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Does the unemployment invariance hypothesis hold for Canada?
Tansel, Aysıt; Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin; Aksoy, Emre - 2016
This article explores the long-run relationship between unemployment rate and labor force participation rate in Canada … leads us to doubt the pertinence of the unemployment invariance hypothesis for Canada. This is consistent with the empirical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011528837
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Structural estimation of search intensity : do non-employed workers search enough?
Gautier, Pieter; Moraga-González, José Luis; … - 2007
We present a structural framework for the evaluation of public policies intended to increase job search intensity. Most of the literature defines search intensity as a scalar that influences the arrival rate of job offers; here we treat it as the number of job applications that workers send out....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011372979
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Does unemployment invariance hypothesis hold for Canada?
Tansel, Aysıt; Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin; Aksoy, Emre - 2016
This article explores the long-run relationship between unemployment rate and labor force participation rate in Canada … leads us to doubt the pertinence of the unemployment invariance hypothesis for Canada. This is consistent with the empirical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011534303
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The right man for the job
Teulings, Coen N.; Gautier, Pieter - 2000
decreasing in the substitutability of worker types. This cost of search is then decomposed into three components: unemployment … workers being more choosy. The resulting equilibrium is not efficient. Unemployment benefits can reduce the loss by serving as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011303299
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Labour market dynamics in Australia : what drives unemployment?
Karanassou, Marika (contributor); Sala, Hector (contributor) - 2009
causes of the unemployment upturn in 1973-1983 and the subsequent decline in 1993-2006. Our results show that (i) the main … determinants of the unemployment rise in the 1970s and early 1980s were wage-push factors, the two oil price shocks and the … increase in interest rates, and (ii) the acceleration in capital accumulation was the crucial driving force of unemployment in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793964
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Labour market dynamics in Australia : what drives unemployment
Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector - 2009
causes of the unemployment upturn in 1973-1983 and the subsequent decline in 1993-2006. Our results show that (i) the main … determinants of the unemployment rise in the 1970s and early 1980s were wage-push factors, the two oil price shocks and the … increase in interest rates, and (ii) the acceleration in capital accumulation was the crucial driving force of unemployment in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003799513
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The rise and fall of Spanish unemployment : a chain reaction theory perspective
Karanassou, Marika (contributor); Sala, Hector (contributor) - 2008
The evolution of Spanish unemployment has been quite idiosyncratic. The full-employment levels of the early seventies … were followed by unemployment rates that were the highest within the OECD countries in the aftermath of the oil price … shocks. While unemployment was extremely persistent in most of the eighties and nineties, it experienced its sharpest decline …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003765970
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Does unemployment invariance hypothesis hold for Canada?
Tansel, Aysıt; Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin; Aksoy, Emre - 2016
This article explores the long-run relationship between unemployment rate and labor force participation rate in Canada … leads us to doubt the pertinence of the unemployment invariance hypothesis for Canada. This is consistent with the empirical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011558505
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On-the-job search and sorting
Gautier, Pieter; Teulings, Coen N.; Vuuren, Aico van - 2005
This paper characterizes the equilibrium for a large class of search models with two-sided heterogeneity and on-the-job search. Besides the well-known congestion externalities, we show that on-the-job search in combination with monopsonistic wage setting without commitment creates a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346489
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Are labor force participation rates really non-stationary? : evidence from three OECD countries
Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin; Balcilar, Mehmet; Tansel, Aysıt - 2012
unemployment rates about the behavior of labor markets and the causes of joblessness are useful. -- Labor Force Participation Rates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009577020