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The Added Worker Effect and Intrahousehold Aspects of Unemployment

Serneels, Pieter - EconWPA - 2004

The added worker effect states that unemployment of a household member leads to an increase in labour supply of another … have more entitlements, waiting in unemployment for a good job is not one of them. We carry out two separate analyses to … no added worker effect. This suggests that households have other ways to cope with unemployment and is consistent with …

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Wage Rigidity in a Competitive Incomplete Contract Market

Fehr, Ernst; Falk, Armin - EconWPA - 2003

Do employers and workers underbid prevailing wages if there is unemployment? Do employers take advantage of workers …

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Fair pay and a Wagebill Argument for Wage Rigidity and Excessive Employment Variability

Thomas, Jonathan P. - EconWPA - 2001

, with the result that too few hires are made in bad states of the world. Unemployment is involuntary. In an extension to the …

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Fair pay and a Wagebill Argument for Wage Rigidity and Excessive Employment Variability

Thomas, Jonathan P. - EconWPA - 2000

, with the result that too few hires are made in bad states of the world. Unemployment is involuntary. In an extension to the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556751

Dismissals and Match-Specific Rents

Black, Dan A.; Loewenstein, Mark A. - EconWPA - 1996

Labor contracts that result in dismissals are quite common in the real world. The question that arises is why employers do not just offer reduced wages instead of asking workers with low realized productivity to leave. This paper argues that such behavior can be explained by workers'...

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Is Variation in Hours of Work Driven by Supply or Demand? Evidence from Finnish Manufacturing Industries

Böckerman, Petri; Jäntti, Markus - EconWPA - 2005

This paper uses panel data from 1989 to 1995 on blue-collar workers in Finnish manufacturing industries and their establishments to assess the extent to which hours of work are affected by individual or establishment characteristics - observed as well as unobserved. We argue that recent research...

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Joint Labour Supply of Married Couples: Efficiency and Distribution Effects of Tax and Labour Market Reforms

Aaberge, Rolf; Colombino, Ugo; Strøm, Steinar; Wennemo, Tom - EconWPA - 2005

The paper presents a model of household labour supply that allows for simultaneous decisions of household members, complex and non-convex choice sets induced by tax and benefit rules, and quantity constraints on hours choice. The model is estimated using the 1993 Bank of Italy’s Survey of...

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Looking for the Workforce: the Elderly, Discouraged Workers, Minorities, and Students in the Baltic Labour Markets

Hazans, Mihails - EconWPA - 2005

supply in the Baltic countries respond to changes in minimum wages, unemployment benefits and retirement regulation? Do the … for increasing participation in each of the countries. Recent rates of transition from unemployment to employment and to …

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Economic Implications of an Ageing Australia

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2005

The commissioned study into the ageing of Australia’s population was released April 2005. The Commission found that one quarter of Australians will be aged 65 years or more by 2044-45, roughly double the present proportion. This gives rise to significant policy challenges. The Commission...

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Designing Optimal Taxes With a Microeconometric Model of Household Labour Supply

Aaberge, Rolf; Colombino, Ugo - EconWPA - 2005

This paper is concerned with the empirical analyses of optimal taxation, adopting Equality of Outcome (EO) as well as Equality of Opportunity (EOp) as evaluation criteria. The EOp- and EO-criteria provide alternative methods for summarizing the efficiency-equality trade-off in the distribution...

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