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Dismissal Protection and Worker Flows in Small Establishments

Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan; Bonin, Holger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

Based on a large employer-employee matched data set, the paper investigates the effects of variable enforcement of German dismissal protection legislation on the employment dynamics in small establishments. Specifically, using a difference-in-differences approach, we study the effect of changes...

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Space, Search and Efficiency

Wasmer, Etienne; Zenou, Yves - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

We investigate the role of spatial frictions in search equilibrium unemployment. For that, we develop a model of the … interaction between land and labor markets, and decompose the equilibrium unemployment rate into two parts: a pure non-spatial one …

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Equilibrium Search Unemployment with Explicit Spatial Frictions

Wasmer, Etienne; Zenou, Yves - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

Assuming that job search efficiency decreases with distance to jobs, workers’ location in a city depends on spatial elements such as commuting costs and land prices and on labour elements such as wages and the matching technology. In the absence of moving costs, we show that there exists a...

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Employment Protection and Capital-Labor Ratios

Janiak, Alexandre; Wasmer, Etienne - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

labor market institutions may sometimes favor physical and human capital investments in second-best environments. …

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Labor Market Efficiency, Wages and Employment when Search Frictions Interact with Intrafirm Bargaining

Cahuc, Pierre; Wasmer, Etienne - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

In search of a macroeconomic theory of wage determination, the agnostic reader should be puzzled by the apparent contradiction between two influential theories. On one hand, in the standard search-matching theory with wage bargaining, hiring cost and constant returns of labor, the bargaining...

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Labor Market Flows and Equilibrium Search Unemployment

Garibaldi, Pietro; Wasmer, Etienne - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

This paper explicitly differentiates between unemployment and inactivity, by defining inactivity as a state in which … of large flows between employment, unemployment and inactivity. Secondly, it shows that unemployment and aggregate wages … individuals do not search for jobs when non-employed. Facing changes in the value of inactivity, individuals transit through three …

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