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wage affects wages even though, after imposition, the lowest wage in the market exceeds the minimum wage. The model has …
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the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a … justified the relative stability of educational wage premia. Relative wages did not, however, respond to negative net demand …
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relative wage and unemployment differentials for various labour market defining characteristics. A simultaneous increase in the … relative wage and the unemployment likelihood is defined as a relative wage rigidity dynamic for a labour market characteristic …
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We present a theory of involuntary unemployment which explains why the unemployed workers ("outsiders") are unable or … unwilling to find jobs even though they are prepared to work for less than the prevailing wages of incumbent workers ("insiders … wages of the underbidders. The resulting labor turnover costs create economic rent which the insiders tap in wage …
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We study the impact of new technologies (NT) on wages and employment using a unique panel that matches data on …
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determine local wages and unemployment; when mobility between regions is obstructed by rent subsidies and controls, unemployment … regions wages respond predominantly). The hypothesis is tested on United Kingdom regional unemployment data from 1963 to 1979 … and wage differentials arise. Because unemployment benefits set a floor beneath the supply price of labor, as these …
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that reductions in hours will be an efficient policy for reducing unemployment. …
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The paper focuses on labor and product market deregulations, as fundamental elements in the passage from an investment to an innovation-based economy. The approach undertaken is prominently empirical. After a very brief description of the regulatory levels on the two sides of the Atlantic, we...
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The Swedish adult education program known as the Knowledge Lift (1997--2002) was unprecedented in its size and scope, aiming to raise the skill level of large numbers of low-skill workers. This paper evaluates the potential effects of this program on aggregate labour market outcomes. This is...
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The relationship between unemployment and the rate of change of money wages in interwar Britain is re-examined. It is …-term unemployment did not act as a restraint on the growth of money wages. New estimates of the wage equation imply that the NAIRU rose … level of excess demand associated with the measured unemployment rate. In particular, the evidence suggests that long …
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