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What are the impacts of labor tax reform on wage setting and employment to keep therelative tax burden per low-skilled and high-skilled workers constant in the case ofheterogenous domestic labor markets, i.e. imperfect competition in low-skilled labor andperfect competition in high-skilled labor...
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in-work benefits on search intensity, participation, employment, and unemployment,compared to a framework in which wages …
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We explore whether finance influences the impact of labour market institutions onunemployment. Using a data set of 18 …
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regulations leadto a simultaneous reduction in informality and unemployment. The difference between thesetwo policy options lies …
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unemployment insurance, when thelatter is only imperfectly related to search effort. A balanced social insurance budget …
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use a New Keynesian model with unemployment to predict the effects ofdifferent labor market institutions on macroeconomic …This paper analyzes the effects of different labor market institutions on inflation and outputvolatility. The eurozone … labor market institutions have a large effect on output volatility, they donot seem to have much of an effect on inflation …
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lower structural rate of unemployment. We establish this fact using:(i) panel data from 20 OECD countries, (ii) cross … within-country trade. Our main findingis robust to various definitions of unemployment rates and openness measures … institutions do notappear to condition the effect of openness.... …
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Post World War II European welfare states experienced several decades of relatively low unemployment, followed by a … plague of persistently high unemployment since the 1980s. We impute the higher unemployment to welfare states' diminished … search model where workers accumulate skills on the job and lose skills during unemployment. …
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This paper examines the effects of collectively agreed increases in real minimum wages on employment transitions and hours among manual workers in the Swedish retail sector over the period 2001–05. The findings indicate that increases in real minimum wages are associated with more separations,...
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other macro] determinants of the rates of dependent employmentwithout a contract, informal self-employment, and unemployment …
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