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We develop a general equilibrium analysis of the impact of active labour market policy on unemployment, wages and the … employed have little exposure to unemployment and if the demand for unskilled labour is inelastic, there may be political … support for policies which actually raise the equilibrium level of total unemployment. …
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multiple equilibria as a result of the fact that the reservation wage of the unemployed and the lowest production technology in …
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the recession and peaked at more than 1.5 million. Without the extensive use of short-time work, unemployment would have …
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separate analyses for the USA, the UK, Germany and the Netherlands. We quantify the monopsony power due to search frictions and … we examine the policy effects of the minimum wage, unemployment benefits and search frictions. …
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We study the determination of Irish inflation between 1926 and 2012. The difference between unemployment and the NAIRU …
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We argue that firms’ balance sheets were instrumental in the propagation of shocks during the Great Recession. Using establishment-level data, we show that firms that tightened their debt capacity in the run-up (“high-leverage firms”) exhibit a significantly larger decline in employment in...
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Germany experienced an even deeper fall in GDP in the Great Recession than the United States, with little employment loss. Employers’ reticence to hire in the preceding expansion, associated in part with a lack of confidence it would last, contributed to an employment shortfall equivalent to...
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the indirect wage effect resulting from lower unemployment risks and shorter spells in unemployment associated with higher … accounting for the effects of unemployment on individual wages using EU-SILC data. Across countries we find a high variation of … the effect of education on unemployment duration. Overall, the returns to education are estimated to be the highest in the …
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This paper develops a theory characterizing the effects of fiscal policy on unemployment over the business cycle. The … theory is based on a model of equilibrium unemployment in which jobs are rationed in recessions. Fiscal policy in the form of … government spending on public-sector jobs reduces unemployment, especially during recessions: the fiscal multiplier …
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and the unemployment rate in U.S. data since 1929. Second, it compares a new model of the economy developed in recent …
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