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Heterogeneity in the dynamics of disaggregate unemployment
Ahn, Hie Joo - 2016 - This version: July 29th, 2016
disaggregate unemployment and in the cross-sectional differences across individuals of the duration of unemployment spells. The …-space model of Ahn and Hamilton (2016). I found that the contribution of each factor to the dynamics of disaggregate unemployment …
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Do policies that reduce unemployment raise its volatility? : evidence from OECD countries
De Serres, Alain; Murtin, Fabrice - 2013
In this paper we examine whether past labour market reforms aiming at reducing the rate of unemployment have raised its … Monte-Carlo techniques, we do not find any evidence of such policy trade-off. In contrast, we find that reduced unemployment … associated with a weaker persistence of unemployment over time, which implies a lower volatility of unemployment in the long run …
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More alike than different : the Spanish and Irish labour markets before and after the crisis
Agnese, Pablo; Salvador, Pablo F. - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 1 (2012), pp. 1-24
dynamic simulations that account for the swings of the unemployment rates before and after the 2007 crisis. Our results … productivity, and demographics, succeed in explaining a great part of the changes in unemployment in both countries. …
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The Jobs Challenge in Poland : Policies to Raise Employment
Burns, Andrew - 2004
inactivity traps inherent in the Polish personal transfer system, while improving the efficiency and targeting of social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012445638
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Chapter 7. Search in Macroeconomic Models of the Labor Market
Rogerson, Richard; Shimer, Robert - In: Handbook of labor economics : volume 4, part A, (pp. 619-700). 2011
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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Macroeconomic Relaxation: Adjustment Processes of Hierarchical Economic Structures
Aoki, Masanao; Hawkins, Raymond - In: Economics - The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 3 (2009), pp. 1-21
examining the relationship between output and demand as mediated by changes in unemployment, or Okun's law. We also demonstrate …
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How did immigrants fare in the Irish labour market over the Great Recession?
Kelly, Elish; McGuinness, Séamus; O'Connell, Philip J.; … - 2016
This paper identifies the labour market impact of the Great Recession on immigrants compared to natives and how this relationship has evolved since the downturn. We find that the employment penalty suffered by immigrant workers, relative to native workers, increased significantly over the Irish...
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Migration in Ireland : challenges, opportunities and policies
González Pandiella, Alberto - 2016
The Irish labour market is exceptionally open to international migration flows, thus making labour supply highly responsive to changes in cyclical conditions. Immigration provides the skills that the Irish economy needs. The crisis triggered a sharp reversal in migration flows, with immigration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011577721
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Better harnessing talent and knowledge to boost sustainable medium-term growth in Spain
Haugh, David; Westmore, Ben - 2014
Structural transformation towards a more knowledge-based economy will strengthen Spain’s medium-term growth prospects. To deal with long standing impediments to higher growth the government has a substantial structural reform programme touching on education, the labour market and the business...
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The "family 500+" child allowance and female labour supply in Poland
Magda, Iga; Kiełczewska, Aneta; Brandt, Nicola - 2018
In 2016 the Polish government introduced a large new child benefit, called “Family 500+”, with the aim to increase fertility from a low level and reduce child poverty. The benefit is universal for the second and every further child and means-tested for the first child. Increasing out-of-work...
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