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, with the result that too few hires are made in bad states of the world. Unemployment is involuntary. In an extension to the …
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The official unemployment rate has become an inadequate measure of labor market conditions. This poses a major … unemployment rate by weighing part-time workers with 62.5%, the proportion of the time they work relative to full-time workers. We … provide new monthly estimates of the unemployment rate for the period 1994-2019 and find that their average during this 25 …
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levels of unemployment. We consider a general equilibrium model where firms in one sector compete à la Cournot and a real … wage rigidity leads to unemployment. If firms consider only partial equilibrium effects when choosing quantities, the …
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Conventional models of equilibrium unemployment typically imply that proportional taxes on labor earnings are neutral … with respect to unemployment as long as the tax does not affect the replacement rate provided by unemployment insurance, i ….e., unemployment benefits relative to after-tax earnings. When home production is an option, the conventional results may no longer …
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and 'services' are produced both in the market and within the households. We use the model to examine how unemployment and … services reduces unemployment whereas a tax cut on goods has no effect. A reform involving tax differentiation, with lower …
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small reduction in the unemployment benefits, or introducing a small cash bonus for workers that get a new job, may have no … e.ect on unemployment in some cases, while eradicating significant levels of unemployment in other cases. Our analysis … multiple equilibria may exist in a game involving both workers and an unemployment-averse government. Furthermore, we explore a …
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selective extension of the potential duration of unemployment benefits. If social interactions are important, this policy change … affects entitled individuals not only directly, but also indirectly by altering the duration of unemployment in the reference …
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unemployment down to the minimum feasible rate which in the U.S. is most likely around 1.2%,--the rate which prevailed in 1944 and …
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It has been noted that the search and matching model cannot account for the observed unemployment fluctuations. Gertler …
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This article examines unemployment disparities and efficiency in a densely populated economy with two job centers and … changes in the workforce distribution have non-negligible effects on unemployment rates, wages, and net output, but cannot be …
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