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Employment and Wage Effects of Social Security Financing: An Empirical Analysis of the West German Experience and some Policy Simulations

Steiner, Viktor - 1996

This paper follows up recent work on the relationship between (un?)employment and wage effects of social security …

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Gender gaps across countries and skills: Supply, demand and the industry structure

Olivetti, Claudia; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2011

The gender wage gap varies widely across countries and across skill groups within countries. Interestingly, there is a positive cross-country correlation between the unskilled-to-skilled gender wage gap and the corresponding gap in hours worked. Based on a canonical supply and demand framework,...

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The evolution of gender gaps in industrialized countries

Olivetti, Claudia; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2016

Women in developed economies have made major inroads in labor markets throughout the past century, but remaining gender differences in pay and employment seem remarkably persistent. This paper documents long-run trends in female employment, working hours and relative wages for a wide...

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Reservation wages and the wage flexibility puzzle

Koenig, Felix; Manning, Alan; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2016

Wages are only mildly cyclical, implying that shocks to labour demand have a larger short-run impact on unemployment …

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The Ins and Outs of European Unemployment

Petrongolo, Barbara; Pissarides, Christopher - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

In this paper we study the contribution of inflows and outflows to the dynamics of unemployment in three European …

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Punitive sanctions and the transition rate from welfare to work

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Klaauw, Bas van der; Ours, Jan … - VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Economics, Business … - 1998

In The Netherlands, the average exit rate out of welfare is dramatically low. Most welfare recipients have to comply with guidelines on job search effort that are imposed by the welfare agency. If they do not, then a sanction in the form of a temporarily benefit reduction can be imposed. This...

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Unequal Pay or Unequal Employment? A Cross-Country Analysis of Gender Gaps

Olivetti, Claudia; Petrongolo, Barbara - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

Gender wage and employment gaps are negatively correlated across countries. We argue that non-random selection of women into work explains an important part of such correlation and thus of the observed variation in wage gaps. The idea is that, if women who are employed tend to have relatively...

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The Effect of Search Frictions on Wages

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Vuuren, Aico van - Tinbergen Institute - 2006

Labor market theories allowing for search frictions make marked predictions on the effect of the degree of frictions on wages. Often, the effect is predicted to be negative. Despite the popularity of these theories, this has never been tested. We perform tests with matched worker-firm data. The...

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Measuring the equilibrium effects of unemployment benefits dispersion

Vuuren, Aico van; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Ridder, Geert - VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Economics, Business … - 1999

We analyze the impact of unemployment benefits and minimum wages using an equilibrium search model which allows for … dispersion of benefits and productivity levels, job-to-job transitions, and structural and frictional unemployment. The … estimation method uses readily available aggregate data on marginal distributions of unemployment durations as well as wages and …

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Combining micro and macro unemployment data

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Klaauw, Bas van der - VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Economics, Business … - 1998

We combine micro and macro unemployment duration data to study the effects of the business cycle on the outflow from … unemployment. We allow the cycle to affect individual exit probabilities of unemployed workers as well as the composition of the … total inflow into unemployment. We estimate the model using (micro) survey data and (macro) administrative data from France …

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