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Disaggregating Okun's Law : Decomposing the Impact of the Expenditure Components of GDP on Euro Area Unemployment
Anderton, Robert - 2014
This paper examines the usefulness of the Okun relationship as a “rule of thumb” for predicting changes in unemployment … differential reaction of unemployment to changes in the various expenditure components of GDP - significantly enhances the capacity … of the Okun relationship (in comparison to the aggregate “rule of thumb”) for predicting movements in unemployment. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013043078
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Firm Responses to Employment Subsidies : A Regression Discontinuity Approach to the 2012 Spanish Labour Market Reform
Gamberoni, Elisa - 2017
This study focuses on the employment effect of a hiring subsidy available to firms with less than 50 employees, granted in the context of the 2012 Spanish labour market reform. Exploiting the arbitrary firm size threshold using regression discontinuity design, estimates show on average 2...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012965549
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Wage structure effects of international trade: evidence from a small open economy
Du Caju, Philip; Rycx, François; Tojerow, Ilan - 2011
In the last decades, international trade has increased between industrialised countries and between high- and low-wage countries. This important change has raised questions on how international trade affects the labour market. In this spirit, this paper aims to investigate the impact of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605371
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Changes in the wage structure in EU countries
Christopoulou, Rebekka; Jimeno, Juan F.; Lamo, Ana - 2010
We study changes in the wage structures in nine EU countries over 1995-2002 and the role of demand, supply and institutional developments in shaping these changes. Using comparable cross-country microeconomic data, we compute for each country and at each decile of the wage distribution, the part...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605245
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Changes in the Czech wage structure: Does immigration matter?
Dybczak, Kamil; Galuščák, Kamil - 2010
Using the Albrecht et al. (2003) version of the Machado and Mata (2005) decomposition technique along the wage distribution, we find that immigrant workers do not affect changes in the Czech wage structure between 2002 and 2006 despite their substantial inflows. Instead, changes in the wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605288
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Changes in the Austrian structure of wages, 1996-2002: evidence from linked employer-employee data
Pointner, Wolfgang; Stiglbauer, Alfred - 2010
decomposition technique which allows to attribute changes in each wage decile to changes in worker and workplace characteristics and … age and market-driven effects such as changes in returns and changing workplace characteristics contributed to a higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605314
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Changes in the Austrian Structure of Wages, 1996-2002 : Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data
Pointner, Wolfgang - 2010
decomposition technique which allows to attribute changes in each wage decile to changes in worker and workplace characteristics and … age and market-driven effects such as changes in returns and changing workplace characteristics contributed to a higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136100
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The Incidence of Nominal and Real Wage Rigidity : An Individual-Based Sectoral Approach
Messina, Julián - 2010
This paper presents estimates based on individual data of downward nominal and real wage rigidities for thirteen sectors in Belgium, Denmark, Spain and Portugal. Our methodology follows the approach recently developed for the International Wage Flexibility Project, whereby resistance to nominal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013142586
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Changes in the Wage Structure in EU Countries
Christopoulou, Rebekka - 2010
We study changes in the wage structures in nine EU countries over 1995-2002 and the role of demand, supply and institutional developments in shaping these changes. Using comparable cross-country microeconomic data, we compute for each country and at each decile of the wage distribution, the part...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013143632
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Wages Are Flexible, Aren’t They? Evidence from Monthly Micro Wage Data
Lunnemann, Patrick - 2012
This paper assesses the degree of wage flexibility in Luxembourg using an administrative data set on individual base wages covering the entire economy over the period 2001-2006 with monthly frequency. We find that the wage flexibility at the discretion of the firm is rather low once we limit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013116943