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In this paper the effects of institutional variables on unemployment are reinvestigated for nine OECD countries. The … unemployment may differ across countries, not only in absolute terms but also in terms of sign. The main results are the following … have a hump-shaped or U-shaped relation to the unemployment rate. All things considered, the results make strong …
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The aim of this paper is to analyze and estimate salient characteristics of unemployment dynamics. Movements in … unemployment are viewed as "chain reactions" of responses to labor market shocks, working their way through systems of interacting … lagged adjustment processes. In the context of estimated labor market systems for Germany, the UK, and the US, we construct …
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The aim of this paper is to analyze and estimate salient characteristics of unemployment dynamics. Movements in … unemployment are viewed as "chain reactions" of responses to labour market shocks, working their way through systems of interacting … lagged adjustment processes. In the context of estimated labour market systems for Germany, the UK, and the US, we construct …
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The aim of this paper is to analyze and estimate salient characteristics of unemployment dynamics. Movements in … unemployment are viewed as "chain reactions" of responses to labor market shocks, working their way through systems of interacting … lagged adjustment processes. In the context of estimated labor market systems for Germany, the UK, and the US, we construct …
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the probabilities of worker flows across employment and unemployment in euro area countries during the period 2000-2015 in …
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Seit ihrem Höhepunkt im Februar 2005 sank die Arbeitslosigkeit in Deutschland innerhalb von drei Jahren von 5 …The number of unemployed workers in Germany decreased dramatically from its peak in February 2005 at over 5.2 million … this episode assume that a worker leaving unemployment moves into full employment. We ask where the unemployed actually …
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In this paper, we quantify the contribution of labor market reforms to unemployment dynamics in nine OECD countries … (Australia, France, Germany, Japan, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States). We build and estimate a … the heterogeneous-worker mechanism proposed by Robin (2011) to explain unemployment volatility by productivity shocks …
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This study examines the potential impact of works councils and unions on the deployment of fixed-term contracts and agency temps. We report inter al. that works councils are associated with a higher number of temporary agency workers when demand volatility is high while the opposite holds for...
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The aim of this paper is to analyze and estimate salient characteristics of unemployment dynamics. Movements in … unemployment are viewed as "chain reactions" of responses to labor market shocks, working their way through systems of interacting … lagged adjustment processes. In the context of estimated labor market systems for Germany, the UK, and the US, we construct …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321310