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receive higher wages than employed singles. The model is applied to a welfare analysis of alternative unemployment insurance …
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increases job-finding in the private sector by 10 percentage points within one year of unemployment. Six years later, high …
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, that frictions (sand-in-the-wheels) may decrease unemployment and that the equilibrium is determined by two simple …
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Stronger enforcement of discrimination laws can help to reduce disparities in economic outcomes with respect to race …, ethnicity, and gender in the United States. However, the data necessary to detect possible discrimination and to act to counter …
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This paper studies a two-region model in which unemployment, education decisions and interregional migration are … endogenous. The poorer region exhibits both lower wages and higher unemployment rates, and migrants to the richer region are … change reduces wages of the unskilled. Both education and migration decisions are distorted by a uniform unemployment …
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job-to-job mobility, independent of the job-offer distribution and other labor-market parameters. Applying our methodology … transitions or compensating differentials—can reconcile our results with the job-to-job mobility seen in the data. Regardless of …
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, unfair based on an unspecified source, or unfair based on gender discrimination. Unequal pay reduces labor supply of low … results concerning gender discrimination indicate a new reason for the lower labor supply of women, which is a prominent …
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This paper studies the labor market effects of a large employer-borne payroll tax cut for unemployed women, introduced in Italy since 2013. I combine social security data with several empirical approaches, leveraging the time-limited application of the tax scheme and discontinuities in...
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In this paper we review research findings from the 1980s and early 1990s on race and gender pay gaps. In addition. we present some evidence from the Current Population Surveys (1972, 1982 and 1989) regarding the impact of shifts in the industrial composition of employment and in interindustry...
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