Showing 1 - 10 of 7,097
models have deeply renewed the understanding of job search, job flows, job creations and destructions, unemployment and wage … optimal level of unemployment benefits, the funding of unemployment insurance and the impact of employment protection …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959848
EPL discourages both. The overall impact on equilibrium unemployment is thus ambiguous, depending on the characteristics … destruction effect is stronger, thus raising the unemployment rate. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825839
relatively minor intervention can dramatically increase the fragility of jobs, the length of unemployment spells, as well as the … extent of unemployment and labor market churning. With institutions of the type studied here common across many different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005826536
This paper assesses Estonia’s flexibility from two angles. The paper focuses on one aspect of that performance—the ability to sustain competitiveness. Then, a more forward-looking angle is the flexibility of Estonia’s labor and product markets. Estonia has made great...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011244007
We examine the drivers of youth unemployment in Poland and Spain, countries where youth have a marginalised labour … market position. We decompose the trends in unemployment rates in 1990-2011. We disentangle the role of prolonging job search … and the impact of dismissals. The contribution of these two factors to the changes in unemployment rates is compared …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010861685
allowing on-the-job search. We obtain that the elasticity of unemployment with respect to growth shrinks from 1.63 to 0 … search process than the unemployed. Thus, we show that, rather than contributing to unemployment, creative destruction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744813
labor market models have a hard time generating the degree of cyclical volatility in unemployment and vacancies that is …, job destruction and unemployment. We start from the reasonable assumption that the disutility of effort (in our case the … the average unemployment rate. It is important to point out that in our paper, incorporating an incentive compatible wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005069525
key variables - unemployment and vacancies - relative to the variation in the shock variables. Shimer identifes the … unemployment and vacancies whilst retaining the standard wage determination process. We set out a model with two important changes … unemployment and vacancy series to match the data; we confirm for the UK that the Mortensen-Pissarides model cannot, as shown by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005022153
The observation that liquidations are concentrated in recessions has long been the subject of controversy. One view holds that liquidations are beneficial in that they result in increased restructuring. Another view holds that liquidations are privately inefficient and essentially wasteful. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666837
Legally mandated reductions in the workweek can be either a constraint on individuals' choice or a tool to coordinate individuals' preferences for lower work hours. We confront these two hypotheses by studying the consequences of the workweek reduction in France from 39 to 35 hours, which was...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005599717