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Some Evidence on the Importance of Sticky Wages
Barattieri, Alessandro; Basu, Susanto; Gottschalk, Peter - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
peak at 12 months. 5) The probability of a wage change is positively correlated with the unemployment rate and with the … consumer price inflation rate. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008627125
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Evaluating the Economic Significance of Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity
Elsby, Michael W. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
results suggest that DNWR may not provide a strong argument against the targeting of low inflation rates, as practiced by many …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005714106
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Minimally Altruistic Wages and Unemployment in a Matching Model
Rotemberg, Julio - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
This paper presents a model in which firms recruit both unemployed and employed workers by posting vacancies. Firms act monopsonistically and set wages to retain their existing workers as well as to attract new ones. The model differs from Burdett and Mortensen (1998) in that its assumptions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005777587
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Evaluating Labor Market Reforms: A General Equilibrium Approach
Alonso-Borrego, César; Fernandez-Villaverde, Jesus; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
Job security provisions are commonly invoked to explain the high and persistent European unemployment rates. This … both its unemployment and its share of fixed-term employment are the highest. We find that fixed-term contracts increase … unemployment, reduce output, and raise productivity. The welfare effects are ambiguous. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005575239
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L’Emploi, le Chômage et les Conditions d’Activité en République Démocratique du Congo : Principaux résultats de la phase 1 de l’Enquête 1-2-3 2004-2005
Makabu Ma Nkenda, Thimotée; Mba, Martin; Torelli, Constance - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2007
characteristics of employment and unemployment in the country. This study, which presents the principal results of the survey, helps …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011074347
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Le marché du travail en République Démocratique du Congo en 2012 : Principaux résultats de la Phase 1 de l’Enquête 1-2-3
Kankwanda, Grégoire; Makabu Ma Nkenda, Timothée; … - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2014
detailed picture of the main characteristics of employment and unemployment in the country. This study, which presents the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011193766
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The Determinants of Retirement: the crucial impact of the last occupation.
El Mekkaoui de Freitas, Najat; Duc, Cindy - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2011
Understanding the changes that occur in employment patterns as people grow older and the paths they take from employment to retirement may help to apprehend the factors that encourage or discourage employment retention. The aims of this paper are to analyse the process leading up to retirement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010706474
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The Labor Market Impacts of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Oil Drilling Moratorium
Aldy, Joseph E. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
In 2010, the Gulf Coast experienced the largest oil spill, the greatest mobilization of spill response resources, and the first Gulf-wide deepwater drilling moratorium in U.S. history. Taking advantage of the unexpected nature of the spill and drilling moratorium, I estimate the net effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951158
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International Rent Sharing in Multinational Firms
Budd, John; Konings, Josef; Slaughter, Matthew J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2002
We use a unique firm-level panel data set of multinational parents and their foreign affiliates to analyze whether profits are shared across borders within multinational firms. Using both fixed-effects and generalized method-of-moments estimators, affiliate wage levels are estimated to respond...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248930
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Product Quality and Worker Quality
Abowd, John M.; Kramarz, Francis; Moreau, Antoine - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1995
We study the relation between product quality and worker quality using an economic model that, under certain conditions, provides a direct link between product price, product quality and work force quality. Our measures of product quality are the evolution in the detailed product price relative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005084858