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unemployment and a positively-sloped Beveridge curve. This paper presents a calibrated model which succeeds at generating … countercyclical unemployment and a negatively-sloped Beveridge curve despite the presence of a participation margin. …
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I examine the dynamic evolutions of unemployment, hours of work and the service share since the war in the United … that the very low unemployment in Europe in the 1960s was due to the high productivity growth associated with technological …
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relative wage of the skilled. Increasing unemployment results only for a restrictive assumption about labor market rigidities. …
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We distinguish and assess three fundamental views of the labor market regarding the movements in unemployment: (i) the … that all the short-run ‡uctuations automatically turn into long-run changes in the unemployment rate. We assert the …
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Skill-biased technical change is identified as the driving force behind the changing skill composition in OECD countries rather than structural change. The finding is partly the result of the sectoral view taken. This paper suggests a different view which uses the production process as a...
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estimates a simple model to capture the effects of technology, globalization, institutions and product demand effects on the … attenuate the polarizing impact of routinization and that differences or changes in wage-setting institutions play little role …
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We explore the far-reaching implications of low-wage subsidies on skill formation, aggregate employment and welfare. Low-wage subsidies have three important effects. First, they promote employment of low-skilled workers (who tend to be the ones who earn low wages). Second, by raising the payoff...
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This paper examines the interactions between employment and training policies. Their effectiveness in stimulating income and employment may be interdependent for various important reasons. For example, the more employment policies stimulate the employment rate, the greater the length of time...
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The construction bust which accompanied the Great Recession, and the accompanying need to shift workers across sectors, have provoked a discussion about mismatch and the Beveridge Curve, alongside a discussion about firm-level dispersion. These discussions echo an ongoing discussion about the...
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renowned Danish miracle by evaluating their unemployment and inequality effects and their complementarities. We develop a … full Danish flexicurity set of policies (low employment protection, high unemployment benefits and workfare). Our results … show that implementing the Danish flexicurity concept in Germany would reduce unemployment and earnings inequality …
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