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Employment Protection, Firm Selection, and Growth

Poschke, Markus - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper analyzes the effect of firing costs on aggregate productivity growth. For thispurpose, a model of endogenous growth through selection and imitation is developed. It isconsistent with recent evidence on firm dynamics and on the importance of reallocation forproductivity growth...

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Product market deregulation and the US employment miracle

Ebell, Monique; Haefke, Christian - 2006

We consider the dynamic relationship between product market entry regulation and equilibrium unemployment. The main theoretical contribution is combining a job matching model with monopolistic competition in the goods market and individual wage bargaining. Product market competition affects...

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Efficiency in a search and matching economy with a competitive informal sector

Charlot, Olivier; Malherbet, Franck; Ulus, Mustafa - 2012

We consider a dual labor market with a frictional formal sector and a competitive informal sector. We show that the size of the informal sector is generally too large compared to the optimal allocation of the workers. It follows that our results give a rationale to informality-reducing policies.

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Structural Change and the Kaldor Facts of Economic Growth

Foellmi, Reto; Zweimüller, Josef - 2002

massive changes in the structure of production and employment; and the Kaldor facts of economic growth. We assume that … industries with an expanding and those with a declining employment share coexist, and each such industry goes (or has already …

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A Macroeconomic Experiment in Mass Immigration

Hercowitz, Zvi; Yashiv, Eran - 2002

This paper studies the effects of mass immigration from the former USSR to Israel in the 1990s on the employment of the … native employment and the relative price of domestic goods – is estimated, finding negative effects of immigration on native … employment a year after arrival. The delay in the effect is attributed to a positive impact of immigration on the excess demand …

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The Impact of the Unemployment Benefit System on International Spillover Effects

Beissinger, Thomas; Büsse, Oliver - 2003

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 effects are caused by changes in world real income. The...

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Bismarck versus Beveridge: Which Unemployment Compensation System is More Prone to Labor Market Shocks?

Beissinger, Thomas; Buesse, Oliver - 2001

Based on a model with imperfectly competitive labor and product markets the real consequences of labor market shocks for economies with either an earnings-related or flatrate unemployment compensation system are considered. A distinctive feature of the analysis is the comparison of both...

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Unemployment compensation and the allocation of labor in developing countries

Charlot, Olivier; Malherbet, Franck; Ulus, Mustafa - 2013

This paper studies the effects of the introduction of unemployment compensation (UC) in countries characterized by pervasive informality. We provide a simple framework to analyze the impact of UC on the allocation of workers between formal and informal activities, as well as the allocation of...

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Product market deregulation and labor market outcomes

Ebell, Monique; Haefke, Christian - 2003

Recently, the interactions between product market structure and labor market outcomes have come under increased scrutiny. This paper considers the dynamic relationship between product market entry regulation and equilibrium unemployment and wages, both theoretically and quantitatively. The main...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261653

Product market regulation and endogenous union formation

Ebell, Monique; Haefke, Christian - 2006

We contribute to the growing literature which aims to link product market regulation and competition to labor market outcomes, in an attempt to explain the divergent US and continental European labor market performance over the past two decades. The main contributions of this paper are...

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