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In recent decades most developed countries have experienced an increase in income inequality. In this paper, we use an equilibrium search framework to shed additional light on what is causing an income distribution to change. The major benefit of the model is that it can accommodate shocks to...
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using within-firm-state, across-market differences in wage and employment responses to state corporate tax changes in U …
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In my asymmetric-information model of layoffs, high-productivity workers are more likely to be recalled to their former employer and may choose to remain unemployed rather than to accept a low-wage job. In this case, unemployment can serve as a signal of productivity, and duration of...
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system (hukou). The major existing theoretical models of employment and development – the Lewis model, the integrated labor …
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extensive-margin labor supply elasticity. A calibration of the model to macro data not only matches employment and participation …
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the core family structure and contacts with parents and children away (in Britain) increases the probability of self-employment … employment. Finally, disaggregating different types of social networks along their compositional characteristics, we find that …-ethnic social networks facilitates paid employment among minority individuals. These findings hint at a positive role of social …
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cuts, both with or without over-education effects. Introducing over-education changes substantially the employment …
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impact of social security contributions on wages and employment …
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We evaluate the effects of outsourcing and wage solidarity on wage formation and equilibrium unemployment in a heterogeneous labour market, where wages are determined by a monopoly labour union. We find that outsourcing promotes the wage dispersion between the high-skilled and low-skilled...
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This paper presents a new model of firms' decisions on training in a context of potential worker mobility. Such worker mobility can be influenced by employers coordination, namely through the operation of no-poach agreements and employers' associations (EAs). We then present supporting evidence...
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