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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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Socio-Economic Panel we show that women respond to their partners' unemployment with an increase in labor market … participation, which also leads to an increase in their employment probability. Our analysis considers within- and between …-effects separately, revealing differences in the relationships between women's labor market statuses and their partners' unemployment in …
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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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This paper empirically examines the impact of labour market counter-reforms on real GDP per capita and employment … employment protection legislation (EPL), which we further split into counter-reforms for regular and temporary workers, and … unemployment benefits (UB) counter-reforms. The effects of counter-reforms depend on the prevailing economic conditions and are not …
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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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wages. We estimate a negative connection between establishments' wage cyclicality and their employment cyclicality, thereby …
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Canadian unemployment rate in booms and busts. We find strong evidence in favor of asymmetric spillover effects. Unemployment … of the 2-year ahead forecast error of the Canadian unemployment rate in periods of slack vs. just 2% during economic … of the latter, lead to a temporary increase in the Canadian unemployment rate. Evidence of asymmetric spillover effects …
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increase in economic policy uncertainty on unemployment in recessions and expansions. We find the response of unemployment to … confirms that the contribution of EPU shocks to the volatility of unemployment at business cycle frequencies is markedly larger …
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We study the impact of graduating in a recession in Flanders (Belgium), i.e. in a rigid labor market. In the presence of a high minimum wage, a typical recession hardly influences the hourly wage of low educated men, but reduces working time and earnings by about 4.5% up to twelve years after...
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