performance. Our analysis has two special features. First, apart from the two labour market states - employment and unemployment … that a shock to the net flow from unemployment to employment drive the unemployment rate and the participation rate in …

To generate big responses of unemployment to productivity changes, researchers have reconfigured matching models in … these redesigned matching models increase responses of unemployment to movements in productivity by diminishing the …

In this paper, we analyse employment and capital adjustments using a panel of plants from Colombia. We allow for … nonlinear adjustment of employment to reflect not only adjustment costs of labour but also adjustment costs of capital, and vice …-level productivity, demand shocks, and cost shocks, and use them to measure desired factor levels. We then estimate adjustment functions …

, employment, gross investment and physical capital. We find that a conventional specification — quadratic adjustment costs for … capital and no hiring costs — performs poorly. Rather hiring and investment flows, unlike employment and capital stocks, are …

labour share, employment and wages respond to privatization and other regulatory changes. We exploit cross-country panel data …

A significant gap exists in the UK between the employment rate for Ethnic Minorities and that for Whites. From a policy … discriminatory behaviour in the labour market. In this paper, we use administrative data to estimate ethnic differences in employment …

the United States, is that the heavy regulation of Europe reduces its growth. Using newly assembled data on regulation in … several sectors of many OECD countries, we provide substantial and robust evidence that various measures of regulation in the …