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This paper provides a survey of the recent literature about firing costs and discusses the transmission channels of firing costs in a partial equilibrium context. In addition, we expand our analysis two types of firing costs in a New Keynesian model with purely endogenous separations. We further...
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This paper provides a new perspective by classifying active labor market programs (ALMPs) depending on their main objectives and their relevance and cost-effectiveness during normal times, during a crisis, and during recovery. We distinguish ALMPs that provide: (i) incentives for retaining...
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, phenomena, and history. Given the key role that the Non-Accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemployment (NAIRU) has in the …
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This paper provides a new perspective in classifying ALMPs depending on their main objective, also in light of their relevance and cost-effectiveness during normal times, during a crisis, and during recovery. We distinguish ALMPs that provide incentives for retaining employment, incentives for...
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This survey focuses on experimental labor markets investigating two aspects that deem us important for a better understanding of labor market relations and the consequences for labor market policies. The first part of the survey is dedicated to papers that assess the prevalence of reciprocal...
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set of formal and informal market-regulating and market-stabilising institutions. The following positive institutional …
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and thedecline in labor market institutions are three interrelated phenomena. The focus on the interdependence of these … addresses the problem of interaction (and thus competition) among countries with different systems of labor market institutions … institutions in a world with ever growing interdependence among countries (Agell 1999, Freeman 1998), the model presented in this …
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Changing the behaviour of firms to take environmental concerns into account is seen as unlikely without effective regulations. However, corporations are increasingly keen to represent themselves as ‘green’, including those in the world’s largest manufacturing sector: the car industry....
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This thesis investigates the role of institutions in shaping macroeconomic phenomena. The first two chapters focus on … financial institutions, formalizing interactions between information and competition in frictional credit markets and providing … relationship between political institutions and growth.In Chapter 1, I construct a credit-based model of production to analyze how …
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