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Employment and wage adjustments in Euroland's labour market: A bird's eye view
Hofer, Helmut; Pichelmann, Karl - 1999
-setting mechanisms and the cyclicality of unemployment in Euroland. We find that in the 1990s unemployment cyclicality has been higher in … still offer a convincing explanation for a significant part of Euroland's problem of persistently high unemployment. There …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291917
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Establishments dynamics and matching frictions in classical competitive equilibrium
Veracierto, Marcelo - 2007
-wanted ads and an unemployment subsidy, is highly contractionary. However, it leads to large welfare gains. The policy also plays …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292153
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The insider-outsider theory: a survey
Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002
costs influence insider wages and outsiders? opportunities and how these costs affect employment and unemployment. We also … address the more complex, and open, question of how employment and unemployment move through time, in response to labor market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292491
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Clash of career and family: Fertility decisions after job displacement
Del Bono, Emilia; Weber, Andrea; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2008
reduction in fertility is not due to the income loss generated by unemployment but arises because displaced workers undergo a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294029
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Job search methods, intensity and success in Britain in the 1990s
Böheim, René; Taylor, Mark P - 2002
We investigate the use of various job search strategies and their impact on the probability of subsequent employment and the re-employment wage among working age men in Britain. We find that replying to advertisements and using Job Centres are the two most common methods of job search and that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294537
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Taking Public Opinion Seriously: A General Equilibrium Model of Low-Wage Competition, Offshoring, and Unemployment
Arnold, Lutz G.; Trepl, Stefanie - 2011
This paper analyzes a North-South trade model with costly offshoring and equilibrium unemployment due to union wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294747
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Clash of Career and Family: Fertility Decisions after Job Displacement
Bono, Emilia Del; Weber, Andrea; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2008
that the reduction in fertility is not due to the income loss generated by unemployment but arises be- cause displaced …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294850
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Fertility and Economic Instability: The Role of Unemployment and Job Displacement
Bono, Emilia Del; Weber, Andrea; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2011
We study the effect of job displacement on fertility in a sample of white collar women in Austria. Using instrumental variables methods we show that unemploy- ment incidence as such has no negative effect on fertility decisions, but the very fact of being displaced from a career-oriented job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294869
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Unemployment and employment protection in a unionized economy with search frictions
Stähler, Nikolai - 2007
In theoretical literature, the effects of employment protection on unemployment are ambiguous. Higher employment … can unambiguously increase unemployment. Interestingly, I find that tightening the restrictions on redundancies and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295841
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A Test of the 'Krugman Hypothesis' for the United States, Britain, and Western Germany
Puhani, Patrick A. - 2003
Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment … large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297281