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The effect of shocks to labour market flows on unemployment and participation rates

Dixon, Robert J.; Lim, Guay C.; Ours, Jan C. van - 2014

This paper studies collective contests with endogenous cost sharing, general effort costs and intra-group heterogeneity of prize-valuation. Our objective is to clarify the relationship between cost sharing, intra-group heterogeneity within the competing groups and the elasticity of the marginal...

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Hours worked in Europe and the US : new data, new answers

Bick, Alexander; Brüggemann, Bettina; … - 2016

We use national labor force surveys from 1983 through 2011 to construct hours worked per person on the aggregate level and for different demographic groups for 18 European countries and the US. We find that Europeans work 19% fewer hours than US citizens. Differences in weeks worked and in the...

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Labour market dynamics in Australia : what drives unemployment

Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector - 2009

causes of the unemployment upturn in 1973-1983 and the subsequent decline in 1993-2006. Our results show that (i) the main … determinants of the unemployment rise in the 1970s and early 1980s were wage-push factors, the two oil price shocks and the … increase in interest rates, and (ii) the acceleration in capital accumulation was the crucial driving force of unemployment 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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Analysis of labor tax progression under heterogeneous domestic labor markets and flexible outsourcing

Koskela, Erkki - 2010

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 heterogeneous domestic labor markets, i.e. imperfect competition in low-skilled labor and perfect competition in high-skilled...

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Not in my backyard? : the local impact of wind and solar parks in Brazil

Scheifele, Fabian; Popp, David - 2024

Support from local citizens is important for the scale-up of renewable energy. We investigate the impact of utility-scale wind and solar parks on employment, GDP and public finances in Brazilian municipalities using a difference-in-differences design with matching. We find a positive employment...

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The economic burden of burnout

Nekoei, Arash; Jósef Sigurdsson; Wehr, Dominik Robert - 2024

We study the economic consequences of stress-related occupational illnesses (burnout) using Swedish administrative data. Using a mover design, we find that high-burnout firms and stressful occupations universally raise burnout risk yet disproportionately impact low-stress-tolerance workers....

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The right man for the job

Teulings, Coen N.; Gautier, Pieter - 2001

rates are consistent with weakly increasing returns in matching. The resulting equilibrium is not efficient. Unemployment …

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Sickness absence and search unemployment

Holmlund, Bertil - 2004

The paper presents a model that allows a unified analysis of sickness absence and search unemployment. Sickness appears … affect individual decisions on absence and search and the implications for employment, unemployment and nonparticipation. The …

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Mismatch unemployment in Austria : the role of regional labour markets for skills

Böheim, René; Christl, Michael - 2021

the regional and skill dimension of mismatch unemployment, we find a substantial increase of mismatch unemployment for …

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