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A Non-Parametric Microsimulation Approach to Assess Changes in Inequality and Poverty

Vos, Rob; Sánchez, Marco V. - Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations - 2010

This paper presents a non-parametric microsimulation methodology for assessing the determinants of changes in income inequality and poverty. One great advantage of this method over alternatives is that it is not very demanding in terms of modelling labour supply and household behaviour while...

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Anatomy of the Czech Labour Market:From Over-Employment to Under-Employment in Ten Years?

Flek, Vladislav; Galuscak, Kamil; Gottvald, Jaromir; … - Česká Národní Banka - 2004

in more detail labour flexibility, namely labour market flows, long-term unemployment and labour force deprivation. The … third part addresses wage flexibility and relative wages, with special attention paid to regional unemployment elasticity of … labour mobility, labour deprivation due to long-term unemployment, skill mismatch and emerging signs of inflexibility in wage …

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Skill wage premia, employment, and cohort effects: are workers in Germany all of the same type?

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Kohn, Karsten - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006

-specific unemployment rates in 1997. The required nominal wage reductions range from 8.8 to 12.2% and are the higher the lower the employees …

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Flexibilität der qualifikatorischen Lohnstruktur und Lastverteilung der Arbeitslosigkeit : eine ökonometrische Analyse für Westdeutschland

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Franz, Wolfgang - 1998

Dieser Beitrag nimmt aus theoretischer und ökonometrischer Sicht zu der Kontroverse über die Bedeutung der qualifikatorischen Lohnstruktur zur Erklärung der Beschäftigungsstruktur Stellung. Basierend auf einer Einteilung in drei Qualifikationsgruppen zeigt sich empirisch, dass die Entlohnung...

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Hours worked in Europe and the US : new data, new answers

Bick, Alexander; Brüggemann, Bettina; … - 2016

We use national labor force surveys from 1983 through 2011 to construct hours worked per person on the aggregate level and for different demographic groups for 18 European countries and the US. We find that Europeans work 19% fewer hours than US citizens. Differences in weeks worked and in the...

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Hours worked in Europe and the US : new data, new answers

Bick, Alexander; Brüggemann, Bettina; … - 2016

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Structural estimation of search intensity : do non-employed workers search enough?

Gautier, Pieter; Moraga-González, José Luis; … - 2007

We present a structural framework for the evaluation of public policies intended to increase job search intensity. Most of the literature defines search intensity as a scalar that influences the arrival rate of job offers; here we treat it as the number of job applications that workers send out....

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Employment adjustment and part-time jobs : the U.S. and the U.K. in the Great Recession

Borowczyk-Martins, Daniel; Lalé, Etienne - 2016

We document that fluctuations in part-time employment play a major role in movements in hours per worker, especially during cyclical swings in the labor market. Building on this result, we propose a novel representation of the intensive margin based on a stock-flow framework. The evolution of...

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The ins and outs of involuntary part-time employment

Borowczyk-Martins, Daniel; Lalé, Etienne - 2018

We develop an adjustment procedure to construct U.S. monthly time series of involuntary part-time employment stocks and flows from 1976 until today. Armed with these new data, we provide a comprehensive account of the dynamics of involuntary part-time work. Transitions from full-time to...

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Turbulence and the employment experience of older workers

Lalé, Etienne - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 9 (2018) 2, pp. 735-784

depreciation upon job loss—and its interaction with labor market institutions. We have three main results, based on a life … between turbulence and institutions explains most of the reduction in labor force participation among older workers in Europe … over this period, but ultimately explains little of the rise in unemployment. Third, only a small share of the increase in …

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