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impact on the employment situation but, in relation with the fall of the production, the observed destructions of jobs were … layoffs. Lastly, they could reduce volume of internal employment, but with less serious consequences for the stable contract … same which knows more the precarious employment, the underemployment and the recurrent unemployment. Moreover, one observes …
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This paper provides a critique of the "unemployment invariance hypothesis," according to which the behavior of the labor market ensures that the long-run unemployment rate is independent of the size of the capital stock, productivity, and the labor force. Using Solow growth and endogenous growth...
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productivity and employment growth across groups of countries within Europe. Throughout the postwar era until 1995 labor … employment per capita, leaving little difference in growth of output per capita between the EU and US going back to 1980. We … document the productivity-employment tradeoff in the raw data, in regressions that control for the two-way causation between …
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answer the question: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to (i) employment generation and dynamics, (ii) innovation … very important - but specific - function in the economy. They engender relatively much employment creation, productivity …, recent studies show that entrepreneurial firms produce important spillovers that affect regional employment growth rates of …
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The German model of co-determination (Mitbestimmung) with works councils, in which workers are involved in the management of a company, was a role model for other countries for many years. However, since the 1990s the appeal of works councils has been declining, to the extent that now even...
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We analyze the performance outcomes of National Hockey League (NHL) players over 18 seasons (1990-1991 to 2007-2008) as a function of the demographic conditions into which they were born. We have three main findings. First, larger birth cohorts substantially affect careers. A player born into a...
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Analysing a comprehensive panel dataset of economists working at Austrian, German, and Swiss universities, we investigate how the local environment influences a scientist’s research productivity. The research environment varies if a scientist joins another department or if the characteristics...
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Equilibrium search models are useful tools for the evaluation of labor market policies. Recently developed equilibrium search models of the labor market are able to fit the wage distribution perfectly with longitudinal labor supply data, by estimating an appropriate distribution of labor...
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Equilibrium search models are useful tools for the evaluation of labor market policies. Recently developed equilibrium search models of the labor market are able to fit the wage distribution perfectly with longitudinal labor supply data, by estimating an appropriate distribution of labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005150593
long way until the completion of the employment adjustment, the still insufficient development of the private sector …
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