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Then and now: Reflections on two Australian mining booms

Gregory, Robert G. - 2011

Australia is experiencing its largest mining boom for more than a century and a half. This paper explores, from a national perspective, important economic differences that arise when a mining boom, such as the current one, is generated by export price increases (trading gains) rather than export...

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Then and Now: Reflections on Two Australian Mining Booms

Gregory, Bob - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

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Flight of the H-1B: Inter-Firm Mobility and Return Migration Patterns for Skilled Guest Workers

Depew, Briggs; Norlander, Peter; Sorensen, Todd - 2013

a vehicle for adjusting the number of visas during a recession. We study the job mobility of highly-skilled Indian IT …-year firm level dataset to show that, outside of the Great Recession, these workers are mobile and that lower paid guest workers … the Great Recession. This partially mitigates concerns that guest worker visa programs do not adjust to fluctuations in …

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Does Short-Time Work Save Jobs? A Business Cycle Analysis

Balleer, Almut; Gehrke, Britta; Lechthaler, Wolfgang; … - 2013

In the Great Recession most OECD countries used short-time work (publicly subsidized working time reductions) to …

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Wage Cyclicality and Labour Market Institutions

Pereira, João; Ramos, Raul; Martins, Pedro S. - 2024

Do labour institutions influence how wages respond to the business cycle? Such responsiveness can then shape several economic outcomes, including unemployment. In this paper, we examine the role of two key labour market institutions - collective bargaining and temporary contracts - upon wage...

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Deaths Rise in Good Economic Times: Evidence From the OECD

Gerdtham, Ulf-G.; Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2003

This study uses aggregate data for 23 OECD countries over the 1960-1997 period to examine the relationship between macroeconomic conditions and fatalities. The main finding is that total mortality and deaths from several common causes increase when labor markets strengthen. For instance,...

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Individuals' Unemployment Durations over the Business Cycle

Kalwij, Adriaan S. - 2001

Using a large panel of administrative records this study confirms the predictions of the ranking model of Blanchard and Diamond (1994) that an individual?s probability of leaving unemployment decreases with unemployment duration and increases with economic growth. However, the ranking model of...

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Individuals' Unemployment Experiences: Heterogeneity and Business Cycle Effects

Kalwij, Adriaan S. - 2001

This study examines individuals? unemployment experiences from the age of 18 up to the age of 35 using a large panel of administrative records on unemployment related benefit claims of men in the United Kingdom over the past two decades. The main focus is on the extent to which individuals?...

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Macroeconomic Policy Lessons of Labor Market Frictions

Yashiv, Eran - 2002

The paper explores the consequences of macroeconomic policy for labor market outcomes in the presence of frictions. It shows how policy may be useful in overriding frictions, as well as how it might generate adverse outcomes. The analysis looks at the main tools of macroeconomic policy and...

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The European Phillips curve: does the NAIRU exist?

Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Héctor; Snower, Dennis J. - 2003

This paper has two aims. First, it provides simple theoretical models that highlight two channels whereby monetary shocks have permanent real effects and the interactions between these channels. Second, it presents an empirical dynamic model, covering a panel of EU countries, and derives the...

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