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We study optimal government spending in a business cycle model with frictional unemployment. The Ramsey optimal policy …
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firms can explain the relatively high level of unemployment amongstlower educated workers and the relatively strong … level of education can notexplain the stronger cyclicality of the unemployment rate for lower educatedworkers. We conclude …
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In this paper, I study the wage a firm sets to attract high abilityworkers (hipo's) in situationsof unemployment. I … show that the higher unemployment, the larger afirm's incentives to sorthigh and low ability workers. Moreover, workers … will signal their(high) ability in situationsof (high) unemployment only if a job offers a high enough wage. Themain result …
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causal relationship from homeownership to unemployment. The literature confirms a decreasing effect of homeownership on … geographical mobility of workers, but does not in general confirm that homeowners have longer unemployment spells or higher … unemployment rates. Even though this finding is related to heterogeneity in the labour force and associated selectivity effects …
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In this paper we determine the feasibility of using data from thePanel Study of Income Dynamics to estimate the Burdett-Mortensengeneral equilibrium search model. The data contain sufficientinformation on wages, labor force states, durations, and transitionsto generate estimates of the model's...
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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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flows on wage formation as alternative to the traditional specification of wage equations where unemployment represents the …
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