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We introduce unemployment and endogenous selection of workers into different skill-classes in a trade model with two … sectors and heterogeneous firms. This allows us to study the distributional consequences and the skill-specific unemployment … real wages and unemployment levels in the unskilled labor intensive sector. However, the inequality of workers between …
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We introduce search and matching unemployment into a model of trade with differentiated goods and heterogeneous firms …
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and norms, and less unemployment and social security problems for society. In the long run, co-ethnic employment might …
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Strikes as a consequence of labour conflicts occur about 28 times as much in France as in the Netherlands. This paper examines the institutional differences underlying these differences in strike activity. Our empirical analysis shows that strike activity is high in France if workers were...
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flows on wage formation as alternative to the traditional specification of wage equations where unemployment represents the …
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immigration on unemployment. The transitory restrictions for worker migration after the EU enlargements of 2004 and 2007 exemplify … alongside trade on unemployment taking into account the substitutability of worker and goods flows. We use data from 24 OECD … persistence of unemployment. We find a significant negative effect of immigration on unemployment on average. …
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