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How to Finance Unemployment Benefits in an Economy with Search Generated Equilibrium Unemployment

Weiss, Pia - EconWPA - 2001

In this paper, the effects of alternatives to finance unemployment benefits on employment and wages are examined in a … model with search generated equilibrium unemployment. It is demonstrated that employment improves if a value--added tax is …

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Trade Liberalization and Compensation

Davidson, Carl; Matusz, Steven - EconWPA - 2005

Liberalization harms some groups while generating aggregate benefits. We consider various labor market policies that might be used to compensate those who lose from freer trade. Our goal is to find the policy that compensates each group of losers at the lowest cost to the economy. We argue that...

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Oil price volatility and the asymmetric response of gasoline prices to oil price increases and decreases

Radchenko, Stanislav - EconWPA - 2004

This paper analyzes the effect of volatility in oil prices on the degree of asymmetry in the response of gasoline prices to oil price increases and decreases. Several time series measures of the asymmetry between the responses of gasoline prices to oil price increases and decreases and several...

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Optimal Unemployment Insurance and Voting

Pollak, Andreas - EconWPA - 2005

The framework of a general equilibrium heterogeneous agent model is used to study the optimal design of an unemployment … insurance (UI) scheme and the voting behaviour on unemployment policy reforms. In a first step, the optimal defined benefit and …

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Geneses of labour market turnover: Job search and entrepreneurial aspirations on-the-job

Hyytinen, Ari; Ilmakunnas, Pekka - EconWPA - 2005

In this paper we study the labour market behavior of employed individuals that have entrepreneurial aspirations in addition to aspirations to switch job. We analyze empirically these two “search processes” side-by-side and report three main findings: First, neither entrepreneurial...

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Job search behavior of unemployed in Russia

Smirnova, Natalia V. - EconWPA - 2004

This paper explores the determinants of job search behavior, search intensity and choices of search methods of the unemployed workers in transitional Russia. We use pooled data from rounds 5-9 of the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) to estimate the effects of socio- economic factors...

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ON-THE-JOB SEARCH, URBAN INFORMAL SECTOR AND THE DEVELOPMENT POLICIES-A GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM ANALYSIS

Bandopadhyay, Titas - EconWPA - 2005

unemployment are also examined here3. The main findings are more efficient on-the-job search from the rural sector raises … equilibrium urban unemployment rate whereas increased job search efficiency from the urban informal sector lowers this rate. Again … urban subsidy policy lowers the equilibrium urban unemployment rate and rural subsidy policy raises this rate. Urban formal …

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Transitions from unemployment in Poland: a multinomial logit analysis

Bukowski, Maciej; Lewandowski, Piotr - EconWPA - 2005

-2004 period. It's main goal is to scrutinize the determinants of outflows from unemployment at the time when the two shocks have … transitions out of unemployment, including personal characteristics and unemployment benefits. Special attention is devoted to the …

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The Effects of the Minimum Wage on Prices in Brazil

Lemos, Sara - EconWPA - 2004

There is very little evidence on the effects of the minimum wage on prices in the international literature and none whatsoever for developing countries. This paper analyzes the effects of the minimum wage on prices using monthly Brazilian household and price data from 1982 to 2000 aggregated at...

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A Menu Of Minimum Wage Variables For Evaluating Wages and Employment Effects: Evidence From Brazil

Lemos, Sara - EconWPA - 2004

The international literature on minimum wage greatly lacks empirical evidence from developing countries. Brazil’s minimum wage policy is a distinctive and central feature of the Brazilian economy. Not only are increases in the minimum wage large and frequent but also the minimum wage has been...

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