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Skill wage premia, employment, and cohort effects: are workers in Germany all of the same type?
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Kohn, Karsten - 2006
-specific unemployment rates in 1997. The required nominal wage reductions range from 8.8 to 12.2% and are the higher the lower the employees …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297815
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The Swedish Youth Labor Market in Boom and Depression
Edin, Per-Anders; Forslund, Anders; Holmlund, Bertil - 1998
increases in youth unemployment and youth participation in active labor market programs. The impact on unemployment rates by age … and education has been roughly proportional, however. The evolution of employment and unemployment does not offer much … ground for the popular hypothesis that the recent rise in unemployment is driven by large and pervasive shifts in the demand …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321785
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Canadian labour market dynamics during COVID-19
Jones, Stephen R. G.; Lange, Fabian; Riddell, William Craig - 2021
stock and flow data to understand key developments. We find dramatic changes in employment, unemployment and labour market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012592551
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Education Driving the Rise in Dutch Female Employment: Explanations for the Increase in Part-time Work and Female Employment in the Netherlands, Contrasted with Germany
Schettkat, Ronald; Yocarini, Lara - 2001
Over the last 15 years, the Netherlands has experienced a tremendous jobs boom, mainly in services and female employment. This has often been related to changes in the Dutch institutional environment. Using a model which allows for direct utility of work, we find that institutional arrangements...
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Labour market dynamics in Germany: hirings, separations, and job-to-job transitions over the business cycle
Bachmann, Ronald - 2005
increased flow into unemployment in a recession is mainly due to reduced hirings, and hence lower job-to-job transitions, rather …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263604
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The importance of two-sided heterogeneity for the cyclicality of labour market dynamics
Bachmann, Ronald; David, Peggy - 2009
Using two data sets derived from German administrative data, including a linked employer-employee data set, we investigate the cyclicality of worker and job flows. The analysis stresses the importance of two-sided labour market heterogeneity in this context, taking into account both observed and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263763
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The Importance of Two-Sided Heterogeneity for the Cyclicality of Labour Market Dynamics
Bachmann, Ronald; David, Peggy - 2009
Using two data sets derived from German administrative data, including a linked employer-employee data set, we investigate the cyclicality of worker and job flows.The analysis stresses the importance of two-sided labour market heterogeneity in this context, taking into account both observed and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265775
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Large employers are more cyclically sensitive
Moscarini, Giuseppe; Postel-Vinay, Fabien - 2009
We provide new evidence that large firms or establishments are more sensitive than small ones to business cycle conditions. Larger employers shed proportionally more jobs in recessions and create more of their new jobs late in expansions, both in gross and net terms. The differential growth rate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269006
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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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The importance of two-sided heterogeneity for the cyclicality of labour market dynamics
Bachmann, Ronald; David, Peggy - 2009
Using two data sets derived from German administrative data, including a linked employer-employee data set, we investigate the cyclicality of worker and job °ows. The analysis stresses the importance of two-sided labour market heterogeneity in this context, taking into account both observed and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010300686