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Josephson, Jens; Shapiro, Joel - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2008

information-based unemployment, where able workers are rejected by firms because of their lack of offers in previous interviews …

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Downsizing, job insecurity and firm reputation

Jeon, Doh-Shin; Shapiro, Joel - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2004

This paper studies how firms make layoff decisions in the presence of adverse shocks. In this uncertain environment, workers' expectations about their job security affect their on-the-job performance. This productivity effect on job insecurity forces firms to strike a balance between laying off...

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Employment protection, international specialization and innovation

Paul, Gilles Saint - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 1996

We develop a model to analyse the implications of firing costs on incentives for R&D and international specialization. The Key idea is paying the firing cost, the country with a rigid labor market will tend to produce relatively secure goods, at a late stage of their product life cycle. Under...

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Wage structures and family economies in the Catalan textile industry in an age of nascent capitalism

Camps, Enriqueta - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2003

This paper deals with changes in managerial practices in Catalonia in an age of nascent capitalism (1830-1925) and adaptive family strategies in order to face the absence of state welfare. During the 19 t h Century and in the absence of recorded labor contracts, human resources of the firm were...

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Labour market in the Catalan cotton textile sector: Employment and fertility (1850-1913)

Camps, Enriqueta - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2003

This paper deals whit the dynamics of the Catalan textile labour market (the Spanish region that concentrated most of the industrial and factory activity during the 19 Century) and offers hypotheses and results on the impact it had on living standards and fertility levels. We observe the...

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A positive theory of geographic mobility and social insurance

Hassler, John; Mora, José V. Rodríguez; Storesletten, … - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2001

in geographical mobility, unemployment and labor market institutions. Rational agents vote over unemployment insurance … high unemployment, low geographical mobility and high unemployment insurance, and one 'American' steady-state featuring low … unemployment, high mobility and low unemployment insurance. …

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Assesing the political viability of labour market reform: The case of employment protection

Paul, Gilles Saint - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 1998

We analyze the political support for employment protection legislation. Unlike my previous work on the same topic, this paper pays a lot of attention to the role of obsolescence in the growth process. In voting in favour of employment protection, incumbent employees trade off lower living...

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The political economy of employment protection

Paul, Gilles Saint - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 1999

This paper develops a model of job creation and job destruction in a growing economy with embodied technical progress, that we use to analyze the political support for employment protection legislations such as the ones that are observed in most European countries. We analyze the possibility of...

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Betting on exports: Trade and endogenous heterogeneity

Bonfiglioli, Alessandra; Gancia, Gino - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2014

We study the equilibrium determinants of firm-level heterogeneity in a model in which firms can choose between different probability distributions when drawing productivity at the entry stage and explore the implications in closed and open economy. One novel result is that export opportunities,...

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Unemployment in an estimated new Keynesian model

Galí, Jordi; Smets, Frank; Wouters, Rafael - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2011

We reformulate the Smets-Wouters (2007) framework by embedding the theory of unemployment proposed in Galí (2011a …,b). We estimate the resulting model using postwar U.S. data, while treating the unemployment rate as an additional observable … output gap. In addition, the estimated model can be used to analyze the sources of unemployment fluctuations. …

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