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Whodunnit? Changes in the Relative Demand for Unskilled and Skilled Labor

Schimmelpfennig, Axel - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1999

relative wage of the skilled. Increasing unemployment results only for a restrictive assumption about labor market rigidities. …

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Working-week flexibility: Implications for employment and productivity

Osuna, Victoria - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

This paper evaluates the implications for employment, productivity and wages of allowing for more flexibility in weekly hours worked introduced in the recent Spanish labour market reform (the 2012 reform). A crucial aspect of the model will be the extent to which firms will be able to choose the...

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Provision of public goods, voting and agglomerative bias

Kopp, Andreas - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1998

Skill-biased technical change is identified as the driving force behind the changing skill composition in OECD countries rather than structural change. The finding is partly the result of the sectoral view taken. This paper suggests a different view which uses the production process as a...

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Macroeconomic Relaxation: Adjustment Processes of Hierarchical Economic Structures

Hawkins, Raymond; Aoki, Masanao - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2008

examining the relationship between output and demand as mediated by changes in unemployment, or Okun's law. We also demonstrate …

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An Incentive Theory of Matching

Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010

This paper examines the labour market matching process by distinguishing its two component stages: the contact stage, in which job searchers make contact with employers and the selection stage, in which they decide whether to match. We construct a theoretical model explaining two-sided selection...

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Monetary Policy and Swedish Unemployment Fluctuations

Alexius, Annika; Holmlund, Bertil - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2007

such as unemployment. Previous studies indicate that monetary policy affects the output gap only at business cycle … frequencies, but the effects on unemployment may well be more persistent in countries with highly regulated labor markets. We … study the Swedish experience of unemployment and monetary policy. Using a structural VAR we find that around 30 percent of …

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Indivisible Labor and Its Supply Elasticity: Do Taxes Explain European Employment?

Ljungqvist, Lars; Sargent, Thomas J. - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2006

role to cross-country differences in social unemployment insurance institutions that Prescott argues can be safely ignored …

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Asymmetric Information and Employment Fluctuations

Bruegemann, Bjoern; Moscarini, Giuseppe - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2006

unemployment and vacancies of the magnitude observed in US data in response to shocks to average labor productivity of plausible … response of unemployment and vacancies to a shock to average labor productivity. In light of these properties, cast in terms of …

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The Italian wage curve reloaded: Does occupation matter?

Gucciardi, Gianluca - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014

wages and the local unemployment rate - within a number of occupations. It exploits the Bank of Italy's Household Survey and …

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Intra-Firm Trade and Employment in US Manufacturing

Blanas, Sotiris - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

This paper studies the impact of trade within US-headquartered multinational companies (MNCs) on labour demand for all employees, as well as, for those of high and low skill in US manufacturing for the period 1995 – 2005. We find strong evidence on the positive and negative effect of...

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