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Employment protection and labour market performance in European Union countries during the Great Recession
Ferreiro Aparicio, Jesús; Gómez, Carmen - 2018
-term unemployment rates, leading to the need to reform labour market institutions and make them more flexible. Flexible labour markets … employment and unemployment) but also to reduce the negative impacts on labour market of structural shocks. If we focus on the …, the countries with the best results in terms of unemployment and employment would have been those that had a more flexible …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011927085
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Employment adjustment and part-time jobs : the U.S. and the U.K. in the Great Recession
Borowczyk-Martins, Daniel; Lalé, Etienne - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011455784
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More alike than different : the Spanish and Irish labour markets before and after the crisis
Agnese, Pablo; Salvador, Pablo F. - 2011
global crisis as reflected by the largest increases in their unemployment rates among other developed economies. Spain and … sets of dynamic simulations which account for the swings of the unemployment rates before and after the 2007 crisis. Our … labour productivity, and demographics, succeed in explaining a great part of the changes in unemployment in both countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009307347
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More alike than different : the Spanish and Irish labour markets before and after the crisis
Agnese, Pablo; Salvador, Pablo F. - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 1 (2012), pp. 1-24
dynamic simulations that account for the swings of the unemployment rates before and after the 2007 crisis. Our results … productivity, and demographics, succeed in explaining a great part of the changes in unemployment in both countries. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009725373
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The recovery from the Great Recession: a long, evolving expansion
Shambaugh, Jay C.; Strain, Michael R. - 2021
Prior to 2020, the Great Recession was the most important macroeconomic shock to the United States economy in generations. Millions lost jobs and homes. At its peak, one in ten workers who wanted a job could not find one. On an annual basis, the economy contracted by more than it had since the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012405441
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Labor Force Participation and Monetary Policy in the Wake of the Great Recession
Erceg, Christopher J. - 2014
In this paper, we provide compelling evidence that cyclical factors account for the bulk of thepost-2007 decline in the U.S. labor force participation rate. We then proceed to formulate astylized New Keynesian model in which labor force participation is essentially acyclical during“normal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013061162
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The Recovery from the Great Recession : A Long, Evolving Expansion
Shambaugh, Jay; Strain, Michael R. - 2021
Prior to 2020, the Great Recession was the most important macroeconomic shock to the United States economy in generations. Millions lost jobs and homes. At its peak, one in ten workers who wanted a job could not find one. On an annual basis, the economy contracted by more than it had since the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013251540
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Labour market transitions, shocks and institutions in turbulent times : a cross-country analysis
Bachmann, Ronald; Felder, Rahel - 2017
Blanchard and Wolfers (2000) to analyse the role of the interaction of macroeconomic shocks and labour market institutions for … of the unemployment rate and of worker transitions. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011722636
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Labour market transitions, shocks and institutions in turbulent times : a cross-country analysis
Bachmann, Ronald; Felder, Rahel - 2018
Blanchard and Wolfers (2000) to analyse the role of the interaction of macroeconomic shocks and labour market institutions for … of the unemployment rate and of worker transitions. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011821431
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How did the great recession affect different types of workers? : evidence from 17 middle-income countries
Cho, Yoonyoung; Newhouse, David Locke - 2011
, unemployment, and wage employment, particularly relative to older adults. The percentage employment reductions, for example, were …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009296327