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The Effect of Shocks to Labour Market Flows on Unemployment and Participation Rates
Dixon, Robert J. - 2014
interact and affect the evolution of unemployment rates and participation rates, the two main indicators of labour market … performance. Our analysis has two special features. First, apart from the two labour market states – employment and unemployment … that a shock to the net flow from unemployment to employment drive the unemployment rate and the participation rate in …
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Impacts of Labor Taxation with Perfectly and Imperfectly Competitive Domestic Labor Markets under Flexible Outsourcing
Koskela, Erkki - 2009
What are the impacts of labor tax reform on wage setting and employment to keep the relative tax burden per low-skilled and high-skilled workers constant in the case of heterogenous domestic labor markets, i.e. imperfect competition in low-skilled labor and perfect competition in high-skilled...
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Labour Market Institutions and Unemployment- An International Comparison
Flaig, Gebhard - 2011
This paper deals with the effects of labour market institutions on unemployment in a panel of 19 OECD countries for the … effects of institutions on unemployment. Our main results are that on the average a tighter employment protection, a higher … of the unemployment rate. Our novel contribution is the estimation of panel models where we allow for heterogeneous …
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Business Cycle Asymmetries and the Labor Market
Kohlbrecher, Britta - 2016
density function with higher density and thereby generate large, asymmetric job-finding rate and unemployment reactions. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012994696
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The Distributional Consequences of Tax Reforms Under Market Distortions
Angelopulos, Kōnstantinos; Jiang, Wei; Malley, James R. - 2021
In this paper we examine the importance of imperfect competition in product and labour markets in determining the long-run welfare effects of tax reforms assuming agent heterogeneity in capital holdings. Each of these market failures, independently, results in welfare losses for at least a...
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Labour Market Participation in Brazil : A Discrete Game Approach
Resende, Marcelo - 2017
The paper aims to investigate the labour market participation of couples in Brazil in 2013. The observed endogenous variables portraying participation are assumed to be the outcome of a static discrete game between the partners. Different solution concepts are considered (Nash, Stackelberg and...
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National Minimum Wage and Employment of Young Workers in the UK
Fidrmuc, Jan - 2013
We analyze the impact of the UK national minimum wage (NMW) on the employment of young workers. The previous literature found little evidence of an adverse impact of the NMW on the UK labor market. We focus on the age-related increases in the NMW at 18 and 22 years of age. Using regression...
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Labor Market Institutions and the Cost of Recessions
Krebs, Tom - 2017
This paper studies the effect of two labor market institutions, unemployment insurance (UI) and job search assistance … search unemployment, skill depreciation during unemployment, and idiosyncratic as well as aggregate labor market risk. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012964065
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Fiscal Multipliers in a Two-Sector Search and Matching Model
Angelopoulos, Konstantinos - 2015
This paper evaluates the effects of policy interventions on sectoral labour markets and the aggregate economy in a business cycle model with search and matching frictions. We extend the canonical model by including capital-skill complementarity in production, labour markets with skilled and...
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Wages and Employment : The Role of Occupational Skills
Girsberger, Esther Mirjam - 2018
worker-job complementarity, we estimate how interpersonal, cognitive and manual skills map into job offers, unemployment and …
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