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Subjective well-being and selected economic, demographic, and job factors in OECD countries

Marilou, Ioakimidis; Kiohos, Apostolos - In: Advances in management & applied economics 2 (2012) 3, pp. 71-81

This study compared 10 economic, demographic, and job factors between happier and less happy OECD countries based upon scores of subjective well-being (SWB), a concept commonly meaning happiness or life satisfaction. In 2009, the scores of residents in the happier OE CD countries were...

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Frauen tragen immer mehr zum gemeinsamen Verdienst in Partnerschaften bei

Holst, Elke; Kröger, Lea - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 80 (2013) 12, pp. 10-13

for this development is the increasing shift of women out of unemployment and into part-time and marginal employment …

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Indeterminacy and search theory

Giammarioli, Nicola - 2003

capable to generate business ßuctuations, driven by self-fulÞlling belief, characterised by unemployment persistence. A …

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Did the pattern of aggregate employment growth change in the euro area in the late 1990s?

Mourre, Gilles - 2004

The paper examines whether the pattern of growth in euro area employment seen in the period 1997-2001 differed from that recorded in the past and what could be the reasons for that. First, a standard employment equation is estimated for the euro area as a whole. This shows that the lagged impact...

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Technology shocks and robust sign restrictions in a euro area SVAR

Peersman, Gert; Straub, Roland - 2004

This paper provides evidence for the impact of technology, labor supply, monetary policy and aggregate spending shocks on hours worked in the Euro area. The evidence is based on a vector autoregression identiﬁed using sign restrictions that are consistent with both sticky price and real...

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Aggregation and euro area Phillips curves

Fabiani, Silvia; Morgan, Julian - 2003

This paper examines the issue of the impact of aggregation in the empirical analysis of euro area labour markets. A Phillips Curve describing the adjustment of unit labour costs is estimated at the national and aggregate level for the 5 largest euro area countries. Potential sources of...

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Time variation in U.S. wage dynamics

Hofmann, Boris; Peersman, Gert; Straub, Roland - 2010

This paper explores time variation in the dynamic effects of technology shocks on U.S. output, prices, interest rates as well as real and nominal wages. The results indicate considerable time variation in U.S. wage dynamics that can be linked to the monetary policy regime. Before and after the...

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Labor market institutions and the business cycle unemployment rigidities vs. real wage rigidities

Abbritti, Mirko; Weber, Sebastian - 2010

This paper investigates the importance of labor market institutions for inflation and unemployment dynamics. Using the … Unemployment Rigidities (UR) and those that cause Real Wage Rigidities (RWR). The two types of institutions have opposite effects … New Keynesian framework we argue that labor market institutions should be divided into those institutions that cause …

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Wage setting and wage flexibility in Ireland

Keeney, Mary; Lawless, Martina - 2010

This paper investigates the wage-setting behaviour of Irish firms. We place particular emphasis on the use of flexible pay components and examine how these allow firms to deal with shocks requiring a reduction in costs without having to cut base wages. The results presented in this paper are...

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Nominal and real wage rigidities. In theory and in Europe

Knell, Markus - 2010

In this paper I study the relation between real wage rigidity (RWR) and nominal price and wage rigidity. I show that in a standard DSGE model RWR is mainly affected by the interaction of the two nominal rigidities and not by other structural parameters. The degree of RWR is, however,...

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