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Regional Mismatch and Unemployment: Theory and Evidence from Italy, 1977-1998

Manacorda, Marco; Petrongolo, Barbara - Centro di Economia del Lavoro e di Politica Economica … - 2005

the leading region raise unemployment in the rest of the economy and leave regional wages unchanged, causing an increase … in aggregate unemployment. This model has some success in explaining the evolution of regional unemployment rates in … Italy during the period 1977-1998. Based on SHIW micro data on earnings and ISTAT data on unemployment rates we find strong …

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A Test Between Unemployment Theories Using Matching Data

Coles, Melvyn; Petrongolo, Barbara - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2003

This paper tests whether aggregate matching is consistent with unemployment being mainly due to search frictions or due … with reference to the design of optimal unemployment insurance programs. …

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Gender Gaps Across Countries and Skills: Supply, Demand and the Industry Structure

Olivetti, Claudia; Petrongolo, Barbara - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011

The gender wage gap varies widely across countries and across skill groups within countries. Interestingly, there is a positive cross-country correlation between the unskilled- to-skilled gender wage gap and the corresponding gap in hours worked. Based on a canonical supply and demand framework,...

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Reservation Wages and the Wage Flexibility Puzzle

Koenig, Felix; Manning, Alan; Petrongolo, Barbara - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

Wages are only mildly cyclical, implying that shocks to labour demand have a larger short-run impact on unemployment … occasionally renegotiated, unless the persistence in unemployment is implausibly low. We then provide some evidence that part of …

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Gender Gaps and the Rise of the Service Economy

Ngai, L. Rachel; Petrongolo, Barbara - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013

This paper explains the narrowing of gender gaps in wages and market hours in recent decades by the growth of the service economy. We propose a model with three sectors: goods, services and home production. Women have a comparative advantage in the production of services in the market and at...

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The Ins and Outs of European Unemployment

Petrongolo, Barbara; Pissarides, Christopher A. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2008

In this paper we study the contribution of inflows and outflows to the dynamics of unemployment in three European … significance subsided again in the late 1990s and 2000s. In France the dynamics of unemployment are driven virtually entirely by …

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Unequal Pay or Unequal employment? A Cross-Country Analysis of Gender Gaps

Olivetti, Claudia; Petrongolo, Barbara - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2005

There is evidence of a negative cross-country correlation between gender wage and employment gaps. We argue that non-random selection of women into work explains an important part of such correlation and thus of the observed variation in wage gaps. The idea is that, if women who are employed...

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Scale Effects in Markets with Search

Petrongolo, Barbara; Pissarides, Christopher A. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2003

Reduced-form tests of scale effects in markets with search, run when aggregate matching functions are estimated, may miss important scale effects at the micro level, because of the reactions of job searchers. A semi-structural model is developed and estimated on a British sample, testing for...

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