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economic fluctuations across horizons. Second, matching efficiency and wage bargaining shocks are significant sources of …
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with theory, establishments with more procyclical wage movements over the business cycle have a more countercyclical hires …
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This paper investigates how compositional changes in the UK labour market affect the matching process between vacancies … and job seekers. We augment a state space representation of the aggregate matching function with a measure of job seekers … developments in the literature. The baseline results show that matching efficiency declined by around 15% between 1995 and 2010 but …
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We examine the matching process using monthly panel data for local labour markets in Sweden. We find that an increase …
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We examine the matching process using monthly panel data for local labour markets in Sweden. We find that an increase …
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We develop a framework where mismatch between vacancies and job seekers across sectors translates into higher unemployment by lowering the aggregate job-finding rate. We use this framework to measure the contribution of mismatch to the recent rise in U.S. unemployment by exploiting two sources...
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This paper re-examines Lilien's sectoral shifts hypothesis for U.S. unemployment. We employ a monthly panel that spans from 1990:01 to 2011:12 for 48 U.S. states. Panel unit root tests that allow for crosssectional dependence reveal the stationarity of unemployment. Within a framework that takes...
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This paper analyzes whether differences in institutional structures on capital markets contribute to explaining why some OECD-countries, in particular the Anglo-Saxon countries, have been much more successful over the last two decades in producing employment growth and in reducing unemployment...
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This paper analyzes whether differences in institutional structures on capital markets contribute to explaining why some OECD-countries, in particular the Anglo-Saxon countries, have been much more successful over the last two decades in producing employment growth and in reducing unemployment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010495327
The structural rate of unemployment and associated non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment (the NAIRU) are of major importance to the analysis of macro and structural economic developments, although in practice these concepts are not well defined and there is considerable uncertainty and...
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