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Monetary persistence and the labor market : a new perspective

Lechthaler, Wolfgang; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - 2010

sluggish. Job creation and job destruction are negatively correlated. And the volatility of unemployment is much larger than in …

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A theory of wage adjustment under loss aversion

Ahrens, Steffen; Pirschel, Inske; Snower, Dennis J. - 2014

We present a new theory of wage adjustment, based on worker loss aversion. In line with prospect theory, the workers' perceived utility losses from wage decreases are weighted more heavily than the perceived utility gains from wage increases of equal magnitude. Wage changes are evaluated...

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The minimum wage from a two-sided perspective

Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - 2014

This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective, in which firms' job offer and workers' job acceptance decisions are disentangled. Minimum wages reduce job offer incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that...

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Worker identity, employment fluctuations and stabilization policy

Lechthaler, Wolfgang; Snower, Dennis J. - 2013

This paper provides a model of "social hysteresis", whereby long, deep recessions demotivate workers and thereby lead them to change their work ethic. In switching from a pro-work to an anti-work identity, their incentives to seek and retain work fall and consequently their employment chances...

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Unemployment in the European Union : institutions, prices, and growth : presented at CESifo Area Conference on Employment and Social Protection, June 2004

Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector; Snower, Dennis J. - 2004

This paper presents a reappraisal of unemployment movements in the European Union. Our analysis is based on the chain … reaction theory of unemployment, which focuses on (a) the interaction among labor market adjustment processes, (b) the … growth drivers. Estimating a system of labor market equations for a panel of EU countries, we derive the dynamic unemployment …

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