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The Minimum Wage from a Two-Sided Perspective

Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis - CESifo - 2014

This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective … incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that sufficiently low minimum wages may do no harm to employment …

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Effects of Psychiatric Disorders on Labor Market Outcomes: A Latent Variable Approach Using Multiple clinical Indicators

Banerjee, Souvik; Chatterji, Pinka; Lahiri, Kajal - CESifo - 2013

generalized anxiety disorder detract from the employment and labor force participation of males and females; however, we do not … addressing the potential endogeneity of mental illness, we continue to find that mental illness adversely affects employment and … gains in employment for 3.2 million individuals and reduction in workplace cost of absenteeism of $18.9 billion due to …

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Intra-Firm Trade and Employment in US Manufacturing

Blanas, Sotiris - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

on the positive and negative effect of intra-firm exports and imports respectively, on aggregate employment. The former …

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The Minimum Wage from a Two-Sided Perspective

Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014

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The aggregate effects of long run sectoral reallocation

Reicher, Claire - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014

falls in the trend employment-population ratio. The recent shift in the Beveridge Curve during the Great Recession is …

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Friday the 13th: The Empirics of Bad Luck

Fidrmuc, Jan; Tena, J. D. - CESifo - 2014

by behavioral adjustments yet which are of considerable importance to one’s quality of life: employment, earnings and …

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Unemployment in the European Union: A dynamic reappraisal

Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Héctor; Snower, Dennis J. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2003

This paper examines the movements in EU unemployment from two perspectives: (a) the NRU/NAIRU perspective, in which unemployment movements are attributed largely to changes in the long-run equilibrium unemployment rate and (b) the chain-reaction perspective, in which unemployment movements are...

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An Incentive Theory of Matching

Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010

This paper examines the labour market matching process by distinguishing its two component stages: the contact stage, in which job searchers make contact with employers and the selection stage, in which they decide whether to match. We construct a theoretical model explaining two-sided selection...

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Relocation, offshoring and labour market repercussions : the case of the German automobile industry in Central Europe

Nunnenkamp, Peter - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2006

foreign direct investment in Central Europe may have helped the relatively favourable employment and earnings record of the … production. Employment and wages diverged considerably within the German automobile industry. Relative to skilled workers, the …

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Values and labor force participation in the Nordic countries

Hall, Axel; Zoega, Gylfi - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014

The Nordic countries are known for their success in combining an extensive welfare state with high labor force participation. This is explained by the origins of their welfare states that can be traced to a unique set of values and beliefs that emphasize the right of women to participate in the...

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