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Worker absenteeism in search equilibrium
Engström, Per; Holmlund, Bertil - 2005
The paper presents a tractable general equilibrium model of search unemployment that incorporates absence from work as …
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Unemployment and endogenous reallocation over the business cycle
Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos; Visschers, Ludo - 2013
We build an analytically and computationally tractable stochastic equilibrium model of unemployment in heterogeneous … countercyclical unemployment, and is simultaneously consistent with procyclical reallocation, countercyclical separations and a … negatively-sloped Beveridge curve. Moreover, the model exhibits unemployment duration dependence, which (when calibrated to long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291522
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Early retirement : free choice or forced decision
Dorn, David; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - 2005
Early retirement is usually explained as a supply-side phenomenon. However, early retirement can also be a demand-side phenomenon arising from a firm's profit maximization behavior. This paper analyzes voluntary and involuntary early retirement based on international microdata covering 19...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261333
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A model of income insurance and social norms
Lindbeck, Assar; Persson, Mats - 2006
A large literature on ex ante moral hazard in income insurance emphasizes that the individual can affect the probability of an income loss by choice of lifestyle and hence, the degree of risk-taking. The much smaller literature on moral hazard ex post mainly analyzes how a ?moral hazard...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261422
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Why go to France or Germany, if you could as well go to the UK or the US?: selective features of immigration to four major OECD countries
Geis, Wido; Uebelmesser, Silke; Werding, Martin - 2008
Building on a new data set which is combined from national micro-data bases, we highlight differences in the structure of migrants to four countries, viz. France, Germany, the UK and the US, which receive a substantial share of all immigrants to the OECD world. Looking at immigrants by source...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264459
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How do migrants choose their destination country?: an analysis of institutional determinants
Geis, Wido; Uebelmesser, Silke; Werding, Martin - 2008
institutional determinants, especially labor-market institutions, on migrants' choices. Based on a large data set constructed from … immigrant networks and negative effects of unemployment rates. In addition, we find that employment protection, union coverage … and unemployment benefits have positive effects on migration. Also good education and health systems tend to attract …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264522
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Female labor supply and parental leave benefits: the causal effect of paying higher transfers for a shorter period of time
Bergemann, Annette; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2009
We study the labor supply effects of a change in child-subsidy policy designed to both increase fertility and shorten birth-related employment interruptions. The reform yields most of the intended effects.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264582
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The rise in female employment and the role of tax incentives : an empirical analysis of the Swedish individual tax reform of 1971
Selin, Håkan - 2009
Sweden reached the 2007 OECD average level of female labor force participation already in 1974. Before, but not after, 1971 the average tax rate facing the housewife was a function of the income of her husband. By exploiting a rich register based data source I utilize the exogenous variation...
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Beyond the classroom: Using title IX to measure the return to high school sports
Stevenson, Betsey - 2010
Between 1972 and 1978 U.S. high schools rapidly increased their female athletic participation rates - to approximately the same level as their male athletic participation rates - in order to comply with Title IX, a policy change that provides a unique quasi-experiment in female athletic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266109
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A continuous theory of income insurance
Lindbeck, Assar; Persson, Mats - 2010
In this paper we treat an individual's health as a continuous variable, in contrast to the traditional literature on income insurance, where it is regularly treated as a binary variable. This is not a minor technical matter; in fact, a continuous treatment of an individual's health sheds new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270506