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Input demand and the short- and long-run employment thresholds : an empirical analysis for the German manufacturing sector
Flaig, Gebhard; Rottmann, Horst - 2000
The concept of the employment threshold plays an important role in the public discussion of unemployment. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781535
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Okun in the euro : new evidence from structural Okun law's estimates for the euro area, 1979-2019
Campos, Nauro; Macchiarelli, Corrado; Mitropoulos, Fotios - 2024
This paper provides new estimates of Okun’s unemployment-output relationship in euro area countries between 1979 and … characterise the literature and that the responsiveness of output to unemployment is driven by idiosyncratic factors in both euro …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015052585
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Unemployment, growth and speed of transition in China
Fidrmuc, Jan; Huang, Shuo - 2013
We investigate the relationship between unemployment and growth in China. We find considerable differences in the … find a hump-shaped relationship between unemployment and our proxy for the speed of reform. The current unemployment in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010189833
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Sectoral Okun's law and cross-country cyclical differences
Goto, Eiji; Bürgi, Constantin - 2020
We estimate Okun's law, the negative relationship between output and the unemployment rate, at the sector level for the … coefficients are proportional to the aggregate in all four countries. We also show that the standard deviation of unemployment is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012166007
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Employment and reallocation effects of higher minimum wages
Drechsel-Grau, Moritz - 2023
to avoid elevated unemployment rates during the transition. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014267170
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Tourism and growth in the local labor
Conti, Laura; Francesconi, Marco; Papini, Giulio; … - 2025
activity, with a positive impact on tourism expenditure and tourism employment, but no effect on total employment. In high-unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015407788
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Unemployment in the United States and in Europe : a contrast and the reasons
Solow, Robert M. - 2000
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781501
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Does venture capital investment spur employment growth?
Belke, Ansgar; Fehn, Rainer; Foster-McGregor, Neil - 2003
Anglo-Saxon countries have been successful in the 1990s concerning labor market performance compared to the former role models Germany and Japan. This reversal in relative economic performance might be related to idiosyncracies in financial markets with bank-based financial markets as in Germany...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011507850
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Minimum wage and collective bargaining reforms : a narrative database for advanced economies
Afonso, António; Jalles, João Tovar; Venter, Zoe - 2022
impact on labor productivity and they lead to a fall in the unemployment rate. Collective bargaining reforms do not seem to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013176915
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Asymmetric information renders minimum wages less harmful
Schöb, Ronnie; Thum, Marcel - 2009
to lower unemployment levels than predicted by the standard labour market model with heterogeneous labour and symmetric … information. -- minimum wages ; unemployment ; asymmetric information ; labour market regulation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003833327