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. Also the qualitative survey of institutional background of labor market in Poland is conducted. We complement our research … workers (by age and education level attained) to cope with both shocks and constantly undertaken restructuring. We also focus … contribute to this gap. However, we show that low participation of young is mostly connected to lengthening of average education …
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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 defined replacement ratio UI systems are...
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We provide a matching model where identical workers are embedded in ex- ante identical social networks. Job arrival rate is endogeneous and wages are bargained. We study the evolution of networks with time and characterize the equilibrium distribution of unemployment rates across networks. We...
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This paper provides a simple matching model in which unemployed workers and employers in large firms can be matched together through social networks or through more "formal" methods of search. We show that networks do not necessarily add new externalities and that some results previously...
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The cyclical behavior of hours worked, wages, and consumption does not conform with the prediction of the representative agent with standard preferences. The residual in the intra-temporal first-order condition for commodity consumption and leisure is often viewed as a failure of labor-market...
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This work is focused on identifying a circular pull production control system (PPCS) and make emphasis on the presence … physically open but systemic closed system. Previous work has been focused on achieving a balance between system failures and … work in process inventory levels, under a particular risk allowance and a particular environmental scenario. This work …
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We investigate the mapping from individual to aggregate labor supply using a general equilibrium heterogeneous-agent model with an incomplete market. The nature of heterogeneity among workers is calibrated using wage data from the PSID. The gross worker flows between employment and nonemployment...
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, unsocial working hours, health and safety at work, social dialogue. The study combines different methods: statistical and … econometric analysis of recent Labour Force Surveys and enterprise surveys (Earning Structure Survey and Survey of Occupations … workers with short tenure. Presence of a trade union improves workers’ prospect to be paid for eventual overtime work. …
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to education for the poor during the economic crisis. Scholarships were targeted pro-poor and the allocation process … households' investments in education and utilisation of child labour. …
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This paper examines, in the context of future EMU membership of the Central and Eastern European countiries (CEECs), the interaction between fiscal policy and the price level in different exchange rate regimes. The theoretical framework is based on the Fiscal Theory of the Price Level (FTPL)....
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