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We develop an adjustment procedure to construct U.S. monthly time series of involuntary part-time employment stocks and flows from 1976 until today. Armed with these new data, we provide a comprehensive account of the dynamics of involuntary part-time work. Transitions from full-time to...
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of unemployment and wages or wage incomes. Participation rates and migrations are also touched upon. An expectation that … equilibrium values of relative wages and rates of unemployment after a business cycle. …
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This paper challenges the traditional view that unemployment is high because insiders determine the union wage. The … they experience relatively less unemployment. We assume that wages are determined by a monopoly union and further that a … of lower unemployment. …
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We analyse the effects active labour market programmes (ALMPs) have on unemployment in a union wage-setting framework … case where ALMPs increase match efficiency of the marginalized workers, and show that ALMPs may increase unemployment. …
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, sector division, unemployment and welfare. …
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This paper examines the impact on unemployment, unemployment distribution, wages and welfare of Youth Unemployment …
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the impact of YUPs on skill division, unemployment distribution workers and aggregate unemployment. …
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, unemployment and the size of the informal sector are affected by punishment policies, which has been ignored in the previous …
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unemployment. A higher audit rate has an ambiguous impact on unemployment, and may actually increase the size of the underground …
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While examining the macroeconomic effects of government tax and punishment policies, this paper develops a three-sector general equilibrium model featuring matching frictions and worker-firm wage bargaining. Workers are assumed to differ in ability, and the choice of education is determined...
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