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2007 that include a longitudinal component. It first shows that sustained economic growth will reduce youth unemployment … reduce youth unemployment. Third, the analysis of labor market characteristics reveals that young graduates experience long … unemployment as they cue for high-skill jobs. Moreover, the public sector remains the main provider of employment opportunities for …
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. We use a New Keynesian model with unemployment to predict the effects of different labor market institutions on …This paper analyzes the effects of different labor market institutions on inflation and output volatility. The eurozone … theory. While labor market institutions have a large effect on output volatility, they do not seem to have much of an effect …
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. This model yields a simple relationship between (i) the unemployment rate, (ii) the value of non-market time, and (iii) the … and allow for measurement error. The estimated wage dispersion and mismatch for the US is consistent with an unemployment …
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If individuals reveal their preference as consumers, then they are taken seriously. What happens if individuals, as employees, reveal their preferences in working hours? And what happens if there is a misalignment between actual hours worked and preferred hours, the so-called work hours...
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The paper studies the dynamic change of the migrant labor market in China from 2002 to 2007 using two comparable data sets. Our focus is on the rural-urban migration decision, the wage structure of migrants, the urban labor market segmentation between migrants and urban natives, and the changes...
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Remittances in Moldova reach 36% of GDP, hence they constitute an essential part of the Moldovan economy. The most visible characteristic of remittances is their unequal distribution. The analysis applying the standard Lorenz Curve proves that 75% receiving households gets only 25% of total...
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Many contributions suggest that earnings instability has increased during the 1980s and 1990s. This paper develops and estimates an on-the-job search model of the labor market to study the contribution of wage inequality and job mobility in explaining earnings instability. To study the evolution...
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market institutions – designed for each country specifically. …
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This paper addresses the question of why high unemployment rates tend to persist even after their proximate causes have …
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of unemployment. We further find that allowing for on-the-job search markedly changes the quantitative predictions of the … DMP model regarding the impact of firing costs on unemployment and employment flows: ignoring on-the-job search leads one … to strongly underestimate the negative impact of firing costs on unemployment. …
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