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Jobs. Jobs? Jobs! : Orientierungshilfen für den Weg zu mehr Beschäftigung
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Franz, Wolfgang - 2000
Die Bekämpfung der Arbeitslosigkeit genießt oberste wirtschaftspolitische Priorität - dieser Feststellung wird kaum …
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Going the extra mile : effort by workers and job-seekers
Hertweck, Matthias S.; Lewis, Vivien; Villa, Stefania - 2019
We introduce two types of effort into an otherwise standard labor search model to examine indeterminacy and sunspot equilibria. Variable labor effort gives rise to increasing returns to hours in production. This makes workers more valuable and contributes to self-fulfilling profit expectations,...
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Household search and the aggregate labor market
Mankart, Jochen; Oikonomou, Rigas - 2015
two members. Households face unemployment risks but their members adjust their labor supplies to insure against … unemployment. We use the model to explain the cyclical properties of aggregate employment and participation. As in the US data, the … household against unemployment risks. …
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Higher-order income risk over the business cycle
Busch, Christopher; Ludwig, Alexander - 2020
We extend the canonical income process with persistent and transitory risk to shock distributions with left-skewness and excess kurtosis, to which we refer as higher-order risk. We estimate our extended income process by GMM for household data from the United States. We find countercyclical...
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Immigration, offshoring and American jobs
Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; Peri, Giovanni; Wright, Greg C. - 2012
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Spanish unemployment persistence and the ladder effect
Collard, Fabrice (contributor); Fonseca, Raquel (contributor) - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Wage divergence and unemployment : the impact of insider power and training costs
Muysken, Joan - 2000
The US labour market is characterized by a high skill wage mark-up and low unemployment, while the German labour market … has a low skill wage mark-up and a high, mainly unskilled unemployment rate. This paper adds an innovative labour supply … to an increased relative skill demand which is not matched by the skill supply and therefore mis-match unemployment …
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Wage rigidities in Western Germany? : microeconometric evidence from the 1990s
Puhani, Patrick A. - 2001
the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a …
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Flexibilität der qualifikatorischen Lohnstruktur und Lastverteilung der Arbeitslosigkeit : eine ökonometrische Analyse für Westdeutschland
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Franz, Wolfgang - 1997
, dass mit einer größeren Lohnspreizung die Lastverteilung der Arbeitslosigkeit bei gegebenem Output, Kapitaleinsatz und …
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Skills shortage and innovation openness
Carioli, Paolo; Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2023
Skills shortage has become a key policy issue in highly developed and innovation-oriented economies, with non-negligible consequences on firms' innovation activities. We investigate the effect of skills shortage on firms' innovation openness, which is considered to be one of the key drivers of...
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