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This research documents changes in employment and wages in the Netherlands for different types of workers. We compare … employment has been growing by 2 percent in the period 2017-2023, of which 1.8 percent has been due to additional workers finding … employment. Women have experienced the largest increase in employment, while the employment of men on temporary contracts has …
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We study optimal government spending in a business cycle model with frictional unemployment. The Ramsey optimal policy … consumption is always countercyclical); iii) stabilizes employment, in some cases even at the cost of higher consumption …
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flows on wage formation as alternative to the traditional specification of wage equations where unemployment represents the …
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It is often argued that a mandatory minimum wage is binding only if the wage density displays a spike at it. In this paper we analyze a model with wage setting, search frictions, and heterogeneous production technologies, in which imposition of a minimum wage affects wages even though, after...
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rate) and unemployment in Japan for the period between 1972 and 2002. We find that, although Japan’s unemployment rate has … been influenced by specific exogenous shocks, the effects of entrepreneurship on unemployment are not different when …
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Unemployment rates appear to vary widely at a subregional (e.g., local or provincial) level. Using spatial econometric … models for spatial autocorrelation, this paper focuses attention on the spatial structure of regional unemployment … of unemployment in the 103 provinces of Italy for the years 1998 and 2003. The results suggest that there is a clear …
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The continuing deterioration of the position of low skilled workers in the beginning of the 90's in essentially all industrialized countries is one of the most debated issues in both labor and macro-economics. In this paper a matching model with low and high skilled workers and simple and...
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the dynamic interaction between the wage tax and unemployment. (ii) Employment is boosted by budget deficits but …We investigate experimentally the economic effects of wage taxation to finance unemployment benefits for a closed … subsequent tax rate adjustments to balance the budget lead to employment levels substantially lower than theoretically predicted …
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pattern of searchunemployment does not match observed unemployment and we propose a new conceptof 'voluntary' unemployment …
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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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