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Reservation wages and the wage flexibility puzzle

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Wages are only mildly cyclical, implying that shocks to labour demand have a larger short-run impact on unemployment …

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Unemployment protection for informal workers in Latin America and the Caribbean

Finkelstein Shapiro, Alan; Sarzosa, Miguel - 2013

-employment to analyze the implications of introducing universal unemployment protection for informal workers through transfers …, which are conditional on participation in training programs. We study how changes in unemployment benefits (UB) for … increasing training UB reduces unprotected unemployment and improves labor market outcomes through higher formal salaried …

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Employment cyclicality by firm size, wage, and productivity in Brazil

Cravo, Túlio; Jacinto, Paulo de Andrade; Schimanski, … - 2018 - Version: August 27th, 2018

firms are more cyclically sensitive to unemployment. Besides, the VAR impulse response analysis suggests that workers move …

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Does green re-industrialization pay off? : impacts on employment, wages and productivity

Frattini, Federico Fabio; Vona, Francesco; Bontadini, … - 2024

What are the consequences of green industrialization on the labour market and industry dynamics? This paper tackles and quantifies this question by employing observable and reliable data on green manufacturing production for an extensive set of EU countries and 4-digit manufacturing industries...

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Citizenship and the economic assimilation of Canadian immigrants

Zanoni López, Wladimir; He, Ailin - 2021

In this paper, we examine whether acquiring citizenship improves the economic assimilation of Canadian migrants. We took advantage of a natural experiment made possible through changes in the Canadian Citizenship Act of 2014, which extended the physical presence requirement for citizenship from...

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How should unemployment insurance vary over the business cycle?

Birinci, Serdar; See, Kurt - 2019

We study optimal unemployment insurance (UI) over the business cycle using a heterogeneous agent job search model with …

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Wages and employment : the role of occupational skills

Girsberger, Esther Mirjam; Koomen, Miriam; Krapf, Matthias - 2018

worker-job complementarity, we estimate how interpersonal, cognitive and manual skills map into job offers, unemployment and …

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Explaining the contractualisation of India's workforce

Kapoor, Radhicka; Krishnapriya, P. P. - 2019

The employment structure of India's organised manufacturing sector has undergone substantial changes over the last decade with a steep rise in the use of contract workers in place of directly hired workers. Much of the existing literature has attributed the widespread use of contract labour to...

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Twenty-five years of income inequality in Britain : the role of wages, household earnings and redistribution

Cribb, Jonathan; Joyce, Robert; Wernham, Thomas - 2022

We study earnings and income inequality in Britain over the 25 years prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. We focus on the middle 90% of the income distribution, within which the gap between top and bottom in 2019-20 was essentially the same as a quarter-century earlier. We show that this apparent...

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