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Labor Force Internationalization. Unemployment and Emigration in Bacau and Vaslui Counties of Romania

Munteanu, Roxana Florina; Moraru, Andreea - In: CES Working Papers 7 (2015) 2, pp. 309-316

The article analyses the relations between unemployment and emigration in Bacau and Vaslui counties, in a comparative … to provide a visual outlook over the reality concerning unemployment and emigration. …

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Does unemployment invariance hypothesis hold for Canada?

Tansel, Aysit; Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin; Aksoy, Emre - 2016

This article explores the long-run relationship between unemployment rate and labor force participation rate in Canada … leads us to doubt the pertinence of the unemployment invariance hypothesis for Canada. This is consistent with the empirical …

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Employment protection and labour market performance in European Union countries during the Great Recession

Ferreiro, Jesus; 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 …

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The Ins and Outs of Involuntary Part-Time Employment

Borowczyk-Martins, Daniel; Lalé, Etienne - 2018

We develop an adjustment procedure to construct U.S. monthly time series of involuntary part-time employment stocks and flows from 1976 until today. Armed with these new data, we provide a comprehensive account of the dynamics of involuntary part-time work. Transitions from full-time to...

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Flexibility vs. Rigidity: Does Spain have the worst of both Worlds?

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2000

In this paper we study the structure of labor market flows in Spain and compare them with France and the US. We characterize a number of empirical regularities and stylized facts. One striking result is that the job finding rate is slightly higher than in France, while the job loss rate is much...

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Disaggregate Matching Functions

Fahr, René; Sunde, Uwe - 2001

This paper deals with empirical matching functions. The paper is innovative in several ways. First, unlike in most of the existing literature, matching functions are estimated not only on aggregate, but also on disaggregate levels which is unusual due to the scarcity of appropriate data....

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A Test of the ?Krugman Hypothesis? for the United States, Britain, and Western Germany

Puhani, Patrick A. - 2003

Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment … large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment …

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The current economic and financial crisis: a gender perspective

Antonopoulos, Rania - 2009

Widespread economic recessions and protracted financial crises have been documented as setting back gender equality and other development goals in the past. In the midst of the current global crisisoften referred to as the Great Recession"there is grave concern that progress made in poverty...

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Skill wage premia, employment, and cohort effects: are workers in Germany all of the same type?

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Kohn, Karsten - 2006

-specific unemployment rates in 1997. The required nominal wage reductions range from 8.8 to 12.2% and are the higher the lower the employees …

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How important are labor market institutions for labor market performance in transition countries?

Lehmann, Hartmut; Muravyev, Alexander - 2009

This paper offers a first comprehensive study of the relationship between labor market institutions and policies and … documents the evolution of labor market institutions and policies in the transition region. The data show a clear trend towards … test several predictions concerning the role of institutions and polices in explaining labor market outcomes. The results …

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