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Labour market transitions, shocks and institutions in turbulent times : a cross-country analysis

Bachmann, Ronald; Felder, Rahel - 2018

Blanchard and Wolfers (2000) to analyse the role of the interaction of macroeconomic shocks and labour market institutions for … of the unemployment rate and of worker transitions. …

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Asymmetric labor force participation decisions over the business cycle : evidence from US microdata

Hotchkiss, Julie L. (contributor); … - 2006

unemployment rates. Using U.S. data, we find that individual labor force participation responds asymmetrically to changes in local … labor market conditions, consistent with the pattern of movements in the aggregate unemployment rate. Differences in the …. -- Asymmetric labor force participation decision ; unemployment rate ; business cycle ; gender ; education ; age …

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Social security, labour market and restructuring : current situation and expected outcomes of reforms

Góra, Marek; Kula, Grzegorz; Rokicka, Magdalena; … - 2009

The paper focuses on the social safety nets in Russian Federation and Ukraine in the view of changes on the labour market since the beginning of economic transition. We showed that many past phenomena (e.g. restructuring of the economy, wage and pension arrears, new groups at-risk-of-poverty,...

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Are labor force participation rates really non-stationary? : evidence from three OECD countries

Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin; Balcilar, Mehmet; Tansel, Aysıt - 2012

unemployment rates about the behavior of labor markets and the causes of joblessness are useful. -- Labor Force Participation Rates …

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Are labor force participation rates really non-stationary? : evidence from three OECD countries

Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin; Balcilar, Mehmet; Tansel, Aysıt - 2012

unemployment rates about the behavior of labor markets and the causes of joblessness are useful. -- Labor Force Participation Rates …

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Employment and output dynamics in a model with social interactions in labor supply

Başkaya, Yusuf Soner; Kilinç̦, Mustafa - 2010

A particular challenge for the macroeconomic models is their inability to match the joint dynamics of employment, wage and output observed in the data. In this paper, we incorporate labor-leisure externalities into a standard model, as supported both by recent empirical studies in labor...

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The importance of two-sided heterogeneity for the cyclicality of labour market dynamics

Bachmann, Ronald; David, Peggy - 2010

unemployment at large firms are generally found to be more cyclical. However, this stylised fact disappears when the composition of …

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On-the-job search and sorting

Gautier, Pieter; Teulings, Coen N.; Vuuren, Aico van - 2005

This paper characterizes the equilibrium for a large class of search models with two-sided heterogeneity and on-the-job search. Besides the well-known congestion externalities, we show that on-the-job search in combination with monopsonistic wage setting without commitment creates a...

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Bullying at school and labour market outcomes

Drydakis, Nick - 2013

This study examines the long-term correlates of bullying in school with aspects of functioning in adult employment outcomes. Bullying is considered and evaluated as a proxy for unmeasured productivity, and a framework is provided that outlines why bullying might affect employment outcomes...

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Working-week flexibility : implications for employment and productivity

Osuna-Padilla, Victoria - 2013

This paper evaluates the implications for employment, productivity and wages of allowing for more flexibility in weekly hours worked introduced in the recent Spanish labour market reform ("the 2012 reform"). A crucial aspect of the model will be the extent to which firms will be able to choose...

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