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For nearly 50 years academics have been studying how labor markets affect crime. The initial interesting and important theoretical and empirical work generated substantial interest in studying crime among economists, in particular, and scholars in the social sciences more broadly. This...
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This paper offers a reappraisal of the inflation-unemployment tradeoff, based on ?frictional growth? describing the … these shocks also generate plausible impulse-responses for unemployment. Although our theory contains no money illusion, no …
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to substantial differences in labor-market equilibrium between bargained and posted wages. The fraction of workers hired …
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's theoretical framework: (i) wages are higher in states with more generous unemployment benefits, (ii) the perceived probability of … pay and the local unemployment rate - in modern U.S. data. Consistent with recent evidence from more than 40 other … job-finding is lower in states with higher unemployment, and (iii) employees are less happy in states that have higher …
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bargaining, minimum wages, employment protection and unemployment benefits affect the way in which wages respond to labor supply … shocks, and, hence, the labor market effects of immigration. We employ a wage-setting approach which assumes that wages … decline with the unemployment rate, albeit imperfectly. We find that wage flexibility is substantially higher in the UK …
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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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flexible multi-state Mixed Proportional Hazard specifications for transition rates between employment, unemployment, and …' transition rates from unemployment to employment increase. Longer periods of non-employment generally decrease future transition …
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Die Arbeitsmarktreformen der letzten Jahre haben die strukturellen Anpassungsproblemedes deutschen Beschäftigungsmodells zum Teil gelindert - allerdings sind noch längst nichtalle Schwierigkeiten überwunden...
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Differences in regional unemployment in post-communist economies are large andpersistent. We show that inherited … variation in human-capital endowment across the regionsof four such economies explains the bulk of regional unemployment …
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We evaluate a randomized experiment of a statistical support system developed to assistcaseworkers in Swiss employment offices in choosing appropriate active labour marketprogrammes for their unemployed clients. This statistical support system predicted the labourmarket outcome for each...
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