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This paper incorporates training in the design of unemployment policies. Human capital falls upon displacement and … continuously depreciates during unemployment. While training counters the decrease in human capital, it also affects the … with varying intensity during the unemployment spell can be enforced by the social planner. The analysis provides three …
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reduction in fertility is not due to the income loss generated by unemployment but arises because displaced workers undergo a …
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longer hours. By contrast, a higher probability of losing jobs, a longer duration of unemployment, and in general a less …
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Differences in regional unemployment in post-communist economies are large and persistent. We show that inherited … variation in human-capital endowment across the regions of four such economies explains the bulk of regional unemployment … pattern, which helps explain the lack of convergence in regional unemployment rates, is consistent with the presence of …
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equilibrium, thereby generating unemployment in the ‘East’. This slows the migration of human capital towards the East, but …
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to do in terms of real convergence. Finally, the correlations of industrial production and unemployment cycles in the …
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Economic and monetary reunification in Germany has proved to be more expensive than previously thought - and not just for the Germans. If a `Mezzogiorno' problem of continuing fiscal transfers to the East and possible migration flows westwards are to be avoided, there must be convergence in...
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The economic slowdown in the 70s in Latin America and Japan in the late 90s, generated a growing skepticism about the role of industrial policy in the process of economic development. Yet, new considerations have emerged over the recent period, which invite us to revisit the issue. This paper...
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Our concern is about a firm-specific industrial policy. When R&D subsidies or taxes are differentiated among firms, the question arises which firms in an industry should receive such support. We analyse a situation where firms differ in their R&D technologies in two distinct ways: they differ...
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The purpose of this paper is to try to shed some new light on the current industrial policy crisis. This paper proposes that the industrial policy debate is shaped by knowledge about the functioning of the underlying industrial structure, which in turn is the Gegenstand of scholars in the field...
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