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What do we Know about the Relationship between Regionalized Aspects of the Unemployment Insurance System and Internal Migration in Canada?
Day, Kathleen M.; Winer, Stanley L. - CESifo - 2011
between internal migration and regional variation in the generosity of Canada’s unemployment insurance system. It has long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009144881
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The Cost of Migrating to a Culturally Different Location
Falck, Oliver; Lameli, Alfred; Ruhose, Jens - CESifo - 2014
Ever since Sjaastad (1962), researchers have struggled to quantify the psychic cost of migration. We monetize psychic cost as the wage premium for moving to a culturally different location. We combine administrative social security panel data with a proxy for cultural difference based on...
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Dialects, Cultural Identity, and Economic Exchange
Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Lameli, Alfred; … - CESifo - 2010
We investigate whether time-persistent cultural borders impede economic exchange across regions of the same country. To measure cultural differences we evaluate, for the first time in economics, linguistic micro-data about phonological and grammatical features of German dialects. These data are...
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Fixed-Term and Permanent Employment Contracts: Theory and Evidence
Cao, Shutao; Shao, Enchuan; Silos, Pedro - CESifo - 2010
This paper constructs a theory of the coexistence of fixed-term and permanent employment contracts in an environment with ex-ante identical workers and employers. Workers under fixed-term contracts can be dismissed at no cost while permanent employees enjoy labor protection. In a labor market...
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Voluntary Public Unemployment Insurance
Parsons, Donald O.; Tranaes, Torben; Lilleør, Helene Bie - CESifo - 2015
public unemployment insurance program requiring a significant premium payment. A safety net program--a less generous, means …
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Why do Europeans Work Less than Americans? Public Consumption and Welfare Benefits as a Cause of the North-Atlantic Divide
Hall, Axel; Zoega, Gylfi - CESifo - 2015
unemployment. Labor market regulations, unemployment benefits, and high levels of public consumption in many European countries …
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Has the EMU Reduced Wage Growth and Unemployment? Testing a Model of Trade Union Behaviour
Mikosch, Heiner; Sturm, Jan-Egbert - CESifo - 2011
(EMU) led to lower wage growth and lower unemployment in participating countries. Following Grüner’s model, monetary … national business cycles which, in turn, leads to higher unemployment risk. In order to counter-balance this effect, trade … unions lower their claims for wage mark-ups resulting in lower wage growth and lower unemployment. This paper uses …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009020101
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Hyperbolic Discounting and Positive Optimal Inflation
Graham, Liam; Snower, Dennis - CESifo - 2011
The Friedman rule states that steady-state welfare is maximized when there is deflation at the real rate of interest. Recent work by Khan et al (2003) uses a richer model but still finds deflation optimal. In an otherwise standard new Keynesian model we show that, if households have hyperbolic...
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Do Government Purchases Affect Unemployment?
Holden, Steinar; Sparrman, Victoria - CESifo - 2011
We investigate empirically the effect of government purchases on unemployment in 20 OECD countries, for the period 1960 …-2007. Compared to earlier studies we use a data set with more variation in unemployment, and which allows for controlling for a host … unemployment; an increase equal to one percent of GDP reduces un-employment by 0.2 percentage point in the same year. The effect is …
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Changing Identity: Retiring from Unemployment
Hetschko, Clemens; Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie - CESifo - 2011
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from 1984-2009, we follow persons from their working life into their retirement years and find that, on average, employed people maintain their life satisfaction upon retirement, while long-term unemployed people report a substantial increase in...
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