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Kombilohn oder Workfare? : zur Wirksamkeit zweier arbeitsmarktpolitischer Strategien
Bonin, Holger; Kempe, Wolfram; Schneider, Hilmar - 2002
Das heutige System der sozialen Mindestsicherung verhindert in Deutschland die Ausbildung eines Niedriglohnsektors …. Dies ist eine wesentliche Ursache für die hohe Arbeitslosigkeit Geringqualifizierter. Dieser Beitrag stellt zwei häufig …
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Different skill levels and firing costs in a matching model with uncertainty : an extension of Mortensen and Pissarides (1994)
Kohns, Stephan - 2000
A matching model in the line of Mortensen and Pissarides (1994) is augmented with a lowskill labor market and firing costs. It is shown that even with flexible wages unemployment is higher among the low-skilled and increases with skill-biased technological change. The two main reasons are that...
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Low-skilled unemployment, biased technological shocks and job competition
Pierrard, Olivier (contributor);  … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001760442
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Trade, technology and labour markets : empirical controversies in the light of the Jones model
Pflüger, Michael - 2001
-documented fact. The debate about the causes of this development is dominated by two competing hypotheses, "North-South Trade" or …
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Temporary jobs, employment protection and labor market performance
Cahuc, Pierre; Postel-Vinay, Fabien - 2001
Many European labor markets are characterized by heavy employment protection taxes and the widespread use of fixed-duration contracts. The simultaneous use of these two policy instruments seems somewhat contradictory since the former primarily aims at limiting job destruction whereas the latter...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011391776
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Search and offshoring in the presence of "animal spirits"
Mitra, Devashish; Ranjan, Priya - 2009
In this paper, we introduce two sources of unemployment in a two-factor general equilibrium model: search frictions and fairness considerations. We find that a binding fair-wage constraint increases the unskilled unemployment rate and can at the same time lead to a higher unemployment rate for...
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Trade and child labor : a general equilibrium analysis
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu (contributor);  … - 2005
This paper augments the existing literature on trade and child labor by exploring the effects of terms of trade changes … quasi-linear preferences the effect of the terms of trade on child labor depends critically on the pattern of … marginal utility of income is affected by the terms of trade. We also extend the analysis to the case where factors move freely …
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Product market reforms and unemployment in Europe
Gersbach, Hans; Schniewind, Achim - 2001
In this paper we study how promoting product market competition by reducing mark-ups or by increasing productivity are able to complement labor market reforms. We use a simple general equilibrium model with different types of labor. The bottom-line of the paper is that product market reforms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011391687
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Modeling financial incentives to get unemployed back to work
Boone, Jan; Ours, Jan C. van - 2000
We model how unemployment benefit sanctions - benefit reductions that are imposed if unemployed do not comply with job search guidelines - affect unemployment. In our analysis we find that not only micro effects concerning the behavior of individual unemployed workers are relevant, but also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011318597
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Welfare effects of unemployment benefits when informality is high
Liepmann, Hannah; Pignatti, Clemente - 2021
We analyze for the first time the welfare effects of unemployment benefits (UBs) in a context of high informality, exploiting matched administrative and survey data with individual-level information on UB receipt, formal and informal employment, wages and consumption. Using a...
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