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-person families receive higher wages than employed singles. The model is applied to a welfare analysis of alternative unemployment …
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receive higher wages than employed singles. The model is applied to a welfare analysis of alternative unemployment insurance …
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This paper investigates the age-dependency of participation and unemployment by integrating job search with … that the age pattern of search unemployment does not match observed unemployment and we propose a new concept of 'voluntary …' unemployment that agrees well with observations. …
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A vast literature has investigated how unemployment insurance (UI) affects labor supply. However, the distorting effect … deterministic relationship between previous earnings and unemployment benefits. The ran domized assignment of benefits created by … the kink allows me to identify how UI affect the use of private wealth to finance consumption during unemployment spells …
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A vast literature has investigated how unemployment insurance (UI) affects labor supply. However, the distorting effect … deterministic relationship between previous earnings and unemployment benefits. The randomized assignment of benefits created by the … kink allows me to identify how UI affect the use of private wealth to finance consumption during unemployment spells. Using …
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that a decrease of say unemployment probability or an increase in unemployment insurance (UI) generosity affects saving not …
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-linear income taxation in the presence of quasi-linear preferences in leisure by allowing for involuntary unemployment, job search …
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This paper stresses the importance of a specification of the matching function in which the measure of job matches corresponds to the measure of job searchers. In many empirical studies on the matching function this requirement has not been fulfilled because it is difficult to find information...
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Relative to the United States, most European countries have high rates of unemployment and low levels of productivity … between unemployment and growth. The steady state relative productivity level and the corresponding rates of unemployment … country raises the worldwide rate of unemployment, whereas downsizing of firms in the follower country enlarges the …
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The system of active labor market policies (ALMP) in the Slovak Republic consists to a large extent of the creation of socially purposeful and publicly useful jobs and of retraining of unemployed workers. So far, the effects of these types of active labor market policies have hardly been...
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