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This paper provides a novel justification for a declining time profile of unemployment benefits that does not rely on …
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This article analyzes the behavioral effects of unemployment benefits (UB) and it characterizes their optimal level … decrease the duration in unemployment. Extensive numerical simulations indicate that the relationship between the level of the …
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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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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 … stronger productivity growth in the poor country, reducing both migration flows and unemployment in the rich country. This …
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cannot easily switch industries and wages are inflexible in the short run, globalization tends to increase unemployment. In … this situation, government unemployment benefits reduce the wages that exporting firm's need to pay workers as risk … state can simultaneously cause an increase in unemployment and exports …
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We investigate how continental European unemployment can be reduced without reducing unemployment benefits and without … reducing the net income of low-wage earners. Lower unemployment replacement rates reduce unemployment, the net wage and … unemployment benefits. A lower tax on labour increases net wages and - for certain benefit-systems - unemployment benefits as well …
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We build an analytically and computationally tractable stochastic equilibrium model of unemployment in heterogeneous … countercyclical unemployment, and is simultaneously consistent with procyclical reallocation, countercyclical separations and a … negatively-sloped Beveridge curve. Moreover, the model exhibits unemployment duration dependence, which (when calibrated to long …
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In a multi-country general equilibrium economy with mobile capital and rigid-wage unemployment, countries may differ in … conditions under which - in contrast to free trade with undistorted labor markets - welfare declines and unemployment increases …
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sharing, which results in aggregate unemployment. In this extended model, offshoring furthermore has non-monotonic effects on … unemployment and intra-group inequality among workers. The paper also offers a calibration exercise to quantify the effects of …
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The path breaking work of Card and Krueger (1993), showing higher minimum wage can increase employment turned the age-old conventional wisdom on its head. This paper demonstrates that this apparently paradoxical result is perfectly plausible in a competitive general equilibrium production...
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