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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...
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This paper examines the interactions between employment and training policies. Their effectiveness in stimulating income and employment may be interdependent for various important reasons. For example, the more employment policies stimulate the employment rate, the greater the length of time...
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This paper addresses the question of why prolonged regional unemployment differentials tend to persist even after their … proximate causes have been reversed (e.g., after wages in the high-unemployment regions have fallen relative to those in the low-unemployment …
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underutilization, and unemployment arising from the decline of the tradeable sector. …
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This paper argues that there is a nonzero inflation-unemployment tradeoff in the long-run due to frictional growth, a … unemployment. Hence, we estimate an interactive dynamics model for the US that includes wage-price setting and labour market … equations. We then evaluate the inflation-unemployment tradeoff and assess the impact of productivity, money growth, budget …
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unemployment benefits) in determining firm-provided training. We find that the institutional interactions - specifically, their … striking results, such as: (a) the minimum wage and unemployment benefits generate increasing skills inequality whereas firing … costs generate diminishing skills inequality; (b) unemployment benefits and firing costs are complements in their effects on …
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This paper provides a theoretical and quantitative analysis of various types of wellknown employment subsidies. Two important questions are addressed: (i) How should employment subsidies be targeted? (ii) How large should the subsidies be? We consider measures involving targeting workers with...
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We explore the far-reaching implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by an unemployment … balances in these accounts are available to them during periods of unemployment. The government is able to undertake balanced … model for the high unemployment countries of Europe. Our results suggest that this policy reform would significantly change …
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Using a standard dynamic general equilibrium model, we show that the interaction of staggered nominal contracts with hyperbolic discounting leads to inflation having significant long-run effects on real variables.
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