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A fair wage explanation of labour market volatility
Jump, Robert - 2014
unemployment across a sample of OECD countries. Using an incomplete markets variant of the fair wage real business cycle model …, increases in the gross replacement rate of public unemployment insurance are shown to increase the volatility of employment, and … which unemployment is endogenised in the model. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010437753
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Wage cyclicalities and labor market dynamics at the establishment level : theory and evidence
Merkl, Christian; Stüber, Heiko - 2017
Using the new AWFP dataset that covers all German establishments, we document a substantial cross-sectional heterogeneity of establishments' average real wages over the business cycle. While the median establishments' real wages are procyclical, there is a large fraction of establishments with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011735900
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Some like it hot : assessing longer-term labor market benefits from a high-pressure economy
Hotchkiss, Julie L.; Moore, Robert E. - 2018
Surveys of Youth, we find that negative labor market outcomes during high-unemployment periods are mitigated by exposure to a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011791237
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The performance of immigrants in the German labor market
Beyer, Robert - 2017
This paper uses a large survey (SOEP) to update and deepen our knowledge about the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. It documents that immigrant workers initially earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011598931
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Wage employment, unemployment and self-employment across countries
Poschke, Markus - 2023
unemployment relative to wage employment, and that self-employment increases with this ratio. To understand the sources of these … matches, and calibrate it to match all transition rates between wage employment, unemployment and self-employment as well as … that labor market frictions affect self-employment as much as unemployment. Labor market frictions also reduce aggregate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014310911
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Demographic, employment, and wage trends in South Africa
Bhorat, Haroon; Naidoo, Karmen; Oosthuizen, Morné; … - 2015
This paper looks to uncover the growth traps and opportunities for the South African economy, with a focus on underlying labour market dynamics. We explore the potential of South Africa’s demographic dividend. We also consider the structure of the labour market and the growth-employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011414938
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Supply shocks and the factor price frontier : labour market adjustment in the United States and Germany
Hornung, Dietmar; Schimmelpfennig, Axel; Wapler, Rüdiger - 1998
employment remains constant. With a rigid wage rate, a rise in unemployment of unskilled labour follows. The model explains the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010407084
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Does employment protection unprotect workers? : the labor market effects of job reinstatements in Peru
Jiménez, Bruno; Rendón, Sílvio - 2020
We investigate the labor market effects of the reestablishment of private-sector workers' right to reinstatement for unfair dismissals, which occurred in 2002 in Peru. Using data from Peruvian Household Surveys from 2004 to 2015, and the Specialized Employment Survey 1998-2001, we estimate a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012315260
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Rejuvenating Greece's labour market to generate more and higher-quality jobs
Bulman, Tim - 2020
picking up. Unemployment remained high and employment rates were low, especially among women, the young and older workers. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012304424
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Wage losses and inequality in developing countries : labor market and distributional consequences of Covid-19 lockdowns in Turkey
Duman, Anil - 2020
We develop a possibility to work index (PWI) taking the ability to work from home and workplace closures into account. By using the data from the HLFS in Turkey, we examine the individual level determinants of PWI. Our findings reveal that PWI and ability to work from home are significantly...
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