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Employment subsidies and substitutable skills: an equilibrium matching approach
Cardullo, Gabriele; van der Linden, Bruno - 2006
on their interactions with the profile of unemployment benefits and with active labor market programs. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276998
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Employment Subsidies and Substitutable Skills: An Equilibrium Matching Approach
Cardullo, Gabriele; Linden, Bruno Van der - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
on their interactions with the profile of unemployment benefits and with active labor market programs. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761932
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Did European Labor Markets Become More Competitive in the 1990s? : Evidence from Estimated Worker Rents
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2004
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261830
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Wage Formation between Newly Hired Workers and Employers: Survey Evidence
Hall, Robert; Krueger, Alan B. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Some workers bargain with prospective employers before accepting a job. Others could bargain, but find it undesirable, because their right to bargain has induced a sufficiently favorable offer, which they accept. Yet others perceive that they cannot bargain over pay; they regard the posted wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233804
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What have we learned about the employment effects of severance pay? : Further iterations of Lazear et al.
Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2003
In this study we examine the contribution of severance pay to employment and unemployment development using data on …-varying labor market institutions. While the positive effect of severance pay on unemployment garners some support, there is no real …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261645
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Unemployment in the OECD : Models and Mysteries
Junankar, P. N. (Raja); Madsen, Jakob B. - 2004
This paper compares models used to explain OECD unemployment. The models suggest that the ?natural rate of unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261916
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Do Workers Really Benefit From Their Social Networks?
Fontaine, François - 2004
increasing the number of workers embedded in the social networks can increase the unemployment rate and decrease workers welfare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262031
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Hiring and Firing Costs, Adverse Selection
Saint-Paul, Gilles; Kugler, Adriana D. - 2000
In this paper, we present a matching model with adverse selection that explains why flows into and out of unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262352
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A Test of the ?Krugman Hypothesis? for the United States, Britain, and Western Germany
Puhani, Patrick A. - 2003
Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment … large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262722
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Credit constraints and the persistence of unemployment
Dromel, Nicolas; Kolakez, Elie; Lehmann, Etienne - 2009
In this paper, we argue that credit market imperfections impact not only the level of unemployment, but also its … steady-state unemployment, but also slow down the transitional dynamics. We then provide an empirical illustration based on a … persistence of unemployment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269566