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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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Product market imperfections and employment dynamics
Carlsson, Mikael; Eriksson, Stefan; Gottfries, Nils - 2011 - rev.
How important is imperfect competition in the product market for employment dynamics? To investigate this, we formulate a theoretical model of employment adjustment with imperfect competition in the product market, search frictions, and convex adjustment costs. From this model, we derive a...
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On the interplay between Keynesian and supply side economics
Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis J. - 2007
largely unexplored, set of determinants of the effectiveness of Keynesian and supply-side economic policies. -- unemployment … ; employment ; wage setting ; labour force participation ; labour market dynamics ; unemployment persistence ; imperfect … unemployment responsiveness …
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The iceberg decomposition: a parsimonious way to map the health of labour markets
Baert, Stijn - 2020
historically focussed on reducing unemployment (the tip of the iceberg), the group of inactive people (below the waterline) is much … larger. Therefore, we point to the clear limitations of the unemployment rate as the (single) key macro-economic indicator of … the health of the labour market. A parsimonious dashboard approach utilising the unemployment-to-population ratio and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012254253
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The iceberg decomposition : a parsimonious way tomap the health of labour markets
Baert, Stijn - 2020
historically focussed on reducing unemployment (the tip of the iceberg), the group of inactive people (below the waterline) is much … larger. Therefore, we point to the clear limitations of the unemployment rate as the (single) key macro-economic indicator of … the health of the labour market. A parsimonious dashboard approach utilising the unemployment-to-population ratio and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012249694
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Labor Force Transition Dynamics : Unemployment Rate or Job Posting Counts?
Shen, Kailing; Zhu, Yanran - 2023
the traditional survey-based unemployment rate versus big-data-based JPCs in capturing labor market transitions in the … predict individuals' transitions between employment and unemployment. Unlike with the unemployment rate, we not only examine … disaggregated levels. Our findings suggest that JPCs and the unemployment rate provide comparable predictive power for labor market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014343849
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The Quality of Industrial Relations and Labour Market Performance
Feldmann, Horst - 2007
relations affects unemployment and employment rates. To measure the quality of industrial relations, we use the results of …, as well as endogeneity, we find that cooperative industrial relations are likely to lower unemployment and to increase …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014055969
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Labor market and macroeconomic dynamics in Latin America amid COVID : the role of digital adoption policies
Finkelstein Shapiro, Alan; Nuguer, Victoria - 2022
, greater average firm productivity, a larger formal employment share, and a marginally lower unemployment rate. …
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The rise in women's labour force participation in Mexico : supply vs demand factors
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Fernández, Manuel - 2021
We estimate the relative importance of alternative labour supply and demand mechanisms in explaining the rise of female labour force participation over the last 55 years in Mexico. The growth of female labour force participation in Mexico between 1960 and 2015 followed an S-shape, with a...
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Can economic pressure overcome social norms? : the case of female labor force participation
Cardoso, Ana Rute; Morin, Louis-Philippe - 2018
We investigate the potential channels that drive female labor force participation to rise in response to unbalanced sex ratios, in the presence of strong social norms against female employment. One such channel is women's desired labor supply, operating through the marriage market, and the other...
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