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The Incidence and Persistence of Cyclical Job Loss in New Zealand

Maré, Dave C.; Fabling, Richard - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

cyclical job loss and unemployment fell disproportionately on young and unskilled workers. The paper identifies, by age, gender …

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Essays on Temporary Work Agencies and the Economic Analysis of Law

Westéus, Morgan - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2014

Paper [I] adds to the theoretical literature on the incentives of Temporary Work Agencies (TWAs). Using a principal-agent model with hidden action to model two main types of contracts between a TWA and a Client Firm (CF), the TWA is shown to potentially act against the best interest of the CF...

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Do Policies that Reduce Unemployment Raise its Volatility?: Evidence from OECD Countries

Serres, Alain de; Murtin, Fabrice - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013

In this paper we examine whether past labour market reforms aiming at reducing the rate of unemployment have raised its … Monte-Carlo techniques, we do not find any evidence of such policy trade-off. In contrast, we find that reduced unemployment … associated with a weaker persistence of unemployment over time, which implies a lower volatility of unemployment in the long run …

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Zur Beschäftigungsentwicklung in Deutschland

Schnabel, Hubert - In: Zeitschrift fuer Wirtschaftspolitik 64 (2015) 1, pp. 73-110

This paper examines theoretical and empirical aspects of the employment in Germany from 2000 – 2013. Inspired by Krelle’s (1996) discussion paper relevant German labor market data are traced and it is analyzed to which extend some theoretical employment considerations and labor market reform...

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On the Effects of Career Choice: Matching Efficiency of Different Occupations and Education Levels

Fahr, René; Sunde, Uwe - International Conferences on Panel Data - 2002

This paper investigates the differences in the matching process of job seekers and vacancies to be filled between different educational and occupational groups. To investigate this issue, matching functions are estimated across different occupations and educational cohorts, that is, on an even...

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Employment, unemployment and real economic growth

Kitov, Ivan; Kitov, Oleg - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

We have modeled the employment/population ratio in the largest developed countries. Our results show that the evolution of the employment rate since 1970 can be predicted with a high accuracy by a linear dependence on the logarithm of real GDP per capita. All empirical relationships estimated in...

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Christopher Pissarides

Jackman, Richard - Palgrave Macmillan

Professor Christopher Pissarides was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Economics jointly with Peter Diamond and Dale Mortensen ‘for their analysis of markets with search frictions’. Though Pissarides is best known for his work in this area, it is only part of a very extensive research agenda...

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Arbeitsmarktbilanz Ostdeutschland: Bedeutung sozialversicherungspflichtiger Beschäftigung nimmt zu

Brautzsch, Hans-Ulrich - In: Wirtschaft im Wandel 17 (2011) 11, pp. 381-386

attributable to the industry (incl. construction). Registered unemployment declined considerably. Labor supply decreased like in … economic growth. The unemployment rate will amount to 11.0% in 2011 and to 10.9% in 2012. …

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Relative Demand and Supply of Skills and Wage Rigidity in the United States, Britain, and Western Germany

Puhani, Patrick A. - In: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer … 228 (2008) 5+6, pp. 573-585

period when unemployment increased in Germany but fell in Britain and the US. I show that in this period, Germany experienced …

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Employment Adjustment and Part-Time Jobs : The U.S. and the U.K. In the Great Recession

Borowczyk-Martins, Daniel - 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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