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Spanish regional unemployment revisited: The role of capital accumulation

Bande, Roberto; Karannassou, Marika - 2010

This paper provides new evidence for the evolution of regional unemployment rates in Spain over the 1980-2000 period. We argue that interactive dynamic systems of labour demand, wage setting, and labour force equations (i) allow for a richer interpretation of regional disparities, and (ii) can...

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Wage dispersion between and within plants: Sweden 1985 - 2000

Nordström Skans, Oskar; Edin, Per-Anders; Holmlund, Bertil - 2006

The paper describes the Swedish wage distribution and how it correlates with worker mobility and plant-specific factors. It is well known that wage inequality has increased in Sweden since the mid-1980s. However, little evidence has so far been available as to whether this development reflects...

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Labor Mobility across the Formal/Informal Divide in Turkey: Evidence from Individual Level Data

Tansel, Aysit; Oznur Kan, Elif - 2012

Informality has long been a salient phenomenon in developing country labor markets, thus has been addressed in several theoretical and empirical research. Turkey, given its economic and demographic dynamics, provides rich evidence for a growing, heterogeneous and multifaceted informal labor...

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Job search methods, intensity and success in Britain in the 1990s

Böheim, René; Taylor, Mark P - 2002

We investigate the use of various job search strategies and their impact on the probability of subsequent employment and the re-employment wage among working age men in Britain. We find that replying to advertisements and using Job Centres are the two most common methods of job search and that...

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All aboard? Commuter train access and labor market outcomes

Åslund, Olof; Blind, Ina; Dahlberg, Matz - 2015

We investigate the impact of commuter train access on individual labor market outcomes. Our study considers the introduction of a commuter train on a pre-existing railroad in Sweden, considerably decreasing commuting times by public transit and hence increasing access to the regional employment...

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Labor market news and expectations about jobs & earnings

Schmidpeter, Bernhard - 2023

Little is known about how workers update expectations about job search and earnings when exposed to labor market news. To identify the impact of news on expectations, I exploit Foxconn's unexpected announcement to build a manufacturing plant in Racine County. Exposure to positive news leads to...

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Firm-level shocks and labor adjustments

Carlsson, Mikael; Messina, Julián; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2014

We analyze how firms adjust their labor in response to idiosyncratic shifts in their production function and demand curves using a unique data-set of Swedish manufacturing firms. We show that permanent shocks to firm-level demand is a main driving force behind both job and worker reallocation....

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Political economy of growth regimes in Poland and Turkey

Akcay, Ümit; Jungmann, Benjamin - 2022

regime. Using this framework, we examine the demand and growth regimes of Poland and Turkey from 1999 to 2020. We identify a … domestic demand-led regime in Poland between 1999 and 2008, which transitioned to a weakly export-led regime between 2009 and … themselves during the 2010s - represented by the PiS-party in Poland and the AKP in Turkey - pursue a growth strategy toward …

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Vacancy matching and labor market conditions

Stadin, Karolina - 2012

This paper studies the probability of filling a vacancy, how it varies with the number of unemployed and number of vacancies in the local labor market, and what impact it has on employment. A greater availability of unemployed workers should make it easier for a firm to fill a vacancy but more...

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The NRU and the evolution of regional disparities in Spanish unemployment

Bande, Roberto; Karanassou, Marika - 2011

On both theoretical and empirical grounds, this paper provides evidence that refutes the natural rate of unemployment (NRU) hypothesis as an explanation of the evolution of regional disparities in the unemployment rate. We first present our analytical framework, which follows the chain reaction...

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