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Inequality and Employment Sensitivities to theFalling Labour Share

Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

This paper aims at identifying the labour share (wage-productivity gap) as a major factor inthe evolution of inequality and employment. To this end, we use annual data for the US, UKand Sweden over the past forty years and estimate country-specific systems of labourdemand and Gini coefficient...

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Incentive Effects of Unemployment InsuranceSavings Accounts: Evidence from Chile

Reyes Hartley, Gonzalo; Ours, Jan C. van; Vodopivec, Milan - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010

This study examines the determinants of job-finding rates of unemployment benefit recipientsunder the Chilean program … unemployment insurance programs. Our study is the first one to empiricallyinvestigate whether UISAs improve work incentives. We … find that for beneficiaries using theSF, the pattern of job finding rates over the duration of unemployment is consistent …

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