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Are more severe recessions followed by stronger recoveries? : evidence from the Mexican states employment

Mejía Reyes, Pablo; Vergara-González, Reyna - 2015

recessions (depth, steepness and duration) in the case of the Mexican states employment during the 2001-2003 and 2008 …-2009 recessions. The original models are extended to include the effects of external and fiscal shocks, as measured by the annual … steepness of prior recessions (as measured by the percentage accumulated drop and the monthly average growth rate of employment …

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Do informational nudges alter firms' hiring behavior of older workers?

Homrighausen, Pia; Lang, Julia - 2019

This paper analyses a local marketing campaign that provided information about unproven age-re-lated stereotypes and the value of older workers in Germany. The campaign was designed to increase the hiring rate of older workers. Using comprehensive register data, we find that the information...

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Marriage and divorce under labor market uncertainty

Holzner, Christian; Schulz, Bastian - 2019 - Preliminary version

This paper studies match formation and dissolution in frictional marriage markets under labor market uncertainty. We propose a search model with transferable utility in which ex-ante heterogeneous men and women simultaneously search for partners in the marriage market and switch between...

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Are small firms more cyclically sensitive than large ones? : national, regional and sectoral evidence from Brazil

Cravo, Túlio - 2010

, indicating that SMEs shed proportionally more jobs in recessions and gain more in booms. This pattern is also observed in most of …

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The wage dynamics in Spain : evidence from individual data (1994-2001)

García Mainar, Inmaculada; Montuenga Gómez, Víctor Manuel - 2011

In this paper we test the hypothesis of a wage curve against a Phillips curve for Spain within a framework which allos …

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The NRU and the evolution of regional disparities in Spanish unemployment

Bande Ramudo, Roberto; Karanassou, Marika - 2012

On both theoretical and empirical grounds, this paper provides evidence that refutes the natural rate of unemployment (NRU) hypothesis as an explanation of the evolution of regional disparities in the unemployment rate. We first present our analytical framework, which follows the chain reaction...

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Creative professionals and high-skilled agents' : polarization of employment growth? : 51st Congress of the European Regional Science Association (ERSA), Barcelona, Spain

Wedemeier, Jan - 2011

The creative sector is one of the driving forces of total employment growth. Furthermore, economic studies suggest that the clustering of human capital might result in the polarization of economic development. Since the creative sector's de nition is motivated from the insights of the economics...

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