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Active labour market policies in a recession

Andersen, Torben M.; Svarer, Michael - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 1 (2012), pp. 1-24

A major labour market challenge following the Great Recession is to avoid an increase in long-term unemployment and thus the structural unemployment rate. Active labour market policies may play an important role in this respect. We consider these issues with outset in Denmark which is a country...

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Are the Spanish long-term unemployed unemployable?

Bentolila, Samuel; García-Pérez, J. Ignacio; Jansen, … - In: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 8 (2017) 1, pp. 1-41

Long-term unemployment reached unprecedented levels in Spain in the wake of the Great Recession and it still affects around 57% of the unemployed. We document the sources that contributed to the rise in long-term unemployment and analyze its persistence using state-of-the-art duration models. We...

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The European Labour Markets - Aggregate Unemployment and Relative Wage Rigidities

Pierrard, Olivier; Sneessens, Henri - In: CESifo Forum 05 (2004) 1, pp. 19-23

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Do Extended Unemployment Benefits Lengthen Unemployment Spells? Evidence from Recent Cycles in the U.S. Labor Market

Farber, Henry S.; Valletta, Robert G. - 2013

In response to the Great Recession and sustained labor market downturn, the availability of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits was extended to historical highs in the United States. We exploit variation in the timing and size of UI benefit extensions across states to estimate the overall...

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The Labor Market in the Great Recession: An Update

Elsby, Michael W.L.; Hobijn, Bart; Sahin, Aysegul; … - 2011

Since the end of the Great Recession in mid-2009, the unemployment rate has recovered slowly, falling by only one percentage point from its peak. We find that the lackluster labor market recovery can be traced in large part to weakness in aggregate demand; only a small part seems attributable to...

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The heterogeneity and cyclical sensitivity of unemployment : and exploration of German labour market flows ; the European unemployment problem

Schmidt, Christoph M. - In: CESifo Forum 01 (2000) 1, pp. 17-20

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Teaching macroeconomics after the crisis

Bofinger, Peter - 2011

It is often said that after the crisis economic textbooks have to be rewritten. However, as surveys show, almost all professors continue using the standard IS-LM/AS-AD model as the workhorse for undergraduate training. This paper shows that the IS-LM/AS-AD model is not only full of obvious...

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Long-term unemployment, technical progress and capital mobility in an open growth-matching model

Birk, Angela - 2002

Wie beeinflusst der technische Fortschritt die Langzeitarbeitslosigkeit in einer kleinen geöffneten Ökonomie? Diese … sowohl die Dauer der Arbeitslosigkeit als auch die Langzeitarbeitslosigkeit negativ. In dem Modell wird zusätzlich gezeigt …

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Long-term unemployment and subsidizing vacancies in a growth-matching model

Birk, Angela - 2001

Wie kann die Langzeitarbeitslosigkeit durch geeignete Politikmaßnahmen des Staates reduziert werden? In diesem Artikel … Langzeitarbeitslosigkeit impliziert. Da der positive aus der Vakanzsubventionierung resultierende Substitutionseffekt den negativen … Staat mit Hilfe der Subventionierung von Vakanzen, eine Verringerung der Langzeitarbeitslosigkeit erreichen. …

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Qualification-mismatch and long-term unemployment in a growth-matching model

Birk, Angela - 2001

Wie beeinflusst der technische Fortschritt die Langzeitarbeitslosigkeit? Die Beziehung zwischen … Langzeitarbeitslosigkeit und der Wachstumsrate des technischen Fortschritts wird in einem Wachstums-Matching-Modell mit heterogenen … Arbeitslosen und mit endogen bestimmter Langzeitarbeitslosigkeit, die auf Qualifikationsverlust zurückzuführen ist, analysiert. Für …

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