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What's "structural" about unemployment in Europe : on the determinants of the European Commission's NAIRU estimates

Heimberger, Philipp; Kapeller, Jakob; Schütz, Bernhard - 2016

This paper analyzes the determinants of the European Commission's NAIRU estimates for 14 European OECD countries during … 1985-2012. The NAIRU is a poor proxy for 'structural unemployment': Labor market institutions - employment protection … legislation, union density, tax wedge, minimum wages - underperform in explaining the NAIRU, while cyclical variables - capital …

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The case for a job guarantee policy in Germany : a political-economic analysis of the potential benefits and obstacles

Landwehr, Jannik J. - 2020

As a bottom-up approach, a Job Guarantee policy can tackle the issue of unemployment on the macroeconomic, socioeconomic, and individual level in a unique way and promote the social inclusion of the unemployed. This paper aims at analysing the potential obstacles - namely inflationary pressure...

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The rise and fall of Swedish unemployment

Holmlund, Bertil - 2003

in NAIRU but do not appear as promising explanations of the events of the early 1990s. The fall in unemployment in the … NAIRU. …

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The Rise and Fall of Swedish Unemployment

Holmlund, Bertil - 2021

in NAIRU but do not appear as promising explanations of the events of the early 1990s. The fall in unemployment in the … NAIRU …

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Makroökonomie: Blind Spot Gender. Erweiterung makroökonomischer Indikatoren durch eine Gender-Komponente am Beispiel der empirischen Phillips-Kurve

Holst, Elke; Barth, Denise - 2019

Dieser Beitrag möchte einen Impuls zur stärkeren Berücksichtigung von Genderaspekten in makroökonomischen Modellen geben. Am Beispiel der Philipps-Kurve geht es um die Frage, ob sich das Erwerbsverhalten von Frauen und Männern so stark voneinander unterscheidet, dass sich dies im Verlauf...

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Does employment protection affect unemployment? A meta-analysis

Heimberger, Philipp - 2020

Despite extensive research efforts, the magnitude of the effect of employment protection legislation (EPL) on unemployment remains unclear. Existing econometric estimates exhibit substantial variation, and it is therefore difficult to draw valid conclusions. This paper applies meta-analysis and...

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