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Employment in Poland 2005

Bukowski, Maciej; Lewandowski, Piotr; Magda, Iga; … - EconWPA - 2005

present a comprehensive statistical and econometric analysis of employment, unemployment and participation in Poland in the … with some policy prescriptions. At the moment Poland exhibits the highest unemployment rate in OECD and one of the lowest … increase of unemployment in 1998- 1999 and its later persistence. We find that the supply-side characteristics and sectoral …

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How Much Is Employment Increased by Cutting Labor Costs? Estimating the Elasticity of Job Creation

Beaudry, Paul; Green, David A.; Sand, Benjamin M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

In search and bargaining models, the effect of higher wages on employment is determined by the elasticity of the job creation curve. In this paper, we use U.S. data over the 1970-2007 period to explore whether labor market outcomes abide by the restrictions implied by such models and to evaluate...

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A Formal Test of Assortative Matching in the Labor Market

Abowd, John M.; Kramarz, Francis; Pérez-Duarte, Sébastien - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

We estimate a structural model of job assignment in the presence of coordination frictions due to Shimer (2005). The coordination friction model places restrictions on the joint distribution of worker and firm effects from a linear decomposition of log labor earnings. These restrictions permit...

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The Great Recession, Retirement and Related Outcomes

Gustman, Alan L.; Steinmeier, Thomas L.; Tabatabai, Nahid - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

This paper uses data from the Health and Retirement Study to examine retirement and related labor market outcomes for the Early Boomer cohort, those in their mid-fifties at the onset of the Great Recession. Outcomes are then compared with older cohorts at the same age. The Great Recession...

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The Labor Market Four Years Into the Crisis: Assessing Structural Explanations

Rothstein, Jesse - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

Four years after the beginning of the Great Recession, the labor market remains historically weak. Many observers have concluded that "structural" impediments to recovery bear some of the blame. This paper reviews such structural explanations. I find that there is little evidence supporting...

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Manufacturing Decline, Housing Booms, and Non-Employment

Hurst, Erik; Charles, Kerwin Kofi; Notowidigdo, Matthew J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

We assess the extent to which manufacturing decline and housing booms contributed to changes in U.S. non-employment during the 2000s. Using a local labor market design, we estimate that manufacturing decline significantly increased non-employment during 2000-2007, while local housing booms...

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Search in Macroeconomic Models of the Labor Market

Rogerson, Richard; Shimer, Robert - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

This chapter assesses how models with search frictions have shaped our understanding of aggregate labor market outcomes in two contexts: business cycle fluctuations and long-run (trend) changes. We first consolidate data on aggregate labor market outcomes for a large set of OECD countries. We...

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The Nature of Countercyclical Income Risk

Guvenen, Fatih; Song, Jae; Ozkan, Serdar - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

This paper studies the cyclical nature of individual income risk using a confidential dataset from the U.S. Social Security Administration, which contains (uncapped) earnings histories for millions of individuals. The base sample is a nationally representative panel containing 10 percent of all...

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Labor Market Slack and Monetary Policy

Levin, Andrew Theo; Blanchflower, David G. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

conventional measure of the unemployment rate (that is, the number of individuals who are not working at all and actively searching … working part time who want a full-time job) and the extent of hidden unemployment (that is, people who are not actively ….S. labor market slack and show that underemployment and hidden unemployment currently account for the bulk of the U …

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The Role of Labor Market Changes in the Slowdown of European Productivity Growth

Gordon, Robert J.; Dew-Becker, Ian - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

Throughout the postwar era until 1995 labor productivity grew faster in Europe than in the United States. Since 1995, productivity growth in the EU-15 has slowed while that in the United States has accelerated. But Europe's productivity growth slowdown was largely offset by faster growth in...

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