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Multiple Equilibria and Minimum Wages in Labour Markets with Informational Frictions and Heterogenous Production Technologies

den Berg, Gerard J van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

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 analyse a model with search frictions and heterogeneous production technologies, in which imposition of a minimum wage affects wages even though, after imposition, the...

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Scale Effects in Markets with Search

Petrongolo, Barbara; Pissarides, Christopher - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

Reduced-form tests of scale effects in markets with search, run when aggregate matching functions are estimated, may …

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Career Progression and Formal versus On-the-Job Training

Adda, Jérôme; Dustmann, Christian; Meghir, Costas; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

We develop a dynamic discrete choice model of training choice, employment and wage growth, allowing for job mobility, in a world where wages depend on firm-worker matches, as well as experience and tenure and jobs take time to locate. We estimate this model on a large administrative panel data...

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Heterogeneous Workers and International Trade

Grossman, Gene - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

productivity and efficiency via its impact on sorting and matching in the labor market. Some of the most recent contributions also …

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Matching and Sorting in a Global Economy

Grossman, Gene; Helpman, Elhanan; Kircher, Philipp - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

diminishing returns to the number of workers. We examine the sorting of factors to sectors and the matching of factors within …

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Are the Unemployed Unemployable?

Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992

This paper develops a matching model of the labour market under wage rigidity when hiring decisions are irreversible … increase in the productivity and/or the supply of skilled relative to unskilled workers. These effects are stronger when hiring …

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Characteristics of Economic Growth in the Netherlands During the Post-war Period

de Haan, Jakob; de Jong, Herman; Van Ark, Bart - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

capita income, whereas its labour productivity level -- notably in manufacturing -- remained relatively high. The Dutch …

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Is There a Trade-off between Unemployment and Productivity Growth?

Gordon, Robert J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

This paper shows how misleading is the facile contrast of Europe following a path of high productivity growth, high … shocks may initially create a positive trade-off between productivity and unemployment, they set in motion a dynamic path of … contributions of this paper are to show how a productivity-unemployment trade-off might emerge and how it might subsequently …

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Search Unemployment with Advance Notice

Garibaldi, Pietro - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

that such precautionary policy is not pursued if it entails sufficiently high productivity losses. If workers can search on …

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Car Ownership and the Labour Market of Ethnic Minorities

Gautier, Pieter A; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

We show how small initial wealth differences between low skilled black and white workers can generate large differences in their labour-market outcomes. This even occurs in the absence of a taste for discrimination against blacks or exogenous differences in the distance to jobs. Because of the...

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