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This paper was prepared for the Conference on Measures to Improve Wage Formation in Sweden, hosted by The Commission on … the Strengthening of the Mediation Authority in Sweden; Stockholm 28 September 1998. The background for the conference was … wage formation in Sweden. The paper evaluated the effect of the proposals on wage formation and employment. …
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Why do not people evade more taxes when their gain from evasion is higher than the expected penalties? Why does only a small minority evade when a large majority is willing to? These tax evasion puzzles are explained in a labour market framework where employees may combine reported work in firms...
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This paper lays out a simple open economy macromodel based on the recent literature on imperfect competition and equilibrium unemployment.
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Labour market outcomes of immigrants and natives are affected differently by macroeconomic conditions. In particular, we show that earnings of immigrants in Norway from outside the OECD area are more sensitive to local labour market conditions than are earnings of natives. Failure to account for...
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Using a set of panel data for manufacturing plants we study how payrll taxes and investment subsidies affect wages and demand for labor and capital. We exploit changes in the regional subsidy schemes for labor anf capital in Norway. Our empirical analysis finds that a large part of changes in...
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We construct a model integrating the efficiency wage model of Shapiro-Stiglitz (1984) with the matching-bargaining models of Diamond, Mortensen and Pissarides (DMP). Firms and workers form pairwise matches, workers may shirk on the job, and the wage is set in an asymmetric Nash bargain over the...
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