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Mismatch Explanations of European Unemployment

A Critical Evaluation

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  • © 1998

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Authors:
  1. Horst Entorf

    1. Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

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  • Looking for the sources of European unemployment: Is the mismatch hypothesis valid?
  • All the basics are explained in a simple, straightforward manner
  • The reader is introduced into the theory of spurious mismatch trends

Part of the book series: European and Transatlantic Studies (EUROPEANSTUDIES)

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XI
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  2. Mismatch Explanations of European Unemployment

    • Horst Entorf
    Pages 1-10

  3. Do aggregate measures of mismatch measure mismatch? A time series analysis of existing concepts

    • Horst Entorf
    Pages 11-53

  4. Disaggregate matching functions, spurious mismatch and occupational reallocation in Germany

    • Horst Entorf
    Pages 55-138

  5. Matching and new technologies: Does unmeasured ability explain the higher wages of new-technology workers?

    • Horst Entorf
    Pages 139-190

  6. Conclusions

    • Horst Entorf
    Pages 191-195

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 197-206
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About this book

The peristence of European unemployment stands in striking contrast to the cyclical pattern of unemployment in the US. Many people attribute the rise in European unemployment to increased imbalances between the pattern of labour demand and supply - in other words, to greater mismatch, but existing mismatch indicators do not support this view. However, the obvious inference is not legitimate because the evidence is based on trended data, and thus gives rise to spurious statistical results. To get around the problem, the author uses the dynamic flow approach to structural unemployment and disaggregated data. The reader will find new results on "non-spurious" mismatch tendencies, occupational reallocation, the matching of apprentices, and the importance of matching and mobility for wage differentials.

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"This well-documetned book gives intersting suggestions and provides a good synthesis of the mismatch theory, to whose development the author contributed. It will no doubt be useful to econometrists."
European Review

Authors and Affiliations

  • Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

    Horst Entorf

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Mismatch Explanations of European Unemployment

  • Book Subtitle: A Critical Evaluation

  • Authors: Horst Entorf

  • Series Title: European and Transatlantic Studies

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-58919-5

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1998

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-64056-1Published: 16 April 1998

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-63789-6Published: 13 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-58919-5Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1431-3006

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 206

  • Topics: Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods

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