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Isolated effects of labor and product market institutions as well as the interaction between both aforementioned … categories on unemployment have been extensively discussed in the empirical literature. However, interaction effects between … individual labor market institutions have been widely neglected, mainly due to the infeasibility to correctly specify the model …
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Isolated effects of labor and product market institutions as well as the interaction between both aforementioned … categories on unemployment have been extensively discussed in the empirical literature. However, interaction effects between … individual labor market institutions have been widely neglected, mainly due to the infeasibility to correctly specify the model …
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This paper studies the role of labor market institutions on unemployment and on the cyclical properties of job flows …. We construct an intertemporal general equilibrium model with search unemployment and endogenous job turnover, and examine … the consequences of introducing an unemployment benefit, a firing cost and a downward wage rigidity. The simulations …
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This paper reviews how income-support systems affect labour force participation in the UK. The UK's approach to social insurance is basic security, with modest, typically flat-rate, benefits; insurance-based benefits are relatively unimportant. Compared with the EU, the UK has high employment...
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estimates a simple model to capture the effects of technology, globalization, institutions and product demand effects on the … attenuate the polarizing impact of routinization and that differences or changes in wage-setting institutions play little role …
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market institutions for worker transitions in order to explain cross-country differences in labour market reactions in a … trade unions experience weaker reactions of the unemployment rate and of worker transitions. …
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The main aim of this paper is to study European regional disparities in unemployment, considering regional productive … latter generally measured in terms of unemployment rates. In a recent paper (Amendola, Caroleo Coppola, 2004) we have … paper we estimate a panel data model where the dependent variable is the regional unemployment rate and the independent …
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Does official aid pave the road for private foreign investment or does it suffocate private initiative by diverting resources towards unproductive activities? In this paper we explore this question using data for a large number of developing and emerging economies. Controlling for countries?...
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