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dynamics of employment and unemployment in order to identify key issues for the sources of the malfunctioning of these labour …
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spirit of Blanchard and Summers (1988), the model can generate multiple equilibria, with a low-quits/high-unemployment … equilibrium coexisting with a high-quits/low-unemployment equilibrium. Under weak conditions, low-unemployment equilibria Pareto … dominate high-unemployment equilibria. Mobility premia improve aggregate welfare but may increase unemployment. …
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have increased the risk of unemployment entry, and to a lesser extent also the duration of unemployment. This is different …In this paper we look at the effects of immigration and trade with Eastern Europe on unemployment in Austria. Using … possible detrimental impacts in unemployment entry effects and unemployment duration effects. We find that unemployment entry …
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unemployment, and relatively greater income equality, with the opposite path being pursued by the United States. While structural … 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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We construct an overlapping generations model with unemployment risk where wages, employment and severance payments are … set through efficient bargaining between risk averse Unions and risk neutral firms. Assuming that a First Best cannot be …
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inequality and raises unemployment, but expected welfare gains are ensured if workers are risk neutral. And while wage inequality …
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risk aversion, we find that consumer behaviour changes strikingly over the life-cycle. Young consumers behave as buffer …
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The purpose of this paper is to link the propensity for innovative activity to cluster spatially to the stage of the industry life cycle. The theory of knowledge spillovers, based on the knowledge production function for innovative activity, suggests that geographic proximity matters most in...
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poverty trap, the size of the cohort at risk, and migrant stock dynamics. It then projects the life cycle up to 2024. The …
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This paper is a quantitatively-oriented theoretical study into the interaction between housing prices, aggregate production, and household behavior over a lifetime. We develop a life-cycle model of a production economy in which land and capital are used to build residential and commercial real...
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