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Fraisse, Henri; Kramarz, Francis; Prost, Corinne - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

About one in four workers challenges her dismissal in front of a labor court in France. Using adata set of individual labor disputes brought to French courts over the years 1996 to 2003,we examine the impact of labor court activity on labor market flows. First, we present asimple theoretical...

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Payroll Taxes, Social Insurance and Business Cycles

Burda, Michael C.; Weder, Mark - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010

unemployment insurance, when thelatter is only imperfectly related to search effort. A balanced social insurance budget … of vacancies andunemployment.... …

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Macroeconomic Volatilities and the Labor Market:First Results from the Euro Experiment

Merkl, Christian; Schmitz, Tom - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010

This paper analyzes the effects of different labor market institutions on inflation and outputvolatility. The eurozone offers an unprecedented experiment for this exercise: since 1999, nonational monetary policies have been implemented that could account for volatilitydifferences across member...

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Do Frictions Matter in the Labor Market?Accessions, Separations and Minimum Wage Effects

Dube, Arindrajit; Lester, T. William; Reich, Michael - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

equilibrium search model using reduced-form minimum wageelasticities identified from border discontinuities and fitted with … those with low tenure. Our estimated parameters ofa search model with wage posting and heterogeneous workers and firms imply …

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The Role of Profit Sharing in a Dual Labour Marketwith Flexible Outsourcing

Koskela, Erkki; König, Jan - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

We analyze the following questions associated with flexible outsourcing under partlyimperfect dual domestic labour markets, where high skilled workers participate in firm’s profitvia profit sharing: How does the implementation of profit sharing influence flexibleoutsourcing? What is the...

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Labour Market Institutions and Unemployment:Does Finance Matter?

Rault, Christophe; Vaubourg, Anne-Gael - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

We explore whether finance influences the impact of labour market institutions onunemployment. Using a data set of 18 OECD countries over 1980-2004, we estimate a panelVectorAutoRegressive model. We check whether causalities from labour market variables tounemployment are affected by financial...

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Product Market Regulation, Firm Size, Unemploymentand Informality in Developing Economies

Charlot, Olivier; Malherbet, Franck; Terra, Cristina - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

This paper studies the impact of product and labor market regulations on informality andunemployment in a general framework where formal and informal firms are subject to thesame externalities, differing only with respect to some parameter values. Both formal andinformal firms have monopoly...

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Efficient Firm Dynamics in a Frictional Labor Market

Kaas, Leo; Kircher, Philipp - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

The introduction of firm size into labor search models raises the question how wages are setwhen average and marginal … posting long- termcontracts. In such a competitive search setting, firms achieve faster growth not only byposting more … vacancies, but also by offering higher lifetime wages that attract more workerswhich allows to fill vacancies with higher …

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Profit Sharing, Wage Formation and FlexibleOutsourcing under Labor Market Imperfection

Koskela, Erkki; König, Jan - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010

We combine profit sharing and outsourcing, if the wage for worker is decided by a labor unionto analyze how does the implementation of profit sharing affect individual effort and thebargained wage and thus outsourcing? We find that profit sharing and the wage level havean individual...

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Impacts of Labor Taxation with Perfectly andImperfectly Competitive Domestic Labor Marketsunder Flexible Outsourcing

Koskela, Erkki - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009

What are the impacts of labor tax reform on wage setting and employment to keep therelative tax burden per low-skilled and high-skilled workers constant in the case ofheterogenous domestic labor markets, i.e. imperfect competition in low-skilled labor andperfect competition in high-skilled labor...

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