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model reveals that an anti-retrenchment law can cause wages and employment to rise or fall, depending on the parametric … raises wages and employment. In a subsequent section we assume that the law specifies exogenously the amount of compensation …, equilibrium wages fall. However beyond a certain point, further rises in s cause wages to rise. In other words, the relation …
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. We solve (i) for the Markov perfect equilibria with no commitment, under the assumption that the union chooses wages each … entire (infinite) sequence of wages. We conclude that the speed of adjustment of employment, that is higher in the … employment and wages only in the no-commitment case, i.e., the higher the relevance of adjustment costs the higher the wage and …
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In this study we examine the contribution of severance pay to employment and unemployment development using data on industrialized OECD countries. Our starting point is Lazear?s (1990) empirical dictum that severance payment requirements adversely impact the labor market. We extend his sample...
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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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determination. In the basic set-up, UISAs induce a trade union to lower wages. This effect can also arise if (1) balanced …
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Wage determination under asymmetric information generates inefficiencies due to excess turnover. Severance pay and layoff taxes can improve efficiency. We show that inefficient separations can even be fully removed with fixed separation taxes in the case where the relevant private information is...
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It is frequently argued that pure government-mandated severance transfers by the employer to the worker have neither employment nor welfare effect because they can be offset by private transfers from the worker to the employer. In this paper, using a dynamic search and matching model a la...
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, which predicts an ambiguous effect on wages: firing costs are expected to increase wages, because they increase the … short-term effect on wages - and also on unemployment. We find larger effects for older than for younger workers and for men … on wages takes place during the first year of the reform. Our simulations also show that the increase in wages is mostly …
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of notice is defined as the period an employer has to notify workers in advance of their up-coming dismissal. The wages …. Strong evidence is found that a longer 'dormant' term of notice leads to higher wages. In my sample, an additional month of … notice increases wages by three percent, ceteris paribus. …
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of notice is defined as the period an employer has to notify workers in advance of their upcoming dismissal. The wages …. Strong evidence is found that a longer 'dormant' term of notice leads to higher wages. In my sample, an additional month of … notice increases wages by three percent, ceteris paribus. …
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