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We use a 12-dimensional VAR to examine the dynamic effects on the labour market of four structural technology and policy shocks. For each shock, we examine the dynamic effects on the labour market, the importance of the shock for labour market volatility, and the comovement between labour market...
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This paper studies the joint behaviour of inflation and unemployment in Spain over the period 1964–95 in order to … on the effects of demand shocks on the unemployment rate. Our estimates suggest, according to the reader’s prior belief …
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This paper considers an equilibrium model of unemployment in a labour market where all vacancies are advertised in a … newspaper. Unemployment occurs in occupations that are short on vacancies. New vacancies are created by entrepreneurial search … unique rational expectations equilibrium is shown to exist. The unemployment-vacancy dynamics are consistent with so …
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Theoretical predictions of the impact of TFP growth on unemployment are ambiguous, and depend on the extent to which … creative destruction effects by estimating the impact of TFP growth on unemployment in a panel of industrial countries. We find …-state dynamics of unemployment. Capitalization effects explain some of the estimated impact but a part remains unexplained. …
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. The Beveridge curve depicts the steady state of the model, whereby inflows into unemployment are equal to the outflows …
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leads to constantly rising unemployment and tax rates. The resulting crisis may trigger new insights into economic …
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In this paper we study the political issues associated with reform in the European labour market. We first discuss the role played by labour market rigidities in European society, and argue that reform is a difficult task because many regulations and rigidities benefit the majority of the...
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and by the need to reallocate workers across productive activities. The duration of unemployment and jobs and wage … policies on wages and unemployment. …
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This paper starts from the observation that despite their very high levels of unemployment, major European countries … have devoted few resources to reducing it. This suggests that there is little political concern about high unemployment. I …
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We present a static model of aggregate demand and unemployment. The economy has a nonproduced good, a produced good … prices as parameters. We obtain the following results: (1) unemployment and unsold production prevail in equilibrium; (2 … and reduce unemployment. …
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