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Product market imperfections and employment dynamics

Carlsson, Mikael; Eriksson, Stefan; Gottfries, Nils - 2011 - rev.

How important is imperfect competition in the product market for employment dynamics? To investigate this, we formulate a theoretical model of employment adjustment with imperfect competition in the product market, search frictions, and convex adjustment costs. From this model, we derive a...

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Fixed wage contracts and monetary non-neutrality

Björklund, Maria; Carlsson, Mikael; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2016

We study the importance of wage rigidities for the monetary policy transmission mechanism. Using uniquely rich micro data on Swedish wage negotiations, we isolate periods when the labor market is covered by fixed wage contracts. Importantly, negotiations are coordinated in time but their...

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Endogenous separations, wage rigidities and employment volatility

Carlsson, Mikael; Westermark, Andreas - 2016

are flexible, the standard deviation of unemployment in a model with rigid wages for incumbent workers (only) matches the …

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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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Social interactions and unemployment

Åberg, Yvonne (contributor); Hedström, Peter (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Does tax evasion affect unemployment and educational choice?

Kolm, Ann-Sofie (contributor); Larsen, Birthe (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Testing theories of job creation : does supply create its own demand?

Carlsson, Mikael (contributor); Eriksson, Stefan (contributor) - 2006

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