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Are firms willing to employ a greying and feminizing workforce?

VANDENBERGHE, Vincent - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2012

Are employers willing to employ more older individuals, in particular older women? Higher employment among the older segments of the population will only materialise if firms are willing to employ them. Although several economists have started considering the demand side of the labour market for...

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Assessing education's contribution to productivity using firm-level evidence

LEBEDINSKI, Lara; VANDENBERGHE, Vincent - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2013

There is plenty of individual-level evidence, based on the estimation of Mincerian equations, showing that better-educated individuals earn more. This is usually interpreted as a proof that education raises labour productivity. Some macroeconomists, analysing cross-country time series, also...

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Demand-Supply Interactions and Unemployment Dynamics: Can there be Path Dependency ? The Case of Belgium, 1955-1994

Shadman-Mehta, Fatemeh; Sneessens, Henri R. - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 1998

capacity shortages cannot be the direct and single cause of unemployment persistence. Inferring from this observation that low … investment rates play no role in explaining the persistence of high unemployment rates may however fail to take into account the … analyse the determinants of equilibrium unemployment (the NAIRU), provided one takes explicitly into account the effect of a …

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Does Modern Econometrics replicate the Phillips Curve?

Shadman-Mehta, Fatemeh - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 1996

This paper reexamines the existence of a long-run relationship between wages and unemployment in the U.K., with data … and the unemployment rate. However, the main impact of deviations from this long-run equilibrium is on the unemployment …

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Real Wages, Quantity Constraints and Equilibrium Unemployment : Belgium 1955-1988

Lubrano, Michel; Shadman-Mehta, Fatemeh; Sneessens, Henri R. - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 1993

This paper examines the determinants of equilibrium wage and unemployment rates in Belgium within the framework of a … this stage is then used to estimate a three-equation econometric model explaining the wage share, the unemployment rate and … the capital gap. The slowdown in world trade is depicted as the most important factor explaining the rise in unemployment …

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