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On the Identification of Relative Wage Rigidity Dynamics

Puhani, Patrick A. - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2000

relative wage and unemployment differentials for various labour market defining characteristics. A simultaneous increase in the … relative wage and the unemployment likelihood is defined as relative wage rigidity dynamic for a labour market characteristic …

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Do public works programs work? : some unpleasant results from the East German experience

Kraus, Florian; Puhani, Patrick A.; Steiner, Viktor - 1998

We analyze the effectiveness of public works programs (PWP, Arbeitsbeschaffungsmaßnahmen) in east Germany as measured by their effects on individual future reemployment probabilities in regular jobs. These are estimated by discrete hazard rate models on the basis of individual-level panel data....

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Advantage through training? : a microeconometric evaluation of the employment effects of active labour market programmes in Poland

Puhani, Patrick A. - 1998

: intervention works prolong unemployment for both genders as do public works for men. The number of observations on women in public …

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Informal unemployment and education

Kolm, Ann-Sofie; Larsen, Birthe - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 5 (2016) 8, pp. 1-36

incentives as it reduces the attractiveness of remaining a low-educated worker. However, unemployment also increases …

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In-work benefits and the Nordic model

Kolm, Ann-Sofie; Tonin, Mirco - 2013

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Optimal taxation in search equilibrium with home production

Engström, Per; Holmlund, Bertil; Kolm, Ann-Sofie - 2001

services are produced both in the market and within the households. We use the model to examine how unemployment and welfare … reduces unemployment whereas a tax cut on goods has no effect. A reform involving tax differentiation, with lower taxes on …

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Moral, the informal sector, and unemployment

Kolm, Ann-Sofie; Larsen, Birthe - 2001

facilitates an analysis of how wage setting and unemployment is affected by punishment policies, which is ignored in the previous …

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Wages, unemployment, and the underground economy

Kolm, Ann-Sofie; Larsen, Birthe - 2001

both sectors, and (iii) reduces the unemployment rate. The effect of a higher audit rate is less clear. We find that a … ambiguous impact on unemployment and real wages. …

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Multitasking, education, and unemployment as determinants of work-related mental health

Pikos, Anna Katharina - 2017

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Underground activities and labour market performance

Kolm, Ann-Sofie; Larsen, Birthe - 2018

We build a general equilibrium model in terms of a search and matching model with an informal sector. We consider the impact of the traditional policy instruments considered in the tax evasion literature, such as changes in the tax- and punishment system as well as changes in the employment...

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