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This paper reviews recent developments in nonparametric identi.cation of mea- surement error models and their applications in applied microeconomics, in particular, in empirical industrial organization and labor economics. Measurement error models describe mappings from a latent distribution to...
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When hiring new workers, employers use a wide variety of different recruiting methods in addition to posting a vacancy announcement, such as adjusting education, experience or technical requirements, or offering higher wages. The intensity with which employers make use of these alternative...
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This paper explores potential gendered effects of employment protection on earnings mobility, differentiating between upward and downward movements. We conduct a micro-macro mobility analysis for 23 European countries over the economic downturn period 2008–2014. The results confirm that,...
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This paper analyzes the dynamic effects of different macroeconomic shocks on unemployment in Germany. In a first step …, a cointegration analysis of productivity, prices, real wages, employment, and the unemployment rate reveals two long run … display that price, demand, and labor supply shocks affect unemployment significantly in the short/medium run. Interestingly …
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such as unemployment. Previous studies indicate that monetary policy affects the output gap only at business cycle … frequencies, but the effects on unemployment may well be more persistent in countries with highly regulated labor markets. We … study the Swedish experience of unemployment and monetary policy. Using a structural VAR we find that around 30 percent of …
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This paper analyses the impact of the global economic crisis on unemployment and long term unemployment in the OECD. It … unemployment increases with the unemployment rate, there is persistence in long term unemployment, and that the employment … significant financial crisis and a collapse of the housing market bubble have had large increases in unemployment and long term …
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-aggregation correction does not alter the unemployment decomposition using the monthly survey, it does so when using the quarterly survey. …
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In this paper the effects of institutional variables on unemployment are reinvestigated for nine OECD countries. The … unemployment may differ across countries, not only in absolute terms but also in terms of sign. The main results are the following … have a hump-shaped or U-shaped relation to the unemployment rate. All things considered, the results make strong …
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This paper analyzes the dynamic effects of different macroeconomic shocks on unemployment in Germany. In a first step …, a cointegration analysis of productivity, prices, real wages, employment, and the unemployment rate reveals two long run … display that price, demand, and labor supply shocks affect unemployment significantly in the short/medium run. Interestingly …
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This study examines the relationship between unemployment and labor force participation to judge the presence of the … discouraged worker/added worker/unemployment invariance effect in the US labor market, spanning the period 1976-2014. Panel unit … unemployment and labor force participation rates, while the impact of unemployment on labor force participation is negative …
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