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Whodunnit? Changes in the relative demand for unskilled and skilled labor
Schimmelpfennig, Axel - 1999
relative wage of the skilled. Increasing unemployment results only for a restrictive assumption about labor market rigidities. …
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The macroeconomics of the labor market: Three fundamental views
Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Héctor; Snower, Dennis J. - 2007
We distinguish and assess three fundamental views of the labor market regarding the movements in unemployment: (i) the … that all the short-run fluctuations automatically turn into long-run changes in the unemployment rate. We assert the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276418
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Worker identity, employment fluctuations and stabilization policy
Snower, Dennis J.; Lechthaler, Wolfgang - 2013
This paper provides a model of "social hysteresis" whereby long, deep recessions demotivate workers and thereby lead them to change their work ethic. In switching from a pro-work to an anti-work identity, their incentives to seek and retain work fall and consequently their employment chances...
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Provision of public goods, voting and agglomerative bias
Kopp, Andreas - 1998
Skill-biased technical change is identified as the driving force behind the changing skill composition in OECD countries rather than structural change. The finding is partly the result of the sectoral view taken. This paper suggests a different view which uses the production process as a...
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Impacts of labor taxation with perfectly and imperfectly competitive domestic labor markets under flexible outsourcing
Koskela, Erkki - 2009
What are the impacts of labor tax reform on wage setting and employment to keep the relative tax burden per low-skilled and high-skilled workers constant in the case of heterogenous domestic labor markets, i.e. imperfect competition in low-skilled labor and perfect competition in high-skilled...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003910021
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Who works for whom? : worker sorting in a model of entrepreneurship with heterogeneous labor markets
Dinlersoz, Emin Murat; Hyatt, Henry R.; Janicki, Hubert P. - 2016
Young and small firms are typically matched with younger and nonemployed individuals, and they provide these workers with lower earnings compared to other firms. To explore the mechanisms behind these facts, a dynamic model of entrepreneurship is introduced, where individuals can choose not to...
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Endogenous labor market participation and the business cycle
Häfke, Christian (contributor); Reiter, Michael (contributor) - 2006
Existing models of equilibrium unemployment with endogenous labor market participation are complex, generate … procyclical unemployment rates and cannot match unemployment variability relative to GDP. We embed endogenous participation in a … variabilities but also generates strongly countercyclical unemployment rates. With some wage rigidity the model also matches …
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Analysis of labor tax progression under heterogeneous domestic labor markets and flexible outsourcing
Koskela, Erkki - 2010
What are the impacts of labor tax reform on wage setting and employment to keep the relative tax burden per low-skilled and high-skilled workers constant in the case of heterogeneous domestic labor markets, i.e. imperfect competition in low-skilled labor and perfect competition in high-skilled...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009300802
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Labor market frictions and lowest low fertility
Guner, Nezih; Kaya, Ezgi; Sánchez Marcos, Virginia - 2019
The total fertility rate is well below its replacement level of 2.1 children in high-income countries. Why do women choose such low fertility levels? We study how labor market frictions affect the fertility of college-educated women. We focus on two frictions: uncertainty created by dual labor...
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Labor supply dynamics, unemployment and human capital investments
Wasmer, Etienne - 2002
composition of the labor force, between-groups wage inequality and the level of unemployment. The main result is that a labor … labor force, there is higher unemployment among low-experience workers, they do not accumulate enough on-the-job human …
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