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Beyond National Institutions : Labor Taxes and Regional Unemployment in Italy

Brunello, Giorgio; Lupi, Claudio; Ordine, Patrizia; … - 2003

By focusing on the Italian experience, we ask whether the relationship between labour taxes and unemployment varies across regions. In spite of similar national labour market institutions, we show that this relationship is significantly stronger in the highly industrialised North than in the...

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Beyond national institutions : labor taxes and regional unemployment in Italy

Brunello, Giorgio; Lupi, Claudio; Ordine, Patrizia; … - 2001

By focusing on the Italian experience, we ask whether the relationship between labor taxes and unemployment varies across regions. In spite of similar national labor market institutions, we show that this relationship is significantly stronger in the highly industrialized North than in the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011397928

High-impact minimum wages and heterogeneous regions : conference paper

Vom Berge, Philipp; Frings, Hanna; Paloyo, Alfredo R. - 2013

We estimate the effects on wage and employment growth rates of the introduction and subsequent increases of the minimum wage in the main construction industry of Germany. Using a regional dataset constructed from individual employment histories, we exploit the spatial dimension and border...

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High-impact minimum wages and heterogeneous regions

Vom Berge, Philipp; Frings, Hanna - 2017

We estimate the effects of the introduction and subsequent increases of a substantial minimum wage in Germany's main construction industry on wage and employment growth rates. Using a regional dataset constructed from individual employment histories, we exploit the spatial dimension and border...

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Wages, rents, unemployment, and the quality of life

Wrede, Matthias - 2012 - This version: June 2012

Combining a spatial equilibrium model with a search-matching unemployment model, this paper analyzes the willingness to pay for regional amenities and the regional quality of life when wages, rents, and unemployment risk compensate for local amenities and disamenities. The results are compared...

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Spatial aggregation bias in wage curve and NAWRU estimation

Persyn, Damiaan - 2020

I argue in this paper that the estimation of wage curves and NAWRUs at the country level suffers from spatial …

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Wages, Rents, Unemployment, and the Quality of Life

Wrede, Matthias - 2021

Combining a spatial equilibrium model with a matching unemployment model, this paper analyzes the regional quality of life when wages, rents, and unemployment risk compensate for local amenities and disamenities. In particular, the paper shows for quasi-linear utility that the effects of any...

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Compensation of regional unemployment in housing markets

Vermeulen, Wouter; Ommeren, Jos van - 2005

Why are regional unemployment differentials in Europe so persistent if, as the wage curve literature demonstrates, there is no compensation in labour markets? We hypothesize that workers in high-unemployment regions are compensated in housing markets. Modelling regional unemployment...

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The Spatial Distribution of Wages : Estimating the Helpman-Hanson Model for Germany

Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Schramm, Marc - 2004

Using German district data we estimate the structural parameters of a new economic geography model as developed by Helpman (1998) and Hanson (1998, 2001a). The advantage of the Helpman-Hanson model is that it incorporates the fact that agglomeration of economic activity increases the prices of...

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Side effects of the new German minimum wage on (un-)employment : first evidence from regional data

Garloff, Alfred - 2016

-in-differences type of specifications using a panel of region-age-sex cells. The results do not provide evidence in favor of a reduced …. Die ökonomische Theorie erlaubt keine eindeutige Aussage, ob negative Wirkungen auf Beschäftigung und Arbeitslosigkeit … auf Beschäftigung und Arbeitslosigkeit nachweisbar sind. Dazu nutzen wir die regionale Variation der Eingriffstiefe des …

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