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employment turnover and high insurance can co-exist with an American-type steady-state with low unemployment, high employment …
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This Paper presents a tractable dynamic general equilibrium model that can explain cross-country empirical regularities in geographical mobility, unemployment and labour market institutions. Rational agents vote over unemployment insurance (UI), taking the dynamic distortionary effects of...
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, when regulations were introduced after a period of rising wage inequality, and coincided with rapidly declining fertility …
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The British Industrial Revolution triggered a reversal in the social order whereby the landed elite was replaced by industrial capitalists rising from the middle classes as the economically dominant group. Many observers have linked this transformation to the contrast in values between a...
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reduces profits and and output. Employment effects are sensitive to the representation of preferences. In our benchmark, small … reductions in working time, starting from the laissez-faire equilibrium solution, always increase employment, while larger … reductions reduce employment. However, the employment gains from reducing working time are relatively small …
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We study the evolution of sectoral employment and labour cost in 11 European countries over the last two decades. Our … countries and industries in employment growth, whereas country-specific effects are more important in the analysis of labour … employment. We pay special attention to Spain, a country that has experienced a high persistent unemployment rate, and show that …
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