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Is Short-time Work a Good Method to Keep Unemployment Down?

Cahuc, Pierre; Carcillo, Stéphane - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

2008-2009 crisis. This paper discusses the efficiency of this type of policy and investigates its impact on unemployment … unemployment during downturns. All in all, it seems that short-time work programs used in the recent downturn had significant …

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Changes in Unemployment and Wage Inequality: An Alternative Theory and Some Evidence

Acemoglu, Daron - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

This paper offers an alternative theory for the increase in unemployment and wage inequality experienced in the United … change increases skilled wages, reduces unskilled wages and increases the unemployment rate of both skilled and unskilled …

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On the Efficiency of Job Search with Social Networks

Cahuc, Pierre; Fontaine, François - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

of different job search methods, conditional unemployment benefit hikes can improve welfare when individuals are risk …

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The Roots of Low European Employment: Family Culture?

Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

OECD countries faced largely divergent employment rates during the last decades. But the whole bulk of the cross-national and cross-temporal heterogeneity relies on specific demographic groups: prime-age women and younger and older individuals. This paper argues that family labour supply...

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Empirical Labour Search: A Survey

Eckstein, Zvi; den Berg, Gerard J van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

This Paper surveys the existing empirical research that uses search theory to analyse empirically labour supply questions in a structural framework, using data on individual labour market transitions and durations, wages, and individual characteristics. The starting points of the literature are...

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Dynamic Female Labor Supply

Eckstein, Zvi; Lifshitz, Osnat - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

The increase in female employment and participation rates is one of the most dramatic economic changes to have taken place during the last century. However, while the employment rate of married women more than doubled during the last fifty years, that of unmarried women remained almost constant....

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Household Interaction and the Labor Supply of Married Women

Eckstein, Zvi; Lifshitz, Osnat - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Changing social norms, as reflected in the interactions between spouses, are hypothesized to affect the employment rates of married women. A model is built in order to estimate this effect, in which the employment of married men and women is the outcome of an internal household game. The type of...

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Economic Backwardness in Political Perspective

Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James A - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

We construct a simple model where political elites may block technological and institutional development, because of a ‘political replacement effect.’ Innovations often erode elites’ incumbency advantage, increasing the likelihood that they will be replaced. Fearing replacement, political...

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Institutional Causes, Macroeconomic Symptoms: Volatility, Crises and Growth

Acemoglu, Daron; Johnson, Simon; Robinson, James A; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

the answer may be no is that countries pursuing poor macroeconomic policies also have weak ‘institutions’, including … political institutions that do not constrain politicians and political elites, ineffective enforcement of property rights for … more ‘extractive’ institutions from their colonial past were more likely to experience high volatility and economic crises …

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The Rise of Europe: Atlantic Trade, Institutional Change and Economic Growth

Acemoglu, Daron; Johnson, Simon; Robinson, James A - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

enabled these groups to demand, obtain and sustain changes in institutions to protect their property rights. Furthermore, the … existing institutions placed some checks on the monarchy and particularly limited its control of overseas trading activities … the result of capitalist development driven by the interaction of late medieval institutions and the economic …

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