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Dignity of work and full employment
Simonazzi, Annamaria - In: PSL quarterly review 74 (2021) 297, pp. 115-126
The paper offers a brief reconstruction of the varying fortunes of the Charter of Workers' Rights, interpreted in light of the evolution of economic thinking on the role of the market - especially of the labor market - and on the reversal that has been made of the role of labor policy in...
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The Swedish Youth Labor Market in Boom and Depression
Edin, Per-Anders; Forslund, Anders; Holmlund, Bertil - 1998
of labor market programs on youth employment. We find that the slump in the 1990s has been associated with dramatic … and education has been roughly proportional, however. The evolution of employment and unemployment does not offer much … for labor by skill attributable to technological innovation. The employment crisis has been met by an unprecedented …
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Firms' employment dynamics and the state of the labor market
Stadin, Karolina - 2015
expected magnitudes of these effects on firms’ employment dynamics? In this paper, I simulate a theoretical model featuring … simulations show quite small employment effects of typical shocks to the number of vacancies in the local labor market and very … small effects of typical shocks to the number of unemployed. The employment effects are smaller in recessions than in booms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011373159
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The right man for the job
Teulings, Coen N.; Gautier, Pieter - 2000
This paper describes a search model with a continuum of worker and job types, free entry and transferable utility. We apply a second-order Taylor expansion to characterize the equilibrium, derive the "cost of search" and show that it is decreasing in the substitutability of worker types. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011303299
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The impact of institutions on the employment performance in European labour markets
Buscher, Herbert S.; Dreger, Christian; Ramos, Raúl; … - 2005
. Labour demand is expressed by its structural parameters, such as the elasticities of employment to output and factor prices …. Institutional variables include employment protection legislation, the structure of wage bargaining, measures describing the tax and … transfer system and active labour market policies. As cointegration between employment, output and factor prices is detected …
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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 structural equation for employment that we estimate on firm-level data …
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The Impact of Institutions on the Employment Performance in European Labour Markets
Buscher, Herbert S.; Dreger, Christian; Ramos, Raul; … - 2021
. Labour demand is expressed by its structural parameters, such as the elasticities of employment to output and factor prices …. Institutional variables include employment protection legislation, the structure of wage bargaining, measures describing the tax and … transfer system and active labour market policies. As cointegration between employment, output and factor prices is detected …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318303
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Job creation in tight and slack labor markets
Buchheim, Lukas; Watzinger, Martin; Wilhelm, Matthias - 2019
Do investment programs create more jobs in tight or in slack labor markets? We study this question using data from a large, long-term photovoltaic invest scheme in Germany. Comparing counties with high and low unemployment both over time and across space, we find that photovoltaic installations...
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Estimating the effect of an increase in the minimum wage on hours worked and employment in Ireland
McGuinness, Séamus; Redmond, Paul - 2018
per week. We found a corresponding increase in part-time employment of 2 percentage points for all minimum wage workers …
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The macroeconomics of automation : data, theory, and policy analysis
Jaimovich, Nir; Saporta-Eksten, Itay; Siu, Henry E.; … - 2020
of routine employment and its consequent impacts on inequality. …
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