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, directly from employer to employer as well as indirectly via an unemployment spell. In addition they are more likely to change …
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In employment relationships, a wage is an installment payment on an implicit long-term agreement between a worker and a firm. The price of labor that impacts firm's hiring decisions, instead, reflects the hiring wage as well as the impact of economic conditions at the time of hiring on future...
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This paper proposes an equilibrium matching model for developing countries' labor markets where the interaction between public, formal private and informal private sectors are taken into account. Theoretical analysis shows that gains from reforms aiming at liberalizing formal labor markets can...
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This article is an idiosyncratic survey of the insider-outsider theory, describing the vision underlying the theory … been dead-ends and red herrings in past research. The first section deals with the theory, concerning how labor turnover … costs influence insider wages and outsiders? opportunities and how these costs affect employment and unemployment. We also …
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Social networks may affect workers' labor market outcomes. Using rich spatial data from administrative records, we analyze whether the employment status of neighbors influences the employment probability of a worker who lost his job due to a plant closure and the channels through which this...
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the financial market, we address two prominent mechanism through which firms' financial constraints amplify unemployment … substantial decline in both unemployment and wages. Financial constraints therefore weaken the direct link between wage rigidity … and unemployment volatility. …
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This article is an idiosyncratic survey of the insider-outsider theory, describing the vision underlying the theory … been dead-ends and red herrings in past research. The first section deals with the theory, concerning how labor turnover … costs influence insider wages and outsiders’ opportunities and how these costs affect employment and unemployment. We also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762091
% for a 1 pp decline in the unemployment rate. For large recessions, like the Great Recession, that implies a decline in the …
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, directly from employer to employer as well as indirectly via an unemployment spell. In addition they are more likely to change …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008568304
It is often argued that a mandatory minimum wage is binding only if the wage density displays a spike at it. In this paper we analyze a model with search frictions and heterogeneous production technologies, in which imposition of a minimum wage affects wages even though, after imposition, the...
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