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for interpreting trends in wage shares, capital-labor ratios, and aggregate unemployment. …
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This paper presents a simple framework that illustrates the link between skill-based wage differentiation and human capital acquisition given skill-biased technical progress. The analysis points to the economic costs resulting from labor market and income redistribution policies that prevent the...
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There is growing concern in Europe over the impact of globalization on high and evenly shared living standards. These concerns have often surfaced in response to falling labor income shares in aggregate national income data. However, these data may tell little about the underlying distribution...
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The reform of fiscal policies and institutions lies at the heart of structural adjustment in developing countries …
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Prices in Russia have been decontrolled in several steps since early 1991, after decades of near-fixity. Their behavior before and after the January 1992 price liberalization is analyzed here, as are the associated movements of wages and overall consumer incomes and expenditures. The emphasis is...
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France’s economic short-term outlook is positive, and long-term prospects have improved. Fiscal adjustment remains high on the government’s agenda. Tax reforms have improved the economy’s growth potential. Reforms in financial, labor, and product markets are necessary to...
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trap if unemployment lowers household wealth below the cost of skills acquisition. …
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Unemployment has remained high in the Philippines, at almost twice the level of neighboring countries, despite … relatively fast employment growth in the past decade. Employment growth was not sufficient to reduce unemployment because of … unemployment declines were positively correlated with real GDP growth and, to a lesser extent, negatively with the real minimum …
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production decision made by profit-maximizing firms, with insurance provisions and labor market institutions affecting the costs …
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This paper develops a general equilibrium model with unemployment and noncooperative wage determination to analyze the … and unemployment but increases vacancies. Additionally, the model explains the average level of unemployment insurance …
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