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Comparative Advantage and Skill-specific Unemployment

Larch, Mario; Lechthaler, Wolfgang - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009

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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Unemployment in an Interdependent World

Felbermayr, Gabriel; Larch, Mario; Lechthaler, Wolfgang - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009

We introduce search and matching unemployment into a model of trade with differentiated goods and heterogeneous firms …

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The Economics of Co-ethnic Employment; Incentives, Welfare Effects and Policy Options

Butter, Frank A.G. den; Masurel, Enno; Mosch, Robert - Tinbergen Institute - 2004

and norms, and less unemployment and social security problems for society. In the long run, co-ethnic employment might …

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Strikes in France and the Netherlands; A Comparison of Labour Market Institutions

Butter, Frank A.G. den; Koppes, Silvie Y. - Tinbergen Institute - 2003

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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A Cointegration Model for Search Equilibrium Wage Formation

Broersma, L.; Butter, Frank A.G. den; Kock, Udo - Tinbergen Institute - 2003

flows on wage formation as alternative to the traditional specification of wage equations where unemployment represents the …

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Minimum Wages and Firm Training

Lechthaler, Wolfgang; Snower, Dennis J. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2006

The paper analyzes the influence of minimum wages on firms’ incentive to train their employees. We show that this influence rests on two countervailing effects: minimum wages (i) augment wage compression and thereby raise firms’ incentives to train and (ii) reduce the profitability of...

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Firm Training and Wage Rigidity

Lechthaler, Wolfgang - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2008

Although wage rigidity is among the most prominent subjects in modern economics, its effects on wage compression and firm training have thus far not been considered. This paper is trying to bridge this gap by using a simple two period model which can still by analyzed analytically. I am able to...

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