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Dual Labor Markets, Efficiency Wages, and Search

Albrecht, James W.; Vroman, Susan B. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1990

No abstract.

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010685034

Endogenous Job Destruction and Job Matching in Cities

Zenou, Yves - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008

We propose a spatial search-matching model where both job creation and job destruction are endogenous. Workers are ex ante identical but not ex post since their job can be hit by a technological shock, which decreases their productivity. They reside in a city and commuting to the job center...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005190637

Job Contact Networks and the Ethnic Minorities

Battu, Harminder; Seaman, Paul; Zenou, Yves - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2004

This paper examines the job finding methods of different ethnic groups in the UK. The theoretical framework shows that less assimilated ethnic unemployed workers are more likely to use their friends and family as their main method of search but they have less chance of finding a job using this...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419500

Job Search and Youth Unemployment: Analysis of Swedish Data

Albrecht, James W.; Holmlund, Bertil; Lang, Harald - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1988

No abstract.

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010684443

Search Theory, Downward Money Wage Rigidity and the Micro Foundations of the Phillips Curve

Schager, Nils Henrik - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1988

The present paper has two aims. The first one concerns primarily an issue of method. I set up and analyse an explicitly stochastic model of the optimal behaviour of a firm, which recruits from a search labour market. The second aim of my paper concerns very much an issue of substance in...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010684545

Why is the Swedish Unemployment Rate So Low?

Björklund, Anders - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1989

No abstract.

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818538

Work ‘til You Drop: Short- and Longer-Term Health Effects of Retirement in Europe

Sahlgren, Gabriel H. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012

evidence of the health effects of retirement.In contrast to prior research, we analyze both the impact of being retired and the … effect of spending longer time in retirement. Using spouses’ characteristics as instruments, while taking precautions to … ensure validity, we find a robust, negative impact of being retired and spending longer time in retirement on selfassessed …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818315

Full Employment and the Welfare State.

Lindbeck, A. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1996

What were the asserted complementarities between the welfare state and full-employment policies, and why do these complementarities look less convincing today?

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005486494

The West European Employment Problem.

Lindbeck, A. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1996

How do we explain the poor employment performance in Western Europe since about the-1970s? This question is in fact twofold : What initiated the dramatic rise in employment, and waht mechanisms have made it continue for so long? My attemps to answer these questions from the basis for a...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005486501

Foreign Direct Investment, Capital Formation and Labour Costs: Theory and Evidence for Germany.

Hatzius, J. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1996

This paper shows that the liberalisation of foreign direct investment (FDI) tends to make the effect of labour costs on domestic investment and labour demand more negative.

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005486502