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Increasing income inequality : productivity, bargaining and skill-upgrading
Frederiksen, Anders; Poulsen, Odile - 2010
In recent decades most developed countries have experienced an increase in income inequality. In this paper, we use an equilibrium search framework to shed additional light on what is causing an income distribution to change. The major benefit of the model is that it can accommodate shocks to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003941761
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Is there a trade-off between employment and productivity?
Junankar, Pramod N. - 2013
The aim of this paper is to analyse the possible trade-off between employment and productivity using panel data on … that there is a trade-off between employment and productivity. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010207261
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Unemployment invariance
Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002
This paper provides a critique of the "unemployment invariance hypothesis", according to which the behavior of the labor market ensures that the long-run unemployment rate is independent of the size of the capital stock, productivity, and the labor force. Using Solow growth and endogenous growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011412072
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On-the-job training and the effects of insider power
Díaz-Vázquez, Pilar; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002
will employment be affected? In addressing this question, we focus on the role of on-the-job training. We show that an … insider wage hike reduces recession-time employment but, in the presence of on-the-job training, increases boom …-time employment. Thus on-the-job training can make insider wage hikes less detrimental to average employment (over booms and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011413583
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Equilibrium employment in a model of imperfect labor markets
Garibaldi, Pietro (contributor); Wasmer, Etienne (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001868919
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Labour demand research : towards a better match between better theory and better data
Addison, John T.; Portugal, Pedro; Varejão, José M. - 2014
At first blush, most advances in labour demand were achieved by the late 1980s. Since then progress might appear to have stalled. We argue to the contrary that significant progress has been made in understanding labour market frictions and imperfections, and in modelling search behaviour and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010345537
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A theoretical model of the Chinese labor market
Fields, Gary S.; Song, Yang - 2013
system (hukou). The major existing theoretical models of employment and development - the Lewis model, the integrated labor …-decreasing. -- labor markets ; employment ; welfare economics ; China ; hukou …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009721339
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Using spatial econometric techniques to analyze the joint employment decisions of spouses
Kalenkoski, Charlene; Lacombe, Donald J. - 2014
Studies of the joint time-use decisions of spouses have relied on joint estimation of time-use equations, sometimes assuming correlated errors across spouses' equations and sometimes directly examining the effects of one spouse's time use on another's, relying on panel data or instrumental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010259539
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The impact of growth, labour cost and working time on employment : lessons from the French experience
L'Horty, Yannick (contributor);  … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001790857
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Labor market institutions and the employment-productivity trade-off : a wage posting approach
Chéron, Arnaud (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
This paper analyzes the implications of labor market institutions and policies on the employment-labor productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002478019