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How Labour Market Flexibility Affects Unemployment: Long-Term Implications of the Chain Reaction Theory

Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

This paper evaluates two theories of unemployment: the natural rate theory (whereby unemployment is depicted as fluctuating around a reasonably stable natural rate) and the chain reaction theory (which views movements in unemployment as the outcome of the interplay between labour market shocks...

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Central and East European Labour Markets in Transition: Developments, Causes, and Cures

Franz, Wolfgang - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

dynamics of employment and unemployment in order to identify key issues for the sources of the malfunctioning of these labour … passive labour market policies, and the structure of employment and output. …

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A Contribution to Unemployment Dynamics

Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

This paper views movements in unemployment as the result of the interaction between: (a) lags in labour market decisions; and (b) labour market shocks with temporary and permanent components. Two features of unemployment dynamics are examined: (i) `unemployment persistence', arising when...

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Restructuring Production and Work

Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

The paper analyses the contemporary organizational restructuring of production and work and derives some salient implications for the labour market. The analysis focuses on the switch from occupational specialization at 'Tayloristic' organizations to multi-tasking at 'holistic' organizations....

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Explaining the Growth of Part-Time Employment: Factors of Supply and Demand

Euwals, Rob; Hogerbrugge, Maurice - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

Using the Dutch Labour Force Survey 1991-2001, the authors investigate the incidence of part-time employment in the … country with the highest part-time employment rate of the OECD countries. Women fulfil most part-time jobs, but a considerable … level of industry suggests that the growth of part-time employment in the 1990s relates strongly to the growth in female …

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Dismissal Protection and Worker Flows in Small Establishments

Bauer, Thomas; Bender, Stefan; Bonin, Holger - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

German dismissal protection legislation on the employment dynamics in small establishments. Specifically, using a difference …

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Training and Unions

Booth, Alison L; Chatterji, Monojit - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

The paper examines the optimal level of training investment when trained workers are mobile, wage contracts are time-consistent, and training comprises both specific and general skills. It is shown that, in the absence of a social planner, the firm has ex-post monopsonistic power that drives...

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How Large are Search Frictions?

Gautier, Pieter A; Teulings, Coen N - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

This Paper presents strong evidence for the concavity of wages in job and worker characteristics by adding second order terms to a Mincerian earnings function for six OECD countries. Under a standard normality assumption, this concavity cannot be attributed to unobserved components in those...

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How Large are Search Frictions?

Gautier, Pieter A; Teulings, Coen N - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

This paper shows that we can normalize job and worker characteristics such that without frictions there exists a linear relationship between wages on the one hand and worker and job type indices on the other. However, for five European countries and the US we find strong evidence for a...

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Location Choice and Employment Decisions: A Comparison of German and Swedish Multinationals

Becker, Sascha O.; Ekholm, Karolina; Jäckle, Robert; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

strongly attract German but not necessarily Swedish MNEs. In MNEs from either country, affiliate employment tends to substitute … for employment at the parent firm. At the margin, substitutability is the strongest with respect to affiliate employment …

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