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We document substantial cross-sectional heterogeneity of German establishments’ real wage cyclicality over the business … wages. We estimate a negative connection between establishments’ wage cyclicality and their employment cyclicality, thereby …
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We estimate Okun's law, the negative relationship between output and the unemployment rate, at the sector level for the US, the UK, Japan, and Switzerland to test several hypotheses that may explain why the aggregate Okun's coeffcients are different across countries. Specifically, we show that...
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labor demand. Tightening eligibility to short-time work benefits tends to reduce the wage while the impact on unemployment …
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We analyse the implications of habit formation relating to wages in a multi-period efficiency-wage model. If employees …. Greater intensity does not necessarily have the same consequences, because wage adjustments counteract the initial level … impact. The firm's response additionally depends on the wage-dependency of dismissal costs since such costs make an …
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We evaluate the effects of outsourcing and wage solidarity on wage formation and equilibrium unemployment in a … heterogeneous labour market, where wages are determined by a monopoly labour union. We find that outsourcing promotes the wage … dispersion between the high-skilled and low-skilled workers. When the labour union adopts a solidaristic wage policy, it will …
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We evaluate the effects of international outsourcing and labor taxation on wage formation and equilibrium unemployment … in dual labor markets. Outsourcing promotes wage dispersion between the high-skilled and low-skilled workers. Higher … domestic low-skilled wage tax, higher payroll tax and lower wage tax exemption increase optimal outsourcing. Outsourcing will …
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In European Welfare States, low-skilled workers are typically unionized, while the wage formation of high … affect wage formation, employment and welfare in dual domestic labour markets. Higher productivity of outsourcing, lower cost … of outsourcing and lower factor price of outsourcing increase wage dispersion between the high-skilled and low …
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What are the impacts of labor tax reform on wage setting and employment to keep the relative tax burden per low … raising the wage tax and the tax exemption for the low-skilled workers will decrease the wage rate and increase labour demand … when the elasticity of substitution between consumption and leisure is higher (lower) than one. A higher degree of wage tax …
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What are the impacts of labor tax reform on wage setting and employment to keep the relative tax burden per low … raising the wage tax and the tax exemption for the low-skilled workers will decrease the wage rate and increase labor demand … when the elasticity of substitution between consumption and leisure is higher (lower) than one. A higher degree of wage tax …
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, search for employers, and residual wage shocks to account for these life cycle wage dynamics. We highlight the importance of … largest part of life cycle wage dynamics. It accounts for 50% of average wage growth, 50% of rising differences between gender …
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