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Ranking of Job Applicants, On-the-Job Search and Persistent Unemployment.

Eriksson, S.; Gottfries, N. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2000

employment status affects both the level and the persistence of unemployment and numerically that these effects are substantial …

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Unemployment, Labour Market Programmes and Wage Determination: Evidence from the Czech and Slovak Republics.

Huitfeldt, H. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2001

This paper studies effects of unemployment and labour market programmes on real wages in the Czech and Slovak Republics using district paneldata for the period 1992-1998. Clear wage exists in both countries. The estimated unemployment elasticity of pay is, however, higher in the Slovak Republic,...

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Do Benefit Cuts Boost Job Findings? Swedish Evidence from the 1990s.

Carling, K.; Holmlund, B.; Vejsiu, A. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 1999

In June 1995, the Swedish parliament decided to cut the replacement rate in unemployment insurance from 80 percent to 75 percent, a change that took effect on January 1, 1996. This paper examines how this change affected job finding rates among unemployed insured individuals. To identify the...

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Optimal Taxation in Search Equilibrium with Home Production.

Engstrom, P.; Holmlund, B.; Kolm, A.-S. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2001

The paper develops a two-sector general equilibrium search model where "goods" are produced exclusively in the market and "services" are produced both in the market and within the households. We use the model to examine how unemployment and welfare are affected by labor taxes in general and...

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Unemployment and Subsequent Wages: Does Gender Matter?.

Wiklund, F. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 1999

Are there any differences in how men and women fare from unemployment in terms of the wages they receive on a new job? This paper addresses that question using the 1991 wave of the Level of Living Survey. The results suggest that men who experience unemployment will suffer a reduction of...

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Labor Taxation in Search Equilibrium with Home Production.

Holmlund, B. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2000

hold. This paper uses a search equilibrium model with home production to examine the employment and welfare implications of … labor taxes. The employment effect of a rise in a proportional tax is found to be negative for sufficiently low replacement … employment generally falls when proportional labor taxes are raised. Progressive labor taxes increase labor market tightness but …

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