Showing 1 - 10 of 70
This paper is the first to estimate the effects of minimum wages on the unemployment of refugee immigrants. The … collectively agreed minimum wages raise both the incidence of unemployment and days in unemployment considerably for male refugees …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818451
This study uses data on Swedish multinationals to estimate cross elasticities of labour demand in different locations. With a vertical decomposition of the firm's activities, whether there is substitution or complementarity between employment in different parts of the firm will depend on whether...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005207052
We present a large survey with responses from Swedish firms on their attitudes towards refugees, regarding hiring, job performance, wage setting and discrimination. Generally, firms report positive experiences of having refugees as employees, but we also document a great deal of heterogeneity in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010779452
No abstract.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010684530
explanatory unemployment variable in the Phillips relation is intuitively to be regarded as an indicator of labour scarcity … intermediate step between unemployment and wage inflation. Contributions by Kuh, Solow and Stiglitz in the late sixties follow this …, it is hard to derive the desired result that the wage share increases when unemployment falls. Monopolistic price …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011019057
How are inflation and unemployment related in the long run? Are they negatively correlated, as in the so-called naive … in his Nobel lecture? <p> In this paper inflation is introduced into a general equilibrium search unemployment model. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011019058
Post World War II European welfare states experienced several decades of relatively low unemployment, followed by a … plague of persistently high unemployment since the 1980s. We impute the higher unemployment to welfare states' diminished … search model where workers accumulate skills on the job and lose skills during unemployment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005207056
The analysis provides a new explanation for two widespread problems concerning European unemployment policy: the … disappointingly small effect of many past reform measures on unemployment, and the political difficulties in implementing more … implement broad-based reform strategies. Our analysis suggests that major unemployment policies are characterized by economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419509
The analysis provides a new explanation for two widespread problems concerning European unemployment policy: the … Disappointingly small effect of many past reform measures on unemployment, and the political difficulties in implementing more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005639330
No abstract.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010684398