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Productivity, Growth Potential and Monetary Policy in the EMU
Fitoussi, Jean-Paul - Department of Economics, Sciences économiques - 2006
The reversal in the trend of productivity growth between the US and the UK on one side, and the main countries of … market performance, which should account for the growth and productivity divergence. While some measures aimed at increasing … debate on productivity growth is the moderate emphasis given to investment and capital accumulation. By looking back to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010756939
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Productivity, Growth Potential and Monetary Policy in the EMU.
Fitoussi, Jean-Paul - Sciences Po - 2006
The reversal in the trend of productivity growth between the US and the UK on one side, and the main countries of … market performance, which should account for the growth and productivity divergence. While some measures aimed at increasing … debate on productivity growth is the moderate emphasis given to investment and capital accumulation. By looking back to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008575114
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The time trend in the matching function
Poeschel, Friedrich - 2012
We revisit the puzzling finding that labour market performance appears to deteriorate, as suggested by negative time trends in empirical matching functions. We investigate whether these trends simply arise from omitted variable bias. Concretely, we consider the omission of job seekers beyond the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010323804
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Social Contacts, Dutch Language Proficiency and Immigrant Economic Performance in the Netherlands
Chiswick, Barry R.; Wang, Zhiling - 2019
Using longitudinal data on immigrants in the Netherlands fromthe survey 'Social Position and Use of Public Facilities by Immigrants' (SPVA) for the years 1991, 1994, 1998, 2002, we examined the impacts of social contacts and Dutch language proficiency on adult foreign-born men's earnings,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012116000
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The impact of Chernobyl on health and labour market performance in the Ukraine
Lehmann, Hartmut; Wadsworth, Jonathan - 2009
Using longitudinal data from the Ukraine we examine the extent of any long-lasting effects of radiation exposure from the Chernobyl disaster on the health and labour market performance of the adult workforce. The variation in the local area level of radiation fallout from the Chernobyl accident...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271264
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The transition into work - specialities for the hidden labour force in comparison to other economically inactive persons
Holst, Elke; Spieß, Christa Katharina - 2004
The paper presents a multivariate approach on transitions into work for five non working groups including the unemployed, the Attached, people in education, people doing housework and others. The study is based on ECHP data from 1994 to 1998. It is expected that individuals in the Attached group...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276741
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Why Labour Market Response Differed in the Great Recession: The Impact of Institutions and Policy
Aiginger, Karl; Horvath, Thomas; Mahringer, Helmut - 2011
This paper investigates the performance of labour markets during the recent crisis for 28 industrialised countries, specifically the reaction of employment and unemployment indicators relative to output changes. We construct a composite indicator for output as well as labour market performance....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011435322
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Social Contacts, Dutch Language Proficiency and Immigrant Economic Performance in the Netherlands: A Longitudinal Study
Chiswick, Barry R.; Wang, Zhiling - 2016
Using longitudinal data on immigrants in the Netherlands for the years 1991, 1994, 1998, 2002, we examined the impacts of social contacts and Dutch language proficiency on adult foreign-born men's earnings, employment and occupational status. The main conclusions are as follows. On average,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011479278
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Social contacts, Dutch language proficiency and immigrant economic performance in the Netherlands : a longitudinal study
Chiswick, Barry R.; Wang, Zhiling - 2016
Using longitudinal data on immigrants in the Netherlands for the years 1991, 1994, 1998, 2002, we examined the impacts of social contacts and Dutch language proficiency on adult foreign-born men's earnings, employment and occupational status. The main conclusions are as follows. On average,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452733
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Social contacts, Dutch language proficiency and immigrant economic performance in the Netherlands
Chiswick, Barry R.; Wang, Zhiling - 2019
Using longitudinal data on immigrants in the Netherlands fromthe survey 'Social Position and Use of Public Facilities by Immigrants' (SPVA) for the years 1991, 1994, 1998, 2002, we examined the impacts of social contacts and Dutch language proficiency on adult foreign-born men's earnings,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012144572