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The iceberg decomposition : a parsimonious way tomap the health of labour markets

Baert, Stijn - 2020

This article introduces the metaphor of the iceberg in the labour market. While policy in most OECD countries has 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...

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Chapter 18 Job reallocation, employment fluctuations and unemployment

Mortensen, Dale T.; Pissarides, Christopher A. - In: Handbook of macroeconomics : volume 1, part B, (pp. 1171-1228). 1999

properties of employment and unemployment equilibrium. Second, it applies the model to the study of employment fluctuations and … unemployed workers from inactivity to production (the ‘job creation’ flow) and one for the flow of workers from employment to … flows are equal. The model is shown to explain well the employment fluctuations observed in the US economy, within the …

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The Impact of Employment in Israel on the Palestinian Labor Force

Etkes, Haggay - 2011

This study provides circumstantial evidence for the impact of permits for employment in Israel on the Palestinian labor … that merges data from the Palestinian Labor Force Survey with Israeli administrative data on permits for employment in … Israel. The study quantifies the increase in Palestinian employment in the Israeli and Palestinian economies and the decrease …

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Unemployment and Subsequent Employment Stability : Does Labour Market Policy Matter?

Wulfgramm, Melike - 2013

This paper analyses the effect of unemployment insurance generosity and active labour market policy on reemployment stability in Europe. Using EU‐SILC and OECD data, we conduct discrete time survival analyses with shared frailty specification to identify policy effects at the micro and macro...

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The unemployment invariance hypothesis and the implications of added and discouraged worker effects in Latin America

Maridueña-Larrea, Ángel; Martín-Román, Ángel - 2023

This research explores the long-term equilibrium relationship between unemployment and labour force participation rates for six selected countries in Latin America at both aggregate and gender-disaggregated levels. Cointegration analysis focused on the study of time series is used to validate...

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