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exacerbates unemployment. Our richer setting allows for generational differences in the motivations for job search to be reflected … in two distinct inverted U‐shaped relationships between unemployment and high‐wage employment, one for youth and a … different one for adults. In turn, the relationship between overall unemployment and high‐wage employment is shown to be non …
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This paper considers a three-overlapping-generations model of endogenous growth wherein human capital is the engine of growth. It first contrasts the laissez-faire and the optimal solutions. Three possible accumulation regimes are distinguished. Then it discusses a standard set of tax-transfer...
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This paper studies second-best policies in an OLG model in which endogenous growth results from human capital accumulation. When young, individuals decide on education, saving, and nonqualified labour. When old, individuals supply qualified labour. Growth equilibria are inefficient in...
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The apparently unrelenting growth in the GDP-share of health spending (SHS) has been a perennial issue of policy concern. Does an equilibrium limit exist? The issue has been left open in recent dynamic models which take income growth and population aging as given. We view these variables as...
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This paper examines an economic union where oligopolistic firms produce by skilled and unskilled labor and do in-house R&D by skilled labor. The planner of the union accepts new members to the union, regulates the labor market through a minimum wage for unskilled labor and supports firms by...
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We analyze how wage setting institutions and job-security provisions interact on unemployment. The assumption that … exercises suggest that redundancy transfers and administrative dismissal restrictions have negligeable unemployment effects when … wages are flexible or when the minimum wage is low, but a dramatic positive impact on unemployment when there is a high …
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. This critical value decreases with unemployment benefits and increases with workers' risk aversion. We also show that in …
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"Contrary to widespread belief, we show that low-pay workers might not generally prefer that the minimum wage rate be increased to a level where the labor demand is unitary elastic. Rather, there exists a critical value of elasticity of labor demand such that increases in the minimum wage rate...
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This paper studies the impact of downward wage rigidity on wage dynamics and employment flows after the outbreak of major recessions over the last 30 years in Spain. Downward wage rigidity stems from collective agreements, which set province-industry-skill specific minimum wage floors for all...
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