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When Ecuador raised its monthly Unified Minimum Wage from $170 to $200 in 2008, it affected 35 percent of all private sector workers. We use this unexpected minimum wage hike under former president Rafael Correa to assess the labor market impacts of the minimum wage. We use an administrative...
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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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market outcomes do not benefit significantly from naturalization. Naturalization reduces the risks of unemployment and …
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in their unemployment rate and not a decline in labour force participation rate. Policymakers should take account of …
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the regional and skill dimension of mismatch unemployment, we find a substantial increase of mismatch unemployment for …
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generalized anxiety disorder detract from the employment and labor force participation of males and females; however, we do not … addressing the potential endogeneity of mental illness, we continue to find that mental illness adversely affects employment and … gains in employment for 3.2 million individuals and reduction in workplace cost of absenteeism of $18.9 billion due to …
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downward rigidity, and magnifying the response of unemployment to negative shocks. We also consider layoffs and show that for a …
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density function with higher density and thereby generate large, asymmetric job-finding rate and unemployment reactions. Our …
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Anglo-Saxon countries have been relatively successful over the last two decades in producing employment growth and in … reducing unemployment compared to most continental European OECD countries. As a rule they have also been and are still ahead …
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. These changes led to higher job-finding rates and starting wages and more stable employment relationships after an … unemployment-spell. Consequently, our calculations suggest that the steady-state unemployment rate fell by as much as one-fifth. …
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