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Regional Equilibrium Unemployment Theory at the Age of the Internet
Lutgen, Vanessa; Linden, Bruno Van der - CESifo - 2015
This paper studies equilibrium unemployment in a two-region economy with matching frictions, where workers and jobs are …. Search-matching externalities are amplified by the latter possibility and by the fact that some workers can simultaneously … receive a job offer from each region. The rest of the framework builds upon Moretti (2011). Increasing the matching …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011272629
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Wages, Rents, Unemployment, and the Quality of Life
Wrede, Matthias - CESifo - 2012
Combining a spatial equilibrium model with a matching unemployment model, this paper analyzes the regional quality of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010546957
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Tax Effects, Search Unemployment, and the Choice of Educational Type
Alstadsæter, Annette; Kolm, Ann-Sofie; Larsen, Birthe - CESifo - 2005
This paper examines the effect of taxes on the individuals’ choices of educational direction, and thus on the economy’s skill composition. A proportional labour income tax induces too many workers with high innate ability to choose an educational type with high consumption value and low...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005766172
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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 nature of this relationship across Chinese regions. We argue that this may reflect the different progress in transition across regions, in line with the Aghion-Blanchard model of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877790
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The Effect of Shocks to Labour Market Flows on Unemployment and Participation Rates
Dixon, Robert; Lim, Guay C.; Ours, Jan C. van - CESifo - 2014
This paper presents an analysis of labour market dynamics, in particular of flows in the labour market and how they interact and affect the evolution of unemployment rates and participation rates, the two main indicators of labour market performance. Our analysis has two special features. First,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877810
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Unemployment and Endogenous Reallocation over the Business Cycle
Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos; Visschers, Ludo - CESifo - 2013
This paper studies unemployed workers’ decisions to change occupations, and their impact on fluctuations in aggregate unemployment and its underlying duration distribution. We develop an analytically and computationally tractable stochastic equilibrium model with heterogenous labor markets. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877858
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How to Stimulate Single Mothers on Welfare to Find a Job; Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Knoef, Marike; Ours, Jan C. van - CESifo - 2014
We present the results from a natural experiment in which single mothers on welfare were stimulated to find a job. Two policy instruments were introduced: an earnings disregard and job creation. The experiment was performed at the level of municipalities in The Netherlands, a country with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877926
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Immigration, Search, and Redistribution: A Quantitative Assessment of Native Welfare
Battisti, Michele; Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Peri, Giovanni; … - CESifo - 2014
We study the effects of immigration on native welfare in a general equilibrium model featuring two skill types, search frictions, wage bargaining, and a redistributive welfare state. Our quantitative analysis suggests that, in all 20 countries studied, immigration attenuates the effects of...
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Employment Protection and the Market for Innovations
Bastgen, Andreas; Holzner, Christian - CESifo - 2015
in order to restore their productivity. To do so we develop an equilibrium matching model with an imperfect labor and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011210787
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Does Culture Affect Unemployment? Evidence from the Röstigraben
Brügger, Beatrix; Lalive, Rafael; Zweimüller, Josef - CESifo - 2009
This paper studies the role of culture in shaping unemployment outcomes. The empirical analysis is based on local comparisons across a language barrier in Switzerland. This Röstigraben separates cultural groups, but neither labor markets nor political jurisdictions. Local contrasts across the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005013065