Showing 1 - 10 of 1,586
revisional property of the NAIRU is also examined, as well as the forecast capacity of the unemployment gap with regard to wages … perspective, because the vast majority of estimates in the literature use wages to provide an estimate of the unemployment gap …. Therefore, an indicator which does not use wages at all to estimate the unemployment gap performs the best in forecasting wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011399270
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010512305
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010519908
the quality of the work found by the unemployed. This quality rise, in terms of both wages and duration, can be achieved …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011416465
This study analyzes the educational attainment and early labor market outcomes of young migrants from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) who arrived in Germany between 1989 and 1994. The results reveal that migrants have lower educational attainments than natives, and that within the group of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009771160
This paper documents and analyses the predominance of informal employment in Africa and shows that lack of demand for labour rather than worker characteristics is the main reason for pervasive underemployment. Integration into the global economy and exports of labour-intensive products are vital...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010230912
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010346612
education shows positive effects for the unemployed with respect to both the employment probability and wages. To explain the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010251042
We present a new and simple empirical methodology to identify relative wage rigidity dynamics. The methodology is applied to data from the Polish Labour Force Survey for the period 1994 to 1998. We estimate ceteris paribus changes in relative wage and unemployment differentials for various...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011445051
Low-wage employment has become an important feature of the labor market and a controversial topic for debate in many countries. How to interpret the prominence of lowpaid jobs and whether they are beneficial to workers or society is currently an open question. The answer depends on whether...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011507208