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The cyclical behavior of equilibrium unemployment and vacancies across OECD countries
Amaral, Pedro S.; Tasci, Murat - 2014 - This version: November 19, 2013
We show that the inability of a standardly-calibrated labor search-and-matching model to account for labor market volatility extends beyond the U.S. to a set of OECD countries. That is, the volatility puzzle is ubiquitous. We argue cross-country data is helpful in scrutinizing between potential...
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The Beveridge curve and labour market flows : a reinterpretation
Gottfries, Nils; Stadin, Karolina - 2019
unemployment is high. Using monthly panel data for local labour markets in Sweden we find no (or only weak) evidence that high … unemployment makes it easier to fill vacancies. Instead, there are few vacancies when unemployment is high because there is a low … cyclical behaviour of stocks and flows in the labour market also without search frictions. In periods of high unemployment …
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Effects of the minimum wage on US county labor markets
Otterby, Dawn; Crawley, Andrew; Gabe, Todd M. - In: Regional science policy and practice : RSPP 16 (2024) 5, pp. 1-10
This study investigates the impacts of the minimum wage on U.S. regional labor markets. Using ten years of county-level data, we examine the relationship between the minimum wage and several key components of the labor market. Following past research, the number of people in the labor force is...
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Firms' employment dynamics and the state of the labor market
Stadin, Karolina - 2015
According to search and matching theory, a greater availability of unemployed workers should make it easier for a firm to fill a vacancy but more vacancies at other firms should make recruitment more difficult. But what can we say about the expected magnitudes of these effects on firms’...
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The aggregate effects of long run sectoral reallocation
Boeing-Reicher, Claire - 2014
The construction bust which accompanied the Great Recession, and the accompanying need to shift workers across sectors, have provoked a discussion about mismatch and the Beveridge Curve, alongside a discussion about firm-level dispersion. These discussions echo an ongoing discussion about the...
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IABSE-ADIAB : IAB job vacancy survey data linked to administrative data
Lochner, Benjamin - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 244 (2024) 1/2, pp. 159-165
The IABSE-ADIAB dataset provides the linkage between the most recent case of a hire from the IAB Job Vacancy Survey and the administrative data of the hired person. The data comprise the entire working history of persons who were identified as IAB Job Vacancy Survey hires from 2010 to 2020. The...
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Job vacancies in Colombia : 1976 - 2012
Álvarez, Andrés; Hofstetter Gascón, Marcel - In: IZA journal of labor & development 3 (2014), pp. 1-11
between vacancies and unemployment with a structural change-an outward shift-around 1986. …
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Specific Capital and Vintage Effects on the Dynamics of Unemployment and Vacancies
Eyigungor, Burcu - 2019
for only a small portion of the fluctuations in unemployment and vacancies (Shimer (2005a)). In this paper, the author … vintages of entrants are able to account for fluctuations in unemployment and vacancies and that, in this environment, specific …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012706057
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Hours and Employment Implications of Search Frictions : Matching Aggregate and Establishment-Level Observations
Willis, Jonathan L. - 2013
facts concerning the variability of unemployment and vacancies in the aggregate, the distribution of net employment growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012711564
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The Beveridge Curve and Labour Market Flows - a Reinterpretation
Gottfries, Nils - 2019
unemployment is high. Using monthly panel data for local labour markets in Sweden we find no (or only weak) evidence that high … unemployment makes it easier to fill vacancies. Instead, there are few vacancies when unemployment is high because there is a low … cyclical behaviour of stocks and flows in the labour market also without search frictions. In periods of high unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012867870