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Labor Market Dynamics under Long Term Wage Contracting
Rudanko, Leena - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2006
in unemployment and vacancies but also wages, is the drop in consumption for the unemployed. In addition, explaining the …
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Trade and Unions: Can Exporters Benefit from Collective Bargaining?
Capuano, Stella; Hauptmann, Andreas; Schmerer, Jans-Jörg - CESifo - 2014
Unions are often stigmatized as being a source of inefficiency due to higher collective bargaining outcomes. This is in stark contrast with the descriptive evidence presented in this paper. Larger firms choose to export and are also more likely to adopt collective bargaining. We rationalize...
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"The effects of inflation in a search model of labor"
Samaniego, Roberto; Peterson, Brian - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005069369
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Nominal Wage Contracts and the Persistent Effects of Monetary Policy.
Gottfries, N.; Westermak, A. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 1995
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The Minimum Wage from a Two-Sided Perspective
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis - CESifo - 2014
This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective, in which firms’ job offer and workers’ job acceptance decisions are disentangled. Minimum wages reduce job offer incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show...
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On the Benefits from Rigid Labour Markets: Norms, Market Failures, and Social Insurance.
Agell, J. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 1998
The common view that far-reaching labour market deregulation is the only remedy for high European unemployment is too …
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Unemployment, Growth and Speed of Transition in China
Fidrmuc, Jan; Huang, Shuo - CESifo - 2013
We investigate the relationship between unemployment and growth in China. We find considerable differences in the … find a hump-shaped relationship between unemployment and our proxy for the speed of reform. The current unemployment in …
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Unemployment and Endogenous Reallocation over the Business Cycle
Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos; Visschers, Ludo - CESifo - 2013
unemployment and its underlying duration distribution. We develop an analytically and computationally tractable stochastic … equilibrium model with heterogenous labor markets. In this model three different types of unemployment arise: search, rest and … reallocation unemployment. We document new evidence on unemployed workers’ gross occupational mobility and use it to calibrate the …
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The Determinants of Hiring in Local Labor Markets: The Role of Demand and Supply Factors
Eriksson, Stefan; Stadin, Karolina - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2011
This paper studies the determinants of hiring. We use the search-matching model with imperfect competition in the product market from Carlsson, Eriksson and Gottfries (2011) to derive an equation for total hiring in a local labor market, and estimate it on Swedish panel data. When product...
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Vacancy Matching and Labor Market Conditions
Stadin, Karolina - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2012
unemployment has a weak positive effect on the probability of filling a vacancy, while the number of vacancies in the local labor …
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