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In this paper we study the structure of labor market flows in Spain and compare them with France and the US. We characterize a number of empirical regularities and stylized facts. One striking result is that the job finding rate is slightly higher than in France, while the jon loss rate is much...
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This paper presents a general-equilibrium model of Innovation, endogenous growth, and unemployment in a disaggregated … economy. Unemployment is analyzed w ithin a dual labor market setting, where the labor market is consisting of a primary high … the economy's growth rate and the equilibrium unemployment rate. It can be shown in comparative static analyses, that the …
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, employment and unemployment in the Greek labor market. More specifically, we study the evolution of flexible forms of employment … unemployment. The main conclusion of the study supports findings of other researches that the significant increase in flexible … working, particularly after 2009, failed to increase employment and reduce unemployment in the Greek labor market. …
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among firms affects simultaneously growth and unemployment. On the one hand, an increase of the elasticity of substitution …
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crowding out, as public sector hiring reduces private employment but the net impact of unemployment is negative. These findings …
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This paper examines the structure of the labour market and unemployment in Sudan. One advantage of our analysis is that … unemployment based on Sudan Central Bureau of Statistics 2010 the Fifth Sudan Population and Housing Census 2008. We explain …, participation rates, economic activities, low skill level and high unemployment rate defined by gender and mode of living in Sudan …
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The present paper studies whether labour market deregulation is correlated with employment creation in Italy and the decline of trade union power. Our hypothesis is that the correlation does not hold, and that flexible contracts facilitated the dichotomy between industry and tertiary, without...
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procyclical unemployment and a positively-sloped Beveridge curve. This paper presents a calibrated model which does indeed … generate countercyclical unemployment and a negatively-sloped Beveridge curve despite the presence of a participation margin. …
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I examine the dynamic evolutions of unemployment, hours of work and the service share since the war in the United … that the very low unemployment in Europe in the 1960s was due to the high productivity growth associated with technological …
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-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 …
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