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may have increased unemployment, and shows that this is likely to occur if technological change is associated with an …
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Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment … large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment …
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-specific unemployment rates in 1997. The required nominal wage reductions range from 8.8 to 12.2% and are the higher the lower the employees …
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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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investigate how unemployment is affected by different labour market institutions (LMI) such as labour taxes, unemployment benefits …The development of the unemployment rate differs substantially between OECD countries. In recent years some countries … have experienced a mild increase, other countries have had a stable unemployment rate, while there are also ‘successful …
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Labor and product market regulations affect the unemployment rate of a country without doubt. Econometricians, however … indicators are identified as significant determinants of unemployment. Endogeneity due to reverse causality is also considered by …
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This paper analyzes the role of labor market institutions for youth unemployment, as contrasted to total unemployment …. The empirical results are basically consistent with an insider view of labor market institutions. Labor market … institutions tend to protect (older) employees but might harm (young) entrants. Remarkable is especially the significant and very …
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Until the early decades of the 20th century, women spent more than 60% of their prime-age years either pregnant or nursing. Since then, the introduction of infant formula reduced women's comparative advantage in infant care, by providing an effective breast milk substitute. In addition, improved...
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We present a structural framework for the evaluation of public policies intended to increase job search intensity. Most of the literature defines search intensity as a scalar that influences the arrival rate of job offers; here we treat it as the number of job applications that workers send out....
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using macroeconomic data on employment, unemployment, participation, and (for Canada) migration and real wages. We find that …
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