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The Struggle for Rents in a Schumpterian Economy
de Groot, H.L.F. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1996
consequence of this distortion is the coming about of wait unemployment, i.e., unemployed queuing for high-paid jobs. Employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011092828
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Unemployment and endogenous growth
Schaik, Ton van; de Groot, H.L.F. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1995
among firms affects simultaneously growth and unemployment. On the one hand, an increase of the elasticity of substitution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011092234
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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755135
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The Macroeconomics of the Labor Market: Three Fundamental Views
Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector; Snower, Dennis - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2007
We distinguish and assess three fundamental views of the labor market regarding the movements in unemployment: (i) the … that all the short-run ‡uctuations automatically turn into long-run changes in the unemployment rate. We assert the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755272
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Does the Recent Success of some OECD Countries in Lowering their Unemployment Rates lie in the Clever Design of their Labour Market Reforms?
van Ours, Jan; Belot, M.V.K. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2000
unemployment is affected by different labour market institutions (LMI) such as labour taxes, unemployment benefits, employment …The development of the unemployment rate differs substantially between OECD countries. In recent years some countries … experienced a mild increase, other countries had a stable unemployment rate, while there are also 'successful' countries in which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011091911
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010956138
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009276245
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097460
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The Effect of Shocks to Labour Market Flows on Unemployment and Participation Rates
van Ours, Jan; Dixon, R.; Lim, G.C. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011092281
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The Effect of Low-Wage Subsidies on Skills and Employment
Oskamp, Frank; Snower, Dennis J. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2006
We explore the far-reaching implications of low-wage subsidies on skill formation, aggregate employment and welfare. Low-wage subsidies have three important effects. First, they promote employment of low-skilled workers (who tend to be the ones who earn low wages). Second, by raising the payoff...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005103185