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This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective … incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that sufficiently low minimum wages may do no harm to employment …
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can choose between employment and overtime (given mandated standard hours). Contrary to this approach, we follow the real … rate regimes obey common employment adjustment thresholds. …
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Whenever unemployment stays high for an extended period, it is common to see analyses, statements, and rebuttals about the extent to which the high unemployment is structural, not cyclical. This essay views the Beveridge Curve pattern of unemployment and vacancy rates and the related matching...
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empirical evidence on the effects of low-wage subsidies is surprisingly scarce. This paper examines the employment effects of a … difference-in-difference-in-differences approach. Our results indicate that the subsidy system had no effects on the employment … rate. However, it appears to have increased the probability of part-time workers obtaining full-time employment. …
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possibilities single countries perceive in pursuing employment policies. In a setting where trade is driven by comparative … advantages, and thus wagecompetitiveness plays an important role for employment, it is shown that there is a tendency that a bias … arises in employmentpolicies. Policies expanding private employment tend to be used too little, while policies harming …
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This paper finds a link between the sharp drop in U.S. manufacturing employment beginning in 2001 and a change in U … declines the most experience more severe employment losses along with larger increases in the value of imports from China and … employment loss, and we show that the U.S. employment trends differ from those in the EU, where there was no change in policy. …
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the unemployment rate and increases the employment rate. From a theoretical point of view, higher progressivity induces a … wage-moderation effect and increases overall employment since employment of low-paid workers is more responsive. We test … average wage, we show that a more progressive taxation reduces the unemployment rate and increases the employment rate. These …
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employment like labour costs and productivity, the skill level of the population, and demography. Considering that ownership may … be endogenous to (shocks in) employment, we use IV estimation methods. Overall, we find evidence in favour of the Oswald … significant fall in the employment rate by about 0.3 percentage points. Our results underscore the importance of including other …
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This paper bolsters Prescott’s (2004) claim that high taxes are responsible for lacklustre labor market performance in continental European countries. We develop a lifecycle model with endogenous skill formation, endogenous labor supply, and endogenous retirement. Labor taxation distorts not...
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We study the impact of graduating in a recession in Flanders (Belgium), i.e. in a rigid labor market. In the presence of a high minimum wage, a typical recession hardly influences the hourly wage of low educated men, but reduces working time and earnings by about 4.5% up to twelve years after...
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