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A search model of the labor market is augmented to include commuting time to work. The theory posits that wages are … impact of commute time on job acceptance decisions. We also use the theory to calculate the bargaining power of workers which …
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Wage determination under asymmetric information generates inefficiencies due to excess turnover. Severance pay and layoff taxes can improve efficiency. We show that inefficient separations can even be fully removed with fixed separation taxes in the case where the relevant private information is...
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Host countries have implemented permanent and guest-worker (GW) immigration programs in recent decades, while the temporary movement of service providers under Mode IV of the GATS is one of the issues being negotiated at the Doha Round of the WTO. Though decisions on what programs to adopt have...
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Immigration continues to be on the forefront of the policy debate on both sides of the Atlantic. A number of reforms of permanent and guest-worker (GW) immigration programs are being considered, and the temporary movement of service providers under Mode IV (GATS) is being negotiated at the Doha...
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's likelihood rises with the relative commodity price and labor inflow; iii) a labor inflow under internal equilibrium results in a … higher steady-state capital-labor ratio and manufacturing output, and unchanged NR and commodity output; iv) import and … labor outflow (openness by the North), improved regulation, technical change and a production tax. -- Renewable natural …
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This paper provides a different basis than previous analyses for regional bloc formation and regional migration. Due to low bargaining power and fixed costs, small states face a severe disadvantage in negotiations with the rest of the world and might benefit by forming a regional bloc. The study...
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Building a model with three imperfect markets - goods, labor and credit - representing a product's life-cycle, we find … that goods market frictions drastically change the qualitative and quantitative dynamics of labor market variables. The … search models of the labor market fail in one of the two dimensions. Two factors related to goods market frictions generate …
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Unemployment may depend on equilibrium in other markets than the labor markets. This paper adresses this old idea by … introducing search frictions on several markets: in a model of credit and labor market imperfections as in Wasmer and Weil (2004 …
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labor frictions. Under standard assumptions, theory always implies a motononic negative link between capital-labor ratios …Employment protection (EPL) has a well known negative impact on labor flows as well as an ambiguous but often negative … effect on employment. In contrast, its impact on capital accumulation and capital-labor ratio is less well understood. The …
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Cultural diversity is a complex and multi-faceted concept. Commonly used quantitative measures of the spatial distribution of culturally-defined groups – such as segregation, isolation or concentration indexes - are often only capable of identifying just one aspect of this distribution. The...
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