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Labor Market Pooling, Outsourcing and Labor Contracts

Picard, Pierre M.; Wildasin, David E. - 2014

Economic regions, such as urban agglomerations, face external demand and price shocks that produce income risk. Workers in large and diversified agglomerations may benefit from reduced wage volatility, while firms may outsource the production of intermediate goods and realize benefits from...

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Migration, Capital Formation, and House Prices

Grossmann, Volker - 2013

We investigate the effects of interregional labor market integration in a two-sector, overlapping-generations model with land-intensive production in the non-tradable goods sector (housing). To capture the response to migration on housing supply, capital formation is endogenous, assuming that...

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The Effect of Household Debt on Aggregate Demand - The Case of Spain

Jauch, Sebastian - 2013

Households in some European countries increased their indebtedness massively over the past 20 years. Besides household debt, also government debt and corporate debt are in some countries at levels not seen before. While there is a common agreement that these high debt levels are not sustainable...

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Market Externalities of Large Unemployment Insurance Extension Programs

Lalive, Rafael - 2013

This paper offers quasi experimental evidence of the existence of spillover effects of UI extensions using a unique program that extended unemployment benefits drastically for a subset of workers in selected regions of Austria. We use non-eligible unemployed in treated regions, and a...

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Does Culture Affect Unemployment? Evidence from the Röstigraben

Brügger, Beatrix - 2009

This paper studies the role of culture in shaping unemployment outcomes. The empirical analysis is based on local comparisons across a language barrier in Switzerland. This Röstigraben separates cultural groups, but neither labor markets nor political jurisdictions. Local contrasts across the...

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Regional Origins of Employment Volatility : Evidence from German States

Buch, Claudia M. - 2008

increase uncertainty through a higher volatility of employment. We use regional data from Germany to test whether openness for … trade has an impact on volatility. We find a downward trend in the unconditional volatility of employment, which has been … employment, measuring idiosyncratic developments across states, in contrast, has remained fairly unchanged. In contrast to …

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The China Shock : Learning from Labor Market Adjustment to Large Changes in Trade

Autor, David H. - 2016

of trade shocks into national-level outcomes. Employment has fallen in U.S. industries more exposed to import competition …, as expected. So too has overall employment in the local labor markets in which these industries were concentrated …. Offsetting employment gains in non-tradables, export-oriented tradables, or imported-input-using industries have yet to …

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Education, Unemployment and Migration

Eggert, Wolfgang - 2009

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 disproportionately skilled. The brain drain from the poor...

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Absenteeism, Unemployment and Employment Protection Legislation : Evidence from Italy

Scoppa, Vincenzo; Vuri, Daniela - 2021

as a worker discipline device, considering the different degree of job security offered by the Italian Employment …

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Wages, Rents, Unemployment, and the Quality of Life

Wrede, Matthias - 2021

Combining a spatial equilibrium model with a matching unemployment model, this paper analyzes the regional quality of life when wages, rents, and unemployment risk compensate for local amenities and disamenities. In particular, the paper shows for quasi-linear utility that the effects of any...

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