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equilibrium model of wage dynamics and unemployment. The model is developed under the assumption of worker mobility, so that … Beaudry and DiNardo (1991). We solve for the dynamics of wages and unemployment, and show that real wages do not necessarily … to match actual unemployment and wage series. We also show that equal treatment follows in our model from the assumption …
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downward rigidity, and magnifying the response of unemployment to negative shocks. We also consider layoffs and show that for a …
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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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We present an overview of models of long-term self-enforcing labor contracts in which risk sharing is the dominant motive for contractual solutions. A base model is developed which is sufficiently general to encompass the two-agent problem central to most of the literature, including variable...
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-term unemployment, and that labor market training tends to reduce the same stigma. We show that managers in small organizations have a …
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The paper first discusses the main sources of concern for people in the perspective of professional mobility abroad as they result from the analysis of the Eurobarometer survey, wave 75.1 of 2011. Second, it tests whether portability of social security within Europe is a determinant of intra-EU...
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Within a two-country model with involuntary unemployment, this paper investigates corporate income taxation under … tax policy causes a fiscal externality which goes back to unemployment. This unemployment externality is the lowest when … apportionment improves welfare and reduces unemployment. The welfare increase is the strongest under a pure sales formula. …
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This paper studies a two-region model in which unemployment, education decisions and interregional migration are … endogenous. The poorer region exhibits both lower wages and higher unemployment rates, and migrants to the richer region are … change reduces wages of the unskilled. Both education and migration decisions are distorted by a uniform unemployment …
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the wages for skilled and unskilled workers, leading to involuntary unemployment of unskilled workers in equilibrium … by lower wage differentials as well as higher unemployment. Allowing for endogenous skill formation in both countries …
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In contrast to much recent work regarding the causes of European unemployment, in this paper, we emphasise the … accumulation and unemployment, we argue that what matters for the evolution of employment [and the unemployment rate] is not the …
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