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costs influence insider wages and outsiders? opportunities and how these costs affect employment and unemployment. We also …
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In this paper, we study gains and losses that accrue to natives because of immigration. The gain on the aggregated level is called the ?immigration surplus?, which can be seen as analogous to a consumer surplus. We derive changes in the earnings of native owners of production factors by...
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the labor market. Its impact on employment, wages and wealth depends crucially on the design of immigration policy …
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This paper investigates the impact of labor markets and economies of agglomeration on firms location. We show that the existence of a lower bound on wage (e.g. a minimum wage or a reservation wage) introduces asymmetric location of firms. Moreover, changes in that lower bound or in global...
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knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a ?Solovian zone? where wages increase with … bliss point can only be made better-off by an increase in diversity. If wages are set by monopoly unions rather than set … employment in the material goods sector. International trade may reduce wages in poor countries and increase them in rich …
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core scope to set higher wages and to choose more generous welfare policies than their counterparts in the periphery …
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existing method may yield positive or negative externalities even if wages reflect marginal social products. We propose an …
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productivity, wages and exports spillovers in developing, developed and transitional economies. Although theory can identify a …
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workers are (i.e. the more their wages rise with employment duration), the more effective will unemployment vouchers be …
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's theoretical framework: (i) wages are higher in states with more generous unemployment benefits, (ii) the perceived probability of …
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