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Buffer funding of unemployment insurance in a dynamic labour union model
Halko, Marja-Liisa - EconWPA - 2004
to the union’s UI fund and by the government’s tax revenue. The main focus of this paper is on the effects of UI buffer … the economy by decreasing employment fluctuations where wages are flexible. If wages are rigid, buffer funding stabilises …
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Why do capital intensive companies pay higher wages?
Virén, Matti - EconWPA - 2005
demand. Thus, the bargaining power of unions is related to the capital-labour ratio. This paper provides some tests for these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125811
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In ow into Unemployment: Employment Spells and Unemployment Insurance
Jurajda, Stepan - EconWPA - 2001
This paper uses U.S. micro level data on employment durations to quantify the effect of potential Unemployment Insurance (UI) entitlement on job separations. Economic theory motivates estimation of a competing risk hazard model for quits and layoffs. The estimation procedure simultaneously...
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NON-NEUTRALITY OF MONETARY POLICY IN POLICY GAMES
Bartolomeo, Giovanni Di; Acocella, Nicola - EconWPA - 2005
trade unions. We use a simple set up in order to clearly expose the basic mechanisms that also work in more complex …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561157
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Non-neutrality of monetary policy in policy games
Acocella, Nicola; Bartolomeo, Giovanni Di - EconWPA - 2002
trade unions. We use a simple set up in order to clearly expose the basic mechanisms that also work in more complex …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561230
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Dispersión y Estabilidad de las Diferencias Salariales interestatales en México, 1984-2000
Cortez, Willy W. - EconWPA - 2005
Economic liberalization has induced a new dynamics on wage setting and employment on Mexican labor market. These changes have been caused by two related events: productive restructuring and increasing labor market flexibility. To the extent that productive restructuring has implied significant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556062
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Optimal Unemployment Insurance with Variable Skill Levels
Pollak, Andreas - EconWPA - 2004
different productivities or skills, are employed by firms offering wages that depend both on the agents’ individual skill level …
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Market Forces and Sex Discrimination
Hellerstein, Judith K.; Neumark, David; Troske, Kenneth R. - EconWPA - 1998
We report new evidence on the existence of sex discrimination in wages and whether competitive market forces act to … sex discrimination in wages in the short run in markets where plants have product market power. We also examine evidence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408292
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Ingresos y Microempresarias en Chile
Huaita, Franklin; VAlenzuela, Patricio - EconWPA - 2005
Utilizando los datos de la encuesta de Caracterización Socioeconómica CASEN 2000, este trabajo evalúa el impacto en la generación de ingresos de una mujer que logra convertirse en microempresaria en Chile, basándose en técnicas paramétricas y no paramétricas. Los resultados son robustos...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408343
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Ingresos y Microempresarias
Huaita, Franklin; VAlenzuela, Patricio - EconWPA - 2005
Utilizando los datos de la encuesta de Caracterización Socioeconómica CASEN 2000, este trabajo evalúa el impacto en la generación de ingresos de una mujer que logra convertirse en microempresaria en Chile, basándose en técnicas paramétricas y no paramétricas. Los resultados son robustos...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408381