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This paper evaluates the extent of wage rigidities in Colombia over a period, 2002-2014, in which the fall in … unemployment was relatively slow with respect to sustained economic growth. Following Holden and Wulfsberg (2009), we compute a … description of the wage setting rule in Colombia, compare it with the common one in the advanced economies, and call for a far …
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This paper addresses the design of the machinery of collective bargaining from the perspective of the needs of microeconomic and macroeconomic flexibility. In the former context, greater attention is given over to enterprise flexibility than external adjustment. In the latter context, close...
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of time-varying policy and institutional regressors. Yet another is our examination of unemployment and participation … lower participation, even if the unemployment effects are muted. Although we report some similar findings to Neumark and …
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Based on a two-country model it is scrutinized how the structure of the unemployment benefit system affects the … consequences of idiosyncratic labor market shocks on real wages and unemployment in other countries. International spillover …
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of time-varying policy and institutional regressors. Yet another is our examination of unemployment and participation … lower participation, even if the unemployment effects are muted. Although we report some similar findings to Neumark and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008455546
This paper investigates whether increases in the minimum wage in France have the same impact on the average wage when intended to preserve the purchasing power of the minimum wage as when intended to raise it. We find that the impact of the minimum wage on the average wage is strong, but differs...
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This paper investigates whether increases in the minimum wage in France have the same impact on the average wage when intended to preserve the purchasing power of the minimum wage as when intended to raise it. We find that the impact of the minimum wage on the average wage is strong, but differs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319574
on their interactions with the profile of unemployment benefits and with active labor market programs. …
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on their interactions with the profile of unemployment benefits and with active labor market programs. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761932
This paper analyses the evolution of quantitative measures of employee rents in Europe during the nineties, using the European Household Panel Survey. One looks at two class of measures: wage differentials between workers along industry and firm size dimensions, and estimated welfare differences...
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