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of different job search methods, conditional unemployment benefits hikes can improve welfare when individuals are risk …
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OECD countries faced largely divergent employment rates during the last decades. But the whole bulk of the cross-national and cross-temporal heterogeneity relies on specific demographic groups: prime-age women and younger and older individuals. This paper argues that family labor supply...
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Most evaluation studies of active labour market policies (ALMP) focus on the microeconometric evaluation approach using individual data. However, as the microeconometric approach usually ignores impacts on the non-participants, it should be seen as a first step to a complete evaluation which has...
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We analyze how wage setting institutions and job-security provisions interact on unemployment. The assumption that … exercises suggest that redundancy transfers and administrative dismissal restrictions have negligeable unemployment effects when … wages are flexible or when the minimum wage is low, but a dramatic positive impact on unemployment when there is a high …
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high severance payments are likely to decrease unemployment but systematically decrease welfare and raise inequality …
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insiders to firing restrictions does not necessarily worsen unemployment. In fact, it may be the willingness of a majority of … unemployment and deteriorates efficiency. Moreover, we argue, that the concentration of firm ownership is likely to influence labor …
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In search of a macroeconomic theory of wage determination, the agnostic reader should be puzzled by the apparent contradiction between two influential theories. On one hand, in the standard search-matching theory with wage bargaining, hiring cost and constant returns of labor, the bargaining...
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In this paper we analyze the relationship between social networks and the job search behavior of unemployed individuals. It is believed that networks convey useful information in the job search process such that individuals with larger networks should experience a higher productivity of informal...
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