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The Ins and Outs of European Unemployment

Petrongolo, Barbara; Pissarides, Christopher A. - In: American Economic Review 98 (2008) 2, pp. 256-62

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A Test Between Unemployment Theories Using Matching Data

Coles, Melvyn G; Petrongolo, Barbara - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

A new methodology is described which tests between various equilibrium theories of unemployment using matching data … identify a matching process using data which is recorded monthly, and also shows how to identify different unemployment … those vacancies come onto the market. In particular, these workers’ experience average durations of unemployment which …

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Gender Gaps across Countries and Skills: Supply, Demand and the Industry Structure

Olivetti, Claudia; Petrongolo, Barbara - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

The gender wage gap varies widely across countries and across skill groups within countries. Interestingly, there is a positive cross-country correlation between the unskilled-to-skilled gender wage gap and the corresponding gap in hours worked. Based on a canonical supply and demand framework,...

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Gender Gaps across Countries and Skills: Supply, Demand and the Industry Structure

Olivetti, Claudia; Petrongolo, Barbara - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

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Gender Gaps and the Rise of the Service Economy

Ngai, Liwa Rachel; Petrongolo, Barbara - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

This paper investigates the role of the rise of services in the narrowing of gender gaps in hours and wages in recent decades. We document the between-industry component of the rise in female work for the U.S., and propose a model economy with goods, services and home production, in which women...

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Gender gaps across countries and skills: Demand, supply and the industry structure

Olivetti, Claudia; Petrongolo, Barbara - In: Review of Economic Dynamics 17 (2014) 4, pp. 842-859

The comovement of gender gaps in hours and wages across countries and skills reveals the presence of net demand forces shaping gender differences in labor market outcomes. This paper links the rich pattern of variation in gender gaps to the process of structural transformation. Based on a...

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The Ins and Outs of European Unemployment

Petrongolo, Barbara; Pissarides, Christopher - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

In this paper we study the contribution of inflows and outflows to the dynamics of unemployment in three European …

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Unequal Pay or Unequal Employment? A Cross-Country Analysis of Gender Gaps

Olivetti, Claudia; Petrongolo, Barbara - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

Gender wage and employment gaps are negatively correlated across countries. We argue that non-random selection of women into work explains an important part of such correlation and thus of the observed variation in wage gaps. The idea is that, if women who are employed tend to have relatively...

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Looking into the Black Box: A Survey of the Matching Function

Pissarides, Christopher A.; Petrongolo, Barbara - In: Journal of Economic Literature 39 (2001) 2, pp. 390-431

-Douglas matching function with hires as a function of vacancies and unemployment has been successfully estimated for several countries …

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Regional mismatch and unemployment: theory and evidence from Italy, 1977–1998

Manacorda, Marco; Petrongolo, Barbara - In: Journal of Population Economics 19 (2006) 1, pp. 137-162

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