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reacts to regional employment shocks in a variety of cases. Shock responses are channelled via changes in unemployment …
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inequality and employment. To this end, we use annual data for the US, UK and Sweden over the past forty years and estimate … contributions of the labour share to the trajectories of inequality and employment during specific time intervals in the post-1990 … years. We find that during the nineties the cost of a one percent increase in employment was in the range of 0 …
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investigates its impact on the evolution of employment. Whilst maintaining the assumption of a unitary long-run elasticity of wages … stylised labour demand equation and show that the labour share is a driving force of employment. We substantiate our analytical … exposition by providing empirical models of wage setting and employment equations for France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, the …
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This paper examines the movements in EU unemployment from two perspectives: (a) the NRU/NAIRU perspective, in which unemployment movements are attributed largely to changes in the long-run equilibrium unemployment rate and (b) the chain-reaction perspective, in which unemployment movements are...
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This paper presents a reappraisal of unemployment movements in the European Union. Our analysis is based on the chain reaction theory of unemployment, which focuses on (a) the interaction among labor market adjustment processes, (b) the interplay between these adjustment processes and the...
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