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Unpacking the persistence of informality

Villena-Roldán, Benjamin - 2024

In emerging economies, policymakers should care not only about the informality level but also about its persistence, which also has key welfare implications. Considering worker flows that drive people into informality is important for developing effective public policies. Using a Markov...

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Unemployment and inflation in Western Europe: solution by the boundary element method

Kitov, Ivan; Kitov, Oleg - 2009

Using an analog of the boundary element method in engineering and science, we analyze and model unemployment rate in Austria, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States as a function of inflation and the change in labor force. Originally, the model linking unemployment to...

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Endogenous Labor Force Participation and Firing Costs

Moon, Weh-Sol - 2009

I construct a matching model to explain the labor market transition between employment, unemployment and nonparticipation, and evaluate the quantitative effects of firing costs. The model has several features that are distinguished from previous studies: endogenous labor force participation,...

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Firing Tax vs. Severance Payment - An Unequal Comparison

Wesselbaum, Dennis - 2009

The effects of firing costs crucially depend on the extend to which the additional costs can be shifted to the worker, which refers to the so called "bonding critique". In the recent literature about firing costs, these costs are assumed to be a wasteful tax, such that they can not be shifted to...

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Die Arbeitslosenversicherung in Deutschland – Beitrag zur Bekämpfung oder Ursache von Arbeitslosigkeit

Breiding, Torsten - 2006

Abstract German (English abstract is added below) Arbeitslosigkeit gilt als eines der schwerwiegendsten … Arbeitslosigkeit, für die anhaltende Beschäftigungskrise vor? Und in welchem Umfang hat das deutsche Sozial- und Wohlfahrtssystem zu … die Aufgabe einer Arbeitslosenversicherung die soziale Absicherung im Falle einer möglichen, temporären Arbeitslosigkeit …

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Unemployment, Inflation and Monetary Policy in a Dynamic New Keynesian Model with Hiring Costs

Abbritti, Mirko; Boitani, Andrea; Damiani, Mirella - 2006

The dynamic general equilibrium model with hiring costs presented in this paper delivers involuntary unemployment in the steady state and involuntary fluctuations in unemploy- ment. After calibrating the model, through simulations we are able to show that our model with labour market...

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Introduzione allo studio dei modelli di "matching" del mercato del lavoro

Lisi, Gaetano - 2010

Matching models are the primary and most popular theoretical tools used by economists to evaluate various labour market policies and to study the problem of unemployment. These notes mean to provide an exhaustive introduction to the study of the benchmark macroeconomic models of the labour market.

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Recent reforms of the tax and benefit systems in the framework of flexicurity

Carone, Giuseppe; Stovicek, Klara; Pierini, Fabiana; … - 2009

This paper provides an analysis of recent reforms of tax-benefit systems and a preliminary assessment of their impact on financial incentives to work and on labour supply. Many Member States have introduced policies to “make work pay” and have targeted low-wage workers with the aim of...

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Labour market prospects and policies to soften the impact of the financial crisis

Carone, Giuseppe; Koopman, Gert Jan; Pichelmann, Karl - 2009

The global downturn is now strongly affecting EU labour markets. In light of the downward revision to the growth projections and the uncertainty created by the financial meltdown, the outlook for employment has deteriorated considerably. This would also be consistent with the experience from...

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Minimum Wages and Youth Employment

Gorry, Aspen - 2010

Significant employment differences between the US and Europe are concentrated among young workers. This paper constructs a labor search model that accounts for age patterns of employment. Work experience reduces the probability that workers lose their jobs. By introducing minimum wages, the...

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