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Unemployment in the United States and in Europe : a contrast and the reasons ; the European unemployment problem

Solow, Robert - In: CESifo Forum 1 (2000) 1, pp. 3-5

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Employment and reallocation effects of higher minimum wages

Drechsel-Grau, Moritz - 2023

This paper studies the employment and reallocation effects of minimum wages in Germany in a search-and-matching model … to avoid elevated unemployment rates during the transition. …

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Effects of the minimum wage on US county labor markets

Otterby, Dawn; Crawley, Andrew; Gabe, Todd M. - In: Regional science policy and practice : RSPP 16 (2024) 5, pp. 1-10

This study investigates the impacts of the minimum wage on U.S. regional labor markets. Using ten years of county-level data, we examine the relationship between the minimum wage and several key components of the labor market. Following past research, the number of people in the labor force is...

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Active labor market policies and instability of their allocations : a changing relationship in the case of regions of Tunisia

Sahnoun, Marwa; Abdennadher, Chokri - In: Regional science policy and practice : RSPP 16 (2024) 6, pp. 1-10

ALMPs are effective in reducing the unemployment rate. In addition, by testing the moderating effect of the instability of … ALMPs, we show that this instability is very harmful insofar as the link between ALMPs and the unemployment rate is …

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Full employment : a survey of theory, empirics and policies

Lichtenberger, Andreas; Heimberger, Philipp; Arsenev, … - 2024

unemployment and maximum employment approaches; and the unfilled vacancies perspective. Furthermore, we provide and discuss …

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Does Occupational Licensing Reduce Job Loss During Recessions?

Blair, Peter Q.; Chung, Bobby W. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Licensed workers could be shielded from unemployment during recession since occupational licensing laws are asymmetric …-in-differences event study research design that exploits cross-state variation in licensing laws to compare the unemployment rate between …, we find that licensing shields workers from a recession-induced increase in the unemployment rate of 0.82 p.p. during …

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Employment Adjustment and Part-Time Jobs : The U.S. and the U.K. In the Great Recession

Borowczyk-Martins, Daniel - 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...

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When More Flexibility Yields More Fragility : The Microfoundations of Keynesian Aggregate Unemployment

Dosi, Giovanni - 2016

market regularities and (ii) macroeconomic dynamics (long-term rates of growth, GDP fluctuations, unemployment rates …

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On the Response of Italian Wages to the Unemployment Rate

Rosolia, Alfonso - 2016

and salary items set at the firm level are found to respond more strongly to unemployment. I conclude that the observed …

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Long Memory in Turkish Unemployment Rates

Gil-Alana, Luis A. - 2017

In this paper we have examined the unemployment rate series in Turkey by using long memory models and in particular … employing fractionally integrated techniques. Our results suggest that unemployment in Turkey is highly persistent, with orders …. We found evidence in favor of mean reversion in the case of female unemployment and this happens for all the groups of …

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