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levels of unemployment. We consider a general equilibrium model where firms in one sector compete à la Cournot and a real … wage rigidity leads to unemployment. If firms consider only partial equilibrium effects when choosing quantities, the …
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such as unemployment. Previous studies indicate that monetary policy affects the output gap only at business cycle … frequencies, but the effects on unemployment may well be more persistent in countries with highly regulated labor markets. We … study the Swedish experience of unemployment and monetary policy. Using a structural VAR we find that around 30 percent of …
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The impacts of introducing work requirements for welfare recipients are studied in an efficiency wage model. If the workfare package is not mandatory, it will reduce employment, profits, and utility levels of employed and unemployed workers. In contrast, mandatory effort requirements will...
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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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how a person’s employment status affects cognitive well-being. Our results show that unemployment has a negative impact on … strengthens the loss in identity utility of men, but weakens that of women. Unemployment of a person’s partner reduces the …
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that unemployment affects life satisfaction and experienced utility differently may be explained by the fact that people do …
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We reassess the “scarring” hypothesis by Clark et al. (2001), which states that unemployment experienced in the past … from past unemployment operates via worsened expectations of becoming unemployed in the future, and that it is future … insecurity that makes people unhappy. Hence, the terminology should be altered by one letter: past unemployment “scars” because …
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The social norm of unemployment suggests that aggregate unemployment reduces the well-being of the employed, but has a … the appropriate distinction may not be between employment and unemployment, but rather between higher and lower levels of … regional unemployment. However, the insecure employed and the poor-prospect unemployed are less negatively, or even positively …
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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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