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receive higher wages than employed singles. The model is applied to a welfare analysis of alternative unemployment insurance …
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-person families receive higher wages than employed singles. The model is applied to a welfare analysis of alternative unemployment …
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Applicants for any given job are more or less suited to fill it, and the firm will select the best among them. Increasing the wage offer attracts more applicants and makes it possible to raise the hiring standard and improve the productivity of the staff. Wages that optimize on the trade-off...
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This paper investigates the age-dependency of participation and unemployment by integrating job search with … that the age pattern of search unemployment does not match observed unemployment and we propose a new concept of 'voluntary …' unemployment that agrees well with observations. …
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increases in youth unemployment and youth participation in active labor market programs. The impact on unemployment rates by age … and education has been roughly proportional, however. The evolution of employment and unemployment does not offer much … ground for the popular hypothesis that the recent rise in unemployment is driven by large and pervasive shifts in the demand …
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previous jobs, and thus much more than they get in unemployment benefits. However, our results also show that some groups, such … demands may contribute to high unemployment. …
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Are there any differences in how men and women fare from unemployment in terms of the wages they receive on a new job … experience unemployment will suffer a reduction of subsequent wages while no such effect could be found for women. These findings … unemployment duration was rather short, which may have prevented general capital from depreciating. However, the presence of large …
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wages and the local unemployment rate - within a number of occupations. It exploits the Bank of Italy's Household Survey and …
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unemployment, household care and disability to employment. Then we decompose the differences in expected duration between the …
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This paper investigates the role of skill depreciation in the relationship between work interruptions and subsequent wages. Using a unique longitudinal dataset, the Swedish part of the International Adult Literacy Survey, we are able to analyze changes in literacy skills for individuals as a...
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