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Recession and Deflation?
Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - 2022
to maintain their real wages by reducing labor demand still further. Furthermore, we argue inflationary pressures have …
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The insider-outsider theory: a survey
Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002
costs influence insider wages and outsiders? opportunities and how these costs affect employment and unemployment. We also …
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Active Labor Market Policies
Crépon, Bruno; van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2016
Active labor market policies are massively used with the objective being to improve labor market outcomes of individuals out of work. Many observational evaluation studies have been published. In this review, we critically assess policy effectiveness. We emphasize insights from recent randomized...
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Public-Sector Employment in an Equilibrium Search and Matching Model
Albrecht, James; Robayo-Abril, Monica; Vroman, Susan - 2017
unemployment rate, on the division of employment between the private and public sectors, and on the distributions of wages in the …
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Wage Flexibility in a Unionized Economy with Stable Wage Dispersion
Carlsson, Mikael; Häkkinen Skans, Iida; Nordström … - 2019
The paper estimates how wages respond to changes in regional unemployment using detailed Swedish micro data. The study … is set in an economy with close to complete union coverage where real wages have grown continuously in all parts of the … estimated elasticity of wages. Wage adjustments are larger for employees with high unemployment risk and for new hires entering …
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The Knowledge Lift : The Swedish Adult Education Program That Aimed to Eliminate Low Worker Skill Levels
Albrecht, James; van den Berg, Gerard J.; Vroman, Susan - 2005
The Swedish adult education program known as the Knowledge Lift is unprecedented in its size and scope, aiming to raise the skill level of all low-skilled workers towards the medium level. This paper evaluates the effects of program participation on individual labor market outcomes, notably...
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Immigration und Arbeitsmarkt: Eine oekonomische Perspektive
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1998
the labor market. Its impact on employment, wages and wealth depends crucially on the design of immigration policy …
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Public Employment and Redistributive Politics: Evidence from Russia?s Regions
Gimpelson, Vladimir; Treisman, Daniel; Monusova, Galina - 2000
Public employment grew surprisingly fast in Russia during the 1990s, at a time when total employment was falling. Most of this growth occurred in the country?s 89 regions, and rates varied among them. This paper seeks to explain this variation. Using panel data for 78 regions over 1992-1998 we...
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On th Identification of Relative Wage Rigidity Dynamics.
Puhani, Patrick A. - 2000
We present a new and simple empirical methodology to identify relative wage rigidity dynamics. The methodology is applied to data from the Polish Labour Force Survey for the period 1994 to 1998. We estimate ceteris paribus changes in relative wage and unemployment differentials for various...
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Wage Rigidities in Western Germany?
Puhani, Patrick A. - 2001
stability of educational wage premia was justified by market forces. However, relative wages did not respond to negative net …
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