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Search, flows, job creations and destructions
Cahuc, Pierre - 2014
models have deeply renewed the understanding of job search, job flows, job creations and destructions, unemployment and wage … optimal level of unemployment benefits, the funding of unemployment insurance and the impact of employment protection …
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Towards a European full employment policy
Ritzen, Jo; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2018
Full employment in the European Union member states is a challenge but feasible, also in downswings of the business cycle and during stages of increased robotization. It requires a labor legislation that ensures flexibility and retraining, responsive labor sharing during the business cycle and...
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The costs of flexibility-enhancing structural reforms : a literature review
Boeri, Tito; Cahuc, Pierre; Zylberberg, André - 2015
This survey highlights the key results of the empirical literature concerning the costs of flexibility enhancing reforms in product and labour markets. The documented costs include reduced employment, loss of government revenue, undesirable distributional consequences and political instability....
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The detrimental effect of job protection on employment : evidence from France
Cahuc, Pierre; Malherbet, Franck; Prat, Julien - 2019
the fragility of low-seniority jobs implies that layoff costs reduce the average job duration and increase unemployment …
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The detrimental effect of job protection on employment : evidence from France
Cahuc, Pierre; Malherbet, Franck; Prat, Julien - 2019
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Reflections on wage-setting
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2018
Central banks need to be concerned about wages since they are a major driver of inflation. Rising wages are needed to signal directions for market adjustments to ensure growth. Wage growth is driven by relative scarcity, labor productivity and expectations about inflation and future growth....
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The post-unification German labor market
Bonin, Holger; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2000
active labor market policy, are only partly reported as unemployment. A review of the evidence on the effectiveness of labor … have alleviated social burdens from unemployment. Discussing what causes the high unemployment in the east, we claim that … effects of wage policy have been overrated. Differences in unemployment rates are also the result of more ample labor supply …
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Big data and unemployment analysis
Bratu, Mihaela; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2017
unemployment by means of internet activity data, a literature starting with the seminal article of Askitas and Zimmermann (2009a …
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When short-time work works
Cahuc, Pierre; Kramarz, Francis; Nevoux, Sandra - 2018
Short-time work programs were revived by the Great Recession. To understand their operating mechanisms, we first provide a model showing that short-time work may save jobs in firms hit by strong negative revenue shocks, but not in less severely-hit firms, where hours worked are reduced, without...
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Euroskepticism in the crisis : more mood than economy
Ritzen, Jozef M. M.; Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Wehner, Caroline - 2014
Before the Great Recession, rising income inequality within the European Union member states has been considered to be one driver for an increasing Euroskepticism. Using rich data on attitudes towards European integration from the Eurobarometer (EB) surveys, we revisit the issue by analyzing the...
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