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From the Shortage of Jobs to the Shortage of Skilled Workers : Labor Markets in the EU New Member States

Rutkowski, Jan - 2021

Labor markets in the transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe underwent a dramatic transformation. Notably … climate and access to global markets associated with the EU accession. For a long time enterprises in transition economies … hire more workers. However, the emerging skills shortages may constrain firm growth. Thus the transition economies face a …

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Turbulence and the employment experience of older workers

Lalé, Etienne - 2016

This paper provides a unified account of the trends in unemployment and labor force participation pertaining to the employment experience of older male workers during the past half-century. We build an equilibrium life-cycle model with labor-market frictions and an operative labor supply margin,...

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How many educated workers for your economy? : European targets, optimal public spending, and labor market impact

Lebon, Isabelle; Rebière, Thérèse - 2015

This paper studies optimal taxation schemes for education in a search-matching model where the labor market is divided between a high-skill and a low-skill sector. Two public policy targets - maximizing the global employment level and optimizing the social surplus - are studied according to...

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Youth unemployment and active labor market policies in Europe

Caliendo, Marco; Schmidl, Ricarda - 2015 - Forthcoming in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2015

Since the economic crisis in 2008, European youth unemployment rates have been persistently high at around 20% on average. The majority of European countries spends significant resources each year on active labor market programs (ALMP) with the aim of improving the integration prospects of...

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Why do Europeans work less than Americans? : public consumption and welfare benefits as a cause of the North-Atlantic divide

Hall, Axel; Gylfi Zoega - 2015

We propose an explanation of why Europeans choose to work fewer hours than Americans and also suffer higher rates of unemployment. Labor market regulations, unemployment benefits, and high levels of public consumption in many European countries reduce, ceteris paribus, the gains from being...

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The lot of the unemployed: a time use perspective

Krueger, Alan B.; Mueller, Andreas - 2008

This paper provides new evidence on time use and subjective well-being of employed and unemployed individuals in 14 countries. We devote particular attention to characterizing and modeling job search intensity, measured by the amount of time devoted to searching for a new job. Job search...

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How do the unemployed search for a job? Evidence from the EU labour force survey

Bachmann, Ronald; Baumgarten, Daniel - 2012

Using harmonized micro data, this paper investigates the job search behaviour of the unemployed in Europe. The analysis focuses on the importance of individual and household characteristics in this context, as well as on cross-country differences in Europe. Our findings suggest that both...

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The lot of the unemployed : a time use perspective

Krueger, Alan B. (contributor); Müller, Andreas (contributor) - 2008

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Do reservation wages really decline? : Some international evidence on the determinants of reservation wages

Addison, John T. (contributor); Centeno, Mário (contributor) - 2008

Using cross-country data, we investigate the determinants of reservation wages and their course over the jobless spell. Higher unemployment benefits lead to higher reservation wages. Further, again consistent with the basic search model, repeated observations on the same individual provide scant...

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Inflation dynamics with labour market matching : assessing alternative specifications

Christoffel, Kai; Costain, James; De Walque, Gregory - 2009

This paper reviews recent approaches to modeling the labour market and assesses their implications for in.ation dynamics through both their effect on marginal cost and on price-setting behaviour. In a search and matching environment, we consider the following modeling setups: right-to-manage...

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