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The short-run and long-run effects of decentralizing public employment services
Weber, Michael - 2016
A German policy experiment from 2012 allows me to identify the short-run and longruncausal effects of decentralization on the placement efficiency of public employmentservices (PES). I exploit variation over time and across districts with different types ofPES in a difference-in-differences...
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Are Unemployment Rates in OECD Countries Stationary? Evidence from Univariate and Panel Unit Root Tests
Khraief, Naceur; Shahbaz, Muhammad; Heshmati, Almas; … - 2015
This paper revisits the dynamics of unemployment rate for 29 OECD countries over the period of 1980-2013. Numerous … empirical studies of the dynamics of unemployment rate are carried out within a linear framework. However, unemployment rate can … time series exhibits nonlinear behaviour. Our empirical findings provide significant evidence in favour of unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011420751
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Collective Bargaining Systems and Macroeconomic and Microeconomic Flexibility: The Quest for Appropriate Institutional Forms in Advanced Economies
Addison, John T. - 2015
This paper addresses the design of the machinery of collective bargaining from the perspective of the needs of microeconomic and macroeconomic flexibility. In the former context, greater attention is given over to enterprise flexibility than external adjustment. In the latter context, close...
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Wage Rigidities in Colombia: Measurement, Causes, and Policy Implications
Agudelo, Sonia A.; Sala, Hector - 2017
unemployment was relatively slow with respect to sustained economic growth. Following Holden and Wulfsberg (2009), we compute a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653397
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The Unemployment Impact of Product and Labour Market Regulation: Evidence from European Countries
Piton, Céline; Rycx, Francois - 2018
This paper provides robust estimates of the impact of both product and labour market regulations on unemployment using … set of covariates, results show that product market deregulation overall reduces the unemployment rate. This finding is … effect: deregulation of state controls and in particular involvement in business operations tends to push up the unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011873586
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The unemployment impact of product and labour market regulation: Evidence from European countries
Piton, Céline - 2018
This paper provides a robust estimation of the impact of both product and labour market regulations on unemployment … various covariates, results show that product market deregulation overall reduces unemployment rate. This finding is robust to …: deregulation of State controls and in particular involvement in business operations tends to push up the unemployment rate. Labour …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011902269
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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...
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Unemployment impact of product and labor market regulation: Evidence from European countries
Piton, Céline; Rycx, François - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 9 (2019) 1, pp. 1-32
This paper provides robust estimates of the impact of both product and labor market regulations on unemployment using … set of covariates, results show that product market deregulation overall reduces the unemployment rate. This finding is … effect: deregulation of state controls and in particular involvement in business operations tend to push up the unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012290405
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Estimating Equilibrium Effects of Job Search Assistance
Gautier, Pieter; Muller, Paul; van der Klaauw, Bas; … - 2012
Randomized experiments provide policy relevant treatment effects if there areno spillovers between participants and nonparticipants. We show that thisassumption is violated for a Danish activation program for unemployed workers.Using a difference-in-difference model we show that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326233
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Estimating equilibrium effects of job search assistance
Gautier, Pieter; Muller, Paul; van der Klaauw, Bas; … - 2012
Randomized experiments provide policy relevant treatment effects if there are no spillovers between participants and nonparticipants. We show that this assumption is violated for a Danish activation program for unemployed workers. Using a difference-in-difference model we show that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287653