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stated that matching efficiency decreased. Using a new decomposition method, combined with detailed labour market flow data …, we are the first to disentangle supply-side, demand-side and matching factors, which could potentially cause a shift in … the Beveridge curve in Austria. We find empirical evidence to confirm that the increase in the unemployment rate in …
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partners in the marriage market and switch between employment and unemployment in the labor market. In the marriage market … labor market divorces triggered by unemployment has decreased significantly. …
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hiring of new employees rather than a decrease in separations, with direct flows out of unemployment constituting about half …
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unemployment over the last two decades that persisted beyond the Great Recession. Our structural VAR approach encompasses various … for most of the observed unemployment decline. Wage moderation was most pronounced right after the implementation of Hartz ….e. within the monetary union. In contrast, the muted response of unemployment to the Great Recession was not significantly …
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Migration interacts with the domestic labour market through the increase in labour supply from immigration when labour market conditions improve and labour market tightness increases. Lozej studies the amplification mechanism that arises when there are search frictions, as it becomes more...
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The recent literature has emphasized that government intervention when consumers have quasi-hyperbolic preferences ('bias for the present') over consumption is not welfare-enhancing. This paper introduces a market imperfection (which takes the form of a negative externality) and shows that...
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While there is a wealth of literature dealing with the spatial nature of knowledge and its transferral, I argue that the underlying mechanisms have not been sufficiently understood. Existing research relating the geography of inflows to firm productivity does not adequately address firm and...
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