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Euro-Productivity and Euro-Jobs Since the 1960s : Which Institutions Mattered?
Allard, Gayle J. - 2008
productivity. The welfare state's tax-based social transfers and even unemployment benefits have not clearly harmed employment or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012726255
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Labour supply and employment in the euro area countries - developments and challenges
Masuch, Klaus (contributor);  … - European System of Central Banks / Monetary Policy … - 2008
The aim of this report, which has been prepared by a Task Force of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Eurosystem, is to describe and analyse the main developments in labour supply and its determinants in the euro area, review the links between labour supply and labour market institutions,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011641224
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Local Social Capital and Geographical Mobility : Some Empirics and a Conjecture on the Nature of European Unemployment
David, Quentin; Janiak, Alexandre; Wasmer, Etienne - 2021
factor behind high unemployment when jobless people prefer to remain in their home region rather than to go prospecting in …, which appears to be a strong factor of immobility. It is also a fairly large factor of unemployment when social capital is … Europe they tend to invest in more general types of social capital, we argue that part of the European unemployment puzzle …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325000
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Why does unemployment hurt the employed? : Evidence from the life satisfaction gap between the public and private sectors
Lüchinger, Simon (contributor); Meier, Stephan (contributor) - 2008
High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population in terms of reduced subjective well … sensitivity of subjective well-being to fluctuations in unemployment rates is much lower in the public sector than in the private … unemployment. -- unemployment ; life satisfaction ; job security ; public sector …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003713639
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Why does unemployment hurt the employed? : evidence from the life satisfaction gap between the public and the private sector
Lüchinger, Simon (contributor); Meier, Stephan (contributor) - 2008
High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population in terms of reduced subjective well … sensitivity of subjective well-being to fluctuations in unemployment rates is much lower in the public sector than in the private … unemployment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003667024
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Employment and wage adjustments in Euroland's labour market : a bird's eye view
Hofer, Helmut; Pichelmann, Karl - 1999
-setting mechanisms and the cyclicality of unemployment in Euroland. We find that in the 1990s unemployment cyclicality has been higher in … still offer a convincing explanation for a significant part of Euroland's problem of persistently high unemployment. There …. -- unemployment ; wage-setting mechanisms ; European Monetary Union …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009712936
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Real wage rigidities, fiscal policy, and the stability of EMU in the transition phase
Berthold, Norbert - 1998
EMU, e.g. due to further rising unemployment, become too large to bear. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010496610
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The Impact of Health on Wages : Evidence from Europe Before and During the Great Recession
Flores, Manuel - 2015
This paper adds to the empirical literature of health as a potential endogenous explanatory variable in wage equations by addressing problems such as unobserved heterogeneity, sample selection and measurement error (in the health variable) in one comprehensive framework. Moreover, by using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013017023
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Housing and the Labor Market : Time to Move and Aggregate Unemployment
Rupert, Peter - 2015
The Mortensen-Pissarides model with unemployment benefits and taxes has been able to account for the variation in … unemployment rates across countries but does not explain why geographical mobility is very low in some countries (on average, three … times lower in Europe than in the U.S.). We build a model in which both unemployment and mobility rates are endogenous. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039503
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Why Does Unemployment Hurt the Employed? Evidence from the Life Satisfaction Gap between the Public and Private Sectors
Luechinger, Simon - 2011
High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population in terms of reduced subjective well … sensitivity of subjective well-being to fluctuations in unemployment rates is much lower in the public sector than in the private … unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012714191