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This paper investigates regional or international transfers as a means to prevent immigration into unemployment. We analyze a two-country model with free migration in which the rich country is characterized by minimum wage unemployment. Matching grants for investment in infrastructure are...
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skilled workers, for not too high distortions in the labour market. Furthermore, it leads to a higher tax burden and a welfare …
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affect the well-established qualitative results of the impact labour tax reforms have: changes in the wage tax rate, the tax …
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a fruitful interplay between search theory and empirical work. This research has established that UI matters for labor …
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unemployment benefits. A lower tax on labour increases net wages and - for certain benefit-systems - unemployment benefits as well …
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This paper studies the role of job search assistance programs in optimal welfare-to-work programs. The analysis is based on a framework, that allows for endogenous choice of benefit types and levels, wage taxes or subsidies, and activation measures such as monitoring and job search assistance...
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This paper contributes to the analysis of central vs. decentral (firm-level) labour market negotiations. We argue that … behave competitively during firm-level negotiations. Assuming that in both cases the labour market conflict is settled … but to a higher wage rate, when compared with local labour market bargains. While this is an important theoretical result …
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We study the role of labour and credit market imperfections in the determination of equilibrium unemployment. In the … and organized labour bargain over the base wage. The sequential labour and credit market negotiations are assumed to take … that there is a monopoly union in the labour market …
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In this paper we study the link between elections, fiscal policy and aggregate fluctuations. The set-up is a stylized dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model incorporating both technology and political re-election shocks. The later are incorporated via a two-party model with elections. The...
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This article examines unemployment disparities and efficiency in a densely populated economy with two job centers and workers distributed between them. We introduce commuting costs and search-matching frictions to deal with the spatial mismatch between workers and firms. In a decentralized...
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