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This paper shows that we can normalize job and worker characteristics so that, without frictions,there exists a linear relationship between wages on the one hand and worker and job type indiceson the other. However, for five European countries and the United States we find strong evidencefor a...
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Using data from the Current Population Survey from 1980 through 2010 we examine what drives variation andcyclicality in the growth rate of real wages over time. We employ a novel decomposition technique that allowsus to divide the time series for median weekly earnings growth into the part...
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It is often argued that a mandatory minimum wage is binding only if the wage density displays a spike at it. In this paper we analyze a model with wage setting, search frictions, and heterogeneous production technologies, in which imposition of a minimum wage affects wages even though, after...
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ILO pub. Article on comparison of causes and economic policy implications concerning unemployment in Germany, Federal …, considers effects of wages and social security benefits on labour mobility, analyses structural unemployment and frictional … unemployment, and finds that the majority of unemployment is due to insufficient demand and, therefore, macro- economic in nature …
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ILO pub. Article on the notion of 'voluntary' unemployment in developed countries and in developing countries … - analyses six behavioural characteristics attributed to unemployed workers suspected of indulging in voluntary unemployment (e ….g. Excessive wages aspirations, preference for part time employment, etc.), considers possible effects of unemployment benefit, and …
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types of sponsors and projects, objectives of reducing unemployment, characteristics and duration of participation, impacts …
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Describes the data collecting methodology for statistics on employment, unemployment, hours of work and wages used in …
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Criticizes the standard international definition of unemployment as being too restrictive to measure accurately … unemployment in labour- surplus economies. Using Indonesia as a basis, proposes a definition which is based on trends in real wages …
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