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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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A striking observation of the U.S. and other labor markets is the weak position of women in terms of job attachment, employment, and earnings relative to men. We develop a model of fertility and labor market decisions to study the impact of fertility on gender differences in labor turnover,...
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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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The Swedish adult education program known as the Knowledge Lift (1997-2002) was unprecedented in its size and scope, aiming to raise the skill level of large numbers of low-skill workers. This paper evaluates the potential effects of this program on aggregate labor market outcomes. This is done...
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Why are financial crises associated with a sustained rise in unemployment? We develop a tractable model with frictions … unemployment. We then explore the micro-level impact by tracking the employment dynamics for firms of different sizes and ages. The …
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inequality and raises unemployment, but expected welfare gains are ensured if workers are risk neutral. And while wage inequality …
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This paper studies the relationship between disembodied technological progress and unemployment in a standard search … that disembodied technological progress increases the rate of unemployment. (Copyright: Elsevier) …
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model in Daveri and Maffezzoli (2000), where unemployment is generated by monopolistic unions, and calibrate it to reproduce …
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's skill level. We establish that, for young workers, unemployment incidence increases with skill in high-firing-tax countries … maintaining unemployment duration and the unemployment rate as decreasing functions of skill in all countries. Because of constant …
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