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Oil Price Shocks and Labor Market Fluctuations

Ordóñez, Javier; Sala, Hector; Silva, José I. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

We examine the impact of real oil price shocks on labor market flows in the U.S. We first use smooth transition regression (STR) models to investigate to what extent oil prices can be considered as a driving force of labor market fluctuations. Then we develop and calibrate a modified version of...

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Oil price shocks and labor market fluctuations

Ordóñez, Javier; Sala, Hector; Silva, José I. - Departament d'Economia Aplicada, Universitat Autònoma … - 2010

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Revisiting the matching function

Kohlbrecher, Britta; Merkl, Christian; Nordmeier, Daniela - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2014

these two features combined generate an equilibrium comovement between matches on the one hand and unemployment and …

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Deconstructing Structural Unemployment

Schmitt, John; Warner, Kris - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2011

Some economic observers argue “structural unemployment” has increased in the wake of the Great Recession, but in this … paper we find little support for either of two arguments that suggest that structural unemployment has been on the rise. The … first argument focuses on the large increase in unemployment among construction workers. The second argument is that falling …

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Le marché du travail dans la crise : un cadrage statistique

Marchand, Olivier; Minni, Claude - In: Revue de l'OFCE n° 115 (2010) 4, pp. 63-80

same which knows more the precarious employment, the underemployment and the recurrent unemployment. Moreover, one observes …

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Job Vacancies in Colombia: 1976-2012

Álvarez, Andrés; Hofstetter, Marc - UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES-CEDE - 2013

Based on the counting of Help-wanted advertisements in print newspapers, we present national vacancy indexes and vacancy rates for Colombia. These series will allow tackling a myriad of questions related to the functioning of the labor markets in emerging economies, where such datasets were not...

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