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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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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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The common view that far-reaching labour market deregulation is the only remedy for high European unemployment is too …
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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 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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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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, when the unemployment rate was much higher, and the inflation rate much lower, than when we conducted the first survey in … severe and prolonged macroeconomic shock affects wage rigidity and unemployment. Our second survey was conducted in 1998 … 1991. We find no evidence that the increase in unemployment has softened the mechanisms generating wage rigidity. On the …
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By international standards, unemployment in Sweden remained remarkably low throughout the 1970s and the 1980s. In the … early 1990s, however, the unemployment rate skyrocketed and hit double-digit levels. Unemployment remained high for several … the rise and fall of unemployment. It is argued that the steep rise in unemployment was mainly the result of a series of …
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, when the unemployment rate was much higher, and the inflation rate much lower, than when we conducted the first survey in … severe and prolonged macroeconomic shock affects wage rigidity and unemployment. Our second survey was conducted in 1998 … 1991. We find no evidence that the increase in unemployment has softened the mechanisms generating wage rigidity. On the …
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