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stock and flow data to understand key developments. We find dramatic changes in employment, unemployment and labour market …
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shift hypothesis are the most important in explaining Dutch unemployment behavior during the postwar period. This means that … cyclical unemployment in the Netherlands can be viewed as a fluctuation of the natural rate of unemployment. …
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This paper investigates the differences in the matching process of job seekers and vacancies to be filled between different educational and occupational groups. To investigate this issue, matching functions are estimated across different occupations and educational cohorts, that is, on an even...
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In this paper, the authors incorporate a positive theory of unemployment insurance into a dynamic overlapping … unemployment insurance levels in a politico-conomic equilibrium. …
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I examine the dynamic evolutions of unemployment, hours of work and the service share since the war in the United … that the very low unemployment in Europe in the 1960s was due to the high productivity growth associated with technological …
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Recent research attempting to understand the behaviour of unemployment, and more generally the labour market itself …
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in this country. We argue that, due to such regulation, the French economy is locked at a high unemployment trap with low …
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This paper presents a general-equilibrium model of Innovation, endogenous growth, and unemployment in a disaggregated … economy. Unemployment is analyzed w ithin a dual labor market setting, where the labor market is consisting of a primary high … the economy's growth rate and the equilibrium unemployment rate. It can be shown in comparative static analyses, that the …
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We use a novel approach to studying the heterogeneity in the job finding rates of the nonemployed by classifying the nonemployed by labor force status (LFS) histories, instead of using only one-month LFS. Job finding rates differ substantially across LFS histories: they are 25-30% among those...
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In this paper we study the structure of labor market flows in Spain and compare them with France and the US. We characterize a number of empirical regularities and stylized facts. One striking result is that the job finding rate is slightly higher than in France, while the job loss rate is much...
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