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Orszag, Jonathan Michael; Snower, Dennis J. - 1999

disappointingly small effect of many past reform measures on unemployment, and the political difficulties in implementing more … extensive reform programs. We argue that the heart of these problems may be the failure of many European governments to … implement broad-based reform strategies. Our analysis suggests that major unemployment policies are characterised by economic …

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Characteristics of unemployment dynamics : the chain reaction approach

Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis J. - 2000

The aim of this paper is to analyze and estimate salient characteristics of unemployment dynamics. Movements in unemployment are viewed as "chain reactions" of responses to labor market shocks, working their way through systems of interacting lagged adjustment processes. In the context of...

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Can insider power affect employment?

Díaz-Vázquez, Pilar; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002

Do firms reduce employment when their insiders (established, incumbent employees) claim higher wages? The conventional answer in the theoretical literature is that insider power has no influence on employment, provided that the newly hired employees (entrants) receive their reservation wages....

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Unemployment in the European Union : a dynamic reappraisal

Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002

This paper examines the movements in EU unemployment from two perspectives: (a) the NRU/NAIRU perspective, in which unemployment movements are attributed largely to changes in the long-run equilibrium unemployment rate and (b) the chain-reaction perspective, in which unemployment movements are...

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Adjustment dynamics and the natural rate : an account of UK unemployment

Henry, S. G. B.; Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis J. - 1999

This paper challenges what is the standard account of UK unemployment, namely that the major swings in unemployment over the past 25 years are due predominantly to movements in the underlying empirical “natural rate of unemployment” (NRU). Our analysis suggests that the British NRU has...

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The caring hand that cripples : the East German labor market after reunification ; (detailed version)

Snower, Dennis J. (contributor); … - 2006 - Detailed Version

The East German labor market has hardly made any progress since German reunification, despite massive migration flows and support from the West. We argue that East Germany is in trouble precisely because of the support it has received. This paper explores the phenomenon of "the caring hand that...

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Unemployment in the European Union : institutions, prices, and growth

Karanassou, Marika (contributor); Sala, Hector (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Unemployment in the European Union : institutions, prices, and growth

Karanassou, Marika (contributor); Sala, Hector (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Multitasking and wages

Snower, Dennis J.; Goerlich, Dennis - 2013

This paper sheds light on how changes in the organization of work can help to understand increasing wage inequality. We present a theoretical model in which workers with a wider span of competence (higher level of multitasking) earn a wage premium. Since abilities and opportunities to expand the...

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