbeitsmarktwunder: Eine Bilanz
Burda, Michael C.; Seele, Stefanie - 2017
Dem deutschen Arbeitsmarkt ging es noch nie seit der Wiedervereinigung so gut wie heute. Die nachhaltige Entwicklung seit 2005 ist auf zwei entscheidende Treiber zurückzuführen: die Umverteilung eines beinahe gleichbleibenden Arbeitsstundenvolumens auf mehr Beschäftigte und die massive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011725389
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The German labor market miracle, 2003-2015: An assessment
Burda, Michael C. - 2016
This paper reviews the dramatic and widely noted developments in the German labor market in the past decade and surveys the most plausible reasons for these changes. Alternative hypotheses are compared and contrasted. I argue that the labor market reforms associated with the Agenda 2010 - the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011531881
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No role for the Hartz reforms? Demand and supply factors in the German labor market, 1993-2014
Burda, Michael C.; Seele, Stefanie - 2016
The supply and demand framework of Katz and Murphy (1992) provides new evidence on the source of changes in socially insured full-time and part-time employment in years preceding and following the implementation of the landmark Hartz reforms in Germany. Our findings are consistent with a stable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011531886
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Labor Market Slack and Monetary Policy
Levin, Andrew Theo; Blanchflower, David G. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
conventional measure of the unemployment rate (that is, the number of individuals who are not working at all and actively searching … working part time who want a full-time job) and the extent of hidden unemployment (that is, people who are not actively ….S. labor market slack and show that underemployment and hidden unemployment currently account for the bulk of the U …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011262922
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Das deutsche Arbeitsmarktwunder: Eine Bilanz
Burda, Michael C.; Seele, Stefanie - 2017
Dem deutschen Arbeitsmarkt ging es noch nie seit der Wiedervereinigung so gut wie heute. Die nachhaltige Entwicklung seit 2005 ist auf zwei entscheidende Treiber zurückzuführen: die Umverteilung eines beinahe gleichbleibenden Arbeitsstundenvolumens auf mehr Beschäftigte und die massive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011873622