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Whodunnit? Changes in the relative demand for unskilled and skilled labor
Schimmelpfennig, Axel - 1999
relative wage of the skilled. Increasing unemployment results only for a restrictive assumption about labor market rigidities. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333017
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Comparisons and contrasts of the impact of the crisis on euro area labour markets
Anderton, Robert; Jarvis, Valerie; Szörfi, Béla; … - 2015
persisting increases in unemployment. This paper analyses the impacts of the crisis on euro area labour markets, paying … accelerate the adjustment capacity of euro area labour markets and help reduce the current high levels of structural unemployment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011606311
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The current economic and financial crisis: a gender perspective
Antonopoulos, Rania - 2009
Widespread economic recessions and protracted financial crises have been documented as setting back gender equality and other development goals in the past. In the midst of the current global crisisoften referred to as the Great Recession"there is grave concern that progress made in poverty...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266534
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Estimates of the Non-accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemployment (NAIRU) for Hungary
Szabó, Lajos Tamás - 2015
inflation. Among other things, the unemployment gap, which is the difference between unemployment rate and non …-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment (NAIRU), is used to measure inflationary pressure from the labour market. This paper examines … revisional property of the NAIRU is also examined, as well as the forecast capacity of the unemployment gap with regard to wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011537070
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Whodunnit? Changes in the Relative Demand for Unskilled and Skilled Labor
Schimmelpfennig, Axel - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1999
relative wage of the skilled. Increasing unemployment results only for a restrictive assumption about labor market rigidities. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755135
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Asymmetric labor force participation decisions over the business cycle: Evidence from US microdata
Hotchkiss, Julie L.; Robertson, John C. - 2006
unemployment rates. Using U.S. data, we find that individual labor force participation responds asymmetrically to changes in local … labor market conditions, consistent with the pattern of movements in the aggregate unemployment rate. Differences in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292322
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Unemployment, Labor Market Transitions, and Residual Wage Dispersion
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Garloff, Alfred - 2005
It is commonplace in the debate on Germany?s labor market problems to argue that high unemployment and low wage … dispersion are related. This paper analyses the relationship between unemployment and residual wage dispersion for individuals … unemployment. A competing view regards wage dispersion as the outcome of search frictions and the associated monopsony power of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297414
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Descriptive Evidence on Labor Market Transitions and the Wage Structure in Germany
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Garloff, Alfred - 2005
Equilibrium search theory suggests that the wage distribution in a cross section of workers is closely related to labor market transitions and associated wage changes. Accordingly, job?to?job transitions are central in explaining the wage distribution. This paper uses the IAB employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297507
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Unequal distribution of salary from a gender perspective and the impact of recession on the catalan labor market
Adillón, M.Jesús Gómez; Piqué, M.Àngels Cabasés - 2014
In order to highlight the uneven impact of recession on the labor market in Catalonia (Spain), especially regarding wage structure, this study examines the evolution of its main variables in the period 2005-2012 from a gender perspective. For ten years prior to recession, female employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011399918
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Impact of privatization on employment and earnings
Earle, John S. - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)
Conventional wisdom and prevailing economic theory hold that the new owners of a privatized firm will cut jobs and wages. But this ignores the possibility that new owners will expand the firm's scale, with potentially positive effects on employment, wages, and productivity. Evidence generally...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404917