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density function with higher density and thereby generate large, asymmetric job-finding rate and unemployment reactions. Our …
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The group of contributors in this book come from academia and international organizations in Europe and the USA. They focus on trade unions, which affect real-wage flexibility and the provision of training to workers. They also concentrate on employment protection legislation, which discourages...
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This book examines innovative theoretical perspectives and novel labour market policy responses to Europe's changing work demands, employment careers and life courses. It presents creative ideas and recommendations for flexicurity policies at various levels and in different social and economic...
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, results in welfare losses for at least a segment of the population, after a capital tax cut and a concurrent labour tax …
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Economic and policy implications of population aging / Robert Clark, Andrew Mason, Naohiro Ogawa -- Population aging …, David Canning, Michael Moore, Younghwan Song -- Modeling the effects of population aging on consumption in the presence of … -- Population aging and health care spending in Japan : public- and private-sector responses / Naohiro Ogawa, Andrew Mason, Maliki …
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Evaluation of climate policies and other issues requires a variable population setting where population is endogenously … conditions and principles used to evaluate variable population criteria. In particular, it avoids the repugnant conclusion even …
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We assess the concentration and duration of zero tax liabilities and of transfer receipts, using data for households with ten to forty years of observations from the Panel Survey of Income Dynamics. We find that neither is strongly concentrated. Nearly 68% owe no federal tax in at least one...
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population, and incentives for investment in human capital combine to predict the decline of the West. In particular, indigenous … redistribution, do not compete with immigrants in the labor market, and do not compete with immigrants for publicly financed income … transfers. For the economy at large, high-fertility unskilled immigrants and a low-fertility indigenous population result in …
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We investigate the relationship between unemployment and growth in China. We find considerable differences in the … find a hump-shaped relationship between unemployment and our proxy for the speed of reform. The current unemployment in …
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downward rigidity, and magnifying the response of unemployment to negative shocks. We also consider layoffs and show that for a … range of shocks labor hoarding occurs while wages are cut. We argue these features are consistent with recent evidence …
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