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business cycle theory. The second section deals with imperfect information as an impediment to finding work: search theory …, implicit contract theory, and efficiency wage theory. The third section concerns labour market institutions as sources of …
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Changing social norms, as reflected in the interactions between spouses, are hypothesized to affect the employment rates of married women. A model is built in order to estimate this effect, in which the employment of married men and women is the outcome of an internal household game. The type of...
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Bargaining theory suggests that married women who experience a relative improvement in their labour market position …
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The increase in female employment and participation rates is one of the most dramatic economic changes to have taken place during the last century. However, while the employment rate of married women more than doubled during the last fifty years, that of unmarried women remained almost constant....
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The paper explores the influence of job security provisions on employment and unemployment. We show that this influence depends on the persistence of the macroeconomic fluctuations to which the labour market is exposed, and on employees’ bargaining power in wage negotiations. Specifically,...
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This paper criticizes the Alesina and Ichino (2007) proposal of taxing men more than women. First, the proposal is outright sex discrimination. Second, it cannot be Pareto-improving. Third, its virtues in terms of efficiency are better obtained by gender-neutral voluntary schemes for taxing...
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This paper estimates average and marginal returns to schooling in Indonesia using a non-parametric selection model. Identification of the model is given by exogenous geographic variation in access to upper secondary schools. We find that the return to upper secondary schooling varies widely...
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stagnation and the long deflation are driven by different causes. …
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occurs when unwanted deflation needs to be prevented or combated, but the central bank’s conventional monetary arsenal is …
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After an absence of almost half a century, the spectre of deflation is once again haunting the corridors of central … banks and finance ministries in the industrial world. While preventing or combating deflation poses some unique difficulties … not present in preventing or combating inflation, deflation can be prevented and, if it has taken hold, can be overcome …
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