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Welfare Benefits of Agglomeration and Worker Heterogeneity

Teulings, Coenraad N.; Ossokina, Ioulia V.; Groot, … - CESifo - 2014

effects on home and job location, on land use, and on agglomeration benefits are hard to pin down. We develop a spatial …

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Biodiversity and Geography

Barbier, Edward B.; Rauscher, Michael - CESifo - 2007

The paper combines an economic-geography model of agglomeration and periphery with a model of species diversity and …

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Integration, Mobility, and Human Capital Formation

Haupt, Alexander; Uebelmesser, Silke - CESifo - 2010

capital externalities, integration and the ensuing agglomeration of skilled labour can cause a decline in human capital and …

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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 …

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The Minimum Wage from a Two-Sided Perspective

Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis - CESifo - 2014

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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Partnership, Gender Roles and the Well-Being Cost of Unemployment

Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie; Weimann, Joachim - CESifo - 2012

We use the differences between life satisfaction and emotional well-being of employed and unemployed persons to analyze how a person’s employment status affects cognitive well-being. Our results show that unemployment has a negative impact on cognitive, but not on affective well-being, which...

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On the Optimal Target Curbside Parking Occupancy Rate

Arnott, Richard J. - CESifo - 2013

For many years, Donald Shoup has been advocating cashing out free and underpriced curbside parking. How should this be implemented in practice, taking into account the stochasticity of curbside parking vacancies? Shoup has proposed setting neighborhood/period of the day-specific meter rates such...

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Flexicurity – Labour Market Performance in Denmark

Andersen, Torben; Svarer, Michael - CESifo - 2007

Unemployment is at a low and stable level in Denmark. This achievement is often attributed to the so-called flexicurity model combining flexible hiring and firing rules for employers with income security for employees. Whatever virtues this model may have, a low and stable unemployment rate is...

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From Excess to Shortage - Recent Developments in the Danish Labour Market

Andersen, Torben - CESifo - 2003

The Danish labour market has undergone a remarkable change during the 1990s with a reduction of the unemployment rate from about 12 per cent in 1993 to less than 6 per cent at the turn of the century. This reflects both a turn in the business cycle but also structural changes related to shifts...

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Imperfect Competition, General Equilibrium and Unemployment

Gersbach, Hans; Schniewind, Achim - CESifo - 1999

We analyze whether different learning abilities of firms with respect to general equilibrium effects lead to different …

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