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Holmlund, Bertil - 2014

a fruitful interplay between search theory and empirical work. This research has established that UI matters for labor …

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Business cycles, unemployment insurance, and the calibration of matching models

Costain, James; Reiter, Michael - 2003

This paper points out an empirical failing of real business cycle models in which unemployment is endogenized through a matching function. One can easily choose a calibration to make the cyclical fluctuation in unemployment as large in the model as it is in the data, or to make the response of...

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Temporary layoffs and unemployment insurance : is experience rating desirable?

Fath, Julia; Fuest, Clemens - 2002

This paper explores how the introduction of an experience rated system of unemployment insurance affects employment and welfare in a model where implicit contracts between firms and workers give rise to wage rigidities and unemployment. In the literature, it has been argued that experience rated...

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Unemployment insurance in unionized labor markets : neither Ghent nor centralized

Saha, David; Schöb, Ronnie - 2015

This paper analyzes unemployment insurance (UI) schemes in the presence of mobile workers and trade unions at industry or regional level that are capable of internalizing the effect of wage demands on UI contribution rates. We compare two types of existing UI systems. When UI is organized at...

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What hides behind the German labor market miracle? : unemployment insurance reforms and labor market dynamics

Hartung, Benjamin; Jung, Philip; Kuhn, Moritz - 2018

A key question in labor market research is how the unemployment insurance system affects unemployment rates and labor market dynamics. We revisit this old question studying the German Hartz reforms. On average, lower separation rates explain 76% of declining unemployment after the reform, a fact...

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Exports, unemployment and the welfare state

Janeba, Eckhard (contributor) - 2007

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Enterprise formation and labor market institutions

Kanniainen, Vesa; Vesala, Timo - 2000

The paper introduces a model of enterprise formation in a unionized economy with labor protection and wage bargaining. Enterprise formation is subject to future market risk and is shaped by labor market institutions in the post-entry stage. The predictions of the model are tested in...

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Team production in competitive labor markets with adverse selection

Siemens, Ferdinand von; Kosfeld, Michael - 2014

create externalities among workers, since their utility upon accepting a contract depends on their team's performance and … therefore on their colleagues' productivity. We study the effects of such externalities in a competitive labor market if workers …-efficient separation of workers according to their productivity. We further find that externalities facilitate equilibrium existence, where …

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Kind of Black : the musicians' labour market in Italy

Balestrino, Alessandro - 2009

It is estimated that only 5% of musicians in Italy are regularly employed. In an attempt at understanding such a peculiar situation, we build a theoretical model of the musicians' labour market in which we embed the main institutional features of the Italian system. We notice how the presence of...

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The employment effect of reforming a public employment agency

Launov, Andrey; Wälde, Klaus - 2015

By how much does an increase in operating effectiveness of a public employment agency (PEA) and a reduction of unemployment benefits reduce unemployment? Using a recent labour market reform in Germany as background, we find that an enhanced effectiveness of the PEA explains about 20% of the...

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