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Aggregate Demand, Idle Time, and Unemployment

Michaillat, Pascal; Saez, Emmanuel - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2014

This paper develops a model of unemployment fluctuations. The model keeps the architecture of the Barro and Grossman … flexible to completely rigid. With some price rigidity, aggregate demand influences unemployment through a simple mechanism … thus increases labor demand, which in turn reduces unemployment. We use the comparative-statistics predictions of the model …

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Do more health insurance options lead to higher wages? Evidence from states extending dependent coverage

Dillender, Marcus - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

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Complementarity and Custom in Contract Violation

Earle, John S.; Peter, Klara Sabirianova - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2006

We analyze a model of wage delay in which strategic complementarity arises because each employer's costs of violating its contracts decrease with the arrears in its labor market. The model is estimated on panel data for workers and firms in Russia, facilitating identification through fixed...

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Community Norms and Organizational Practices: The Legitimization of Wage Arrears in Russia, 1992-1999

Earle, John S.; Spicer, Andrew; Sabirianova, Klara Z. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2003

What role do community norms play in the diffusion and persistence of new organizational practices? We explore this question through an examination of the widespread practice of wage arrears, the late and nonpayment of wages, in Russia during the 1990s. Existing research on wage arrears most...

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Temporary Agency Employment as a Way out of Poverty?

Autor, David; Houseman, Susan - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2005

The high incidence of temporary agency employment among participants in government employment programs has catalyzed debate about whether these jobs help the poor transition into stable employment and out of poverty. We provide direct evidence on this question through analysis of a Michigan...

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Power in the Labor Market: Institutionalist Approaches to Labor Problems

Woodbury, Stephen A. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

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The Reallocation of Workers and Jobs in Russian Industry: New Evidence on Measures and Determinants

Earle, John S.; Brown, J. David - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2002

Gross job and worker flows in Russian industry are studied using panel data from a recent survey of 530 firms selected through national probability sampling. The data permit an examination of several important measurement issues-including the timing and definition of employment, the roles of...

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Job Reallocation and Productivity Growth in the Ukrainian Transition

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2004

We analyze the pace and patterns of job reallocation in Ukraine using 1992-2000 panel data on nearly the surviving universe of manufacturing firms inherited from the Soviet Union. Employment growth displays substantial increase in heterogeneity during this transition period, with a corresponding...

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Economic Reforms and Productivity-Enhancing Reallocation in the Post-Soviet Transition

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2004

How do economic reforms affect resource reallocation processes and their contributions to productivity growth? This paper studies the consequences of enterprise privatization and liberalization of product markets, labor markets, and imports in the former Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine....

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Job Reallocation and Productivity Growth Under Alternative Economic Systems and Policies: Evidence from the Soviet Transition

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2002

How do economic policies and institutions affect job reallocation processes and their consequences for productivity growth? This paper studies the extreme case of economic system change and alternative transitional policies in the former Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine. Exploiting annual...

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