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bargaining, minimum wages, employment protection and unemployment benefits affect the way in which wages respond to labor supply … decline with the unemployment rate, albeit imperfectly. We find that wage flexibility is substantially higher in the UK … compared to Germany and, in particular, Denmark. As a consequence, immigration has a much larger effect on the unemployment …
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bargaining, minimum wages, employment protection and unemployment benefits affect the way in which wages respond to labor supply … decline with the unemployment rate, albeit imperfectly. We find that wage flexibility is substantially higher in the UK … compared to Germany and, in particular, Denmark. As a consequence, immigration has a much larger effect on the unemployment …
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the assumption that wages respond to a change in the unemployment rate, albeit imperfectly. This allows one to derive the … through immigration increases the aggregate unemployment rate by less than 0.1 percentage points and reduces average wages by … less 0.1 percent. While native workers benefit from increased wages and lower unemployment, foreign workers are adversely …
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unemployment rate. In line with theory, we find that firms possess more monopsony power during economic downturns, which shows to …
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unemployment rate. In line with theory, we find that firms possess more monopsony power during economic downturns, which shows to …
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unemployment rate. In line with theory, we find that firms possess more monopsony power during economic downturns, which shows to …
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unemployment rate. In line with theory, we find that firms possess more monopsony power during economic downturns, which shows to …
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One of the factors likely to affect the market power of employers is the sensitivity of the flow of recruits to the offered wage, but there is very little research on this. This paper presents a methodology for estimating the wage elasticity of recruitment and applies it to German data. Our...
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