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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009752694
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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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What do participation fluctuations tell us about labor supply elasticities?
Häfke, Christian; Reiter, Michael - 2011
participation. A model that is calibrated to replicate the variability of unemployment and participation, and the negative … correlation of unemployment and GDP, implies an aggregate labor supply elasticity along the extensive margin of around 0.3 for men …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009516939
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003297703
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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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Gender, selection into employment, and the wage impact of immigration
Borjas, George J.; Edo, Anthony - 2021
Immigrant supply shocks are typically expected to reduce the wage of comparable workers. Natives may respond to the lower wage by moving to markets that were not directly targeted by immigrants and where presumably the wage did not drop. This paper argues that the wage change observed in the...
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The effects of large universal child benefits on female labour supply
Magda, Iga; Kiełczewska, Aneta; Brandt, Nicola - 2018
In 2016 the Polish government introduced a large new child benefit, called "Family 500+", with the aim to increase fertility from a low level and reduce child poverty. The benefit is universal for the second and every further child and means-tested for the first child. Increasing out-of-work...
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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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The impacts of COVID-19 on female labor force participation in Iran
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Salehi-Isfahani, Djavad; Minh Do - 2024
While female labor force participation (LFP) in Iran is among the lowest in the world, there is hardly any study on the COVID-19 pandemic effects on the country's female LFP. We find that female LFP decreased during the pandemic years by around 1 percentage point in 2021 and 2022. When...
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