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labor input, but it predicts a strong counterfactually negative long run relationship between inflation and unemployment … negative long run relationship between trend inflation and unemployment provides indirect evidence against the proposed …
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This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective … incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that sufficiently low minimum wages may do no harm to employment …
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falls in the trend employment-population ratio. The recent shift in the Beveridge Curve during the Great Recession is …
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full Danish flexicurity set of policies (low employment protection, high unemployment benefits and workfare). Our results … renowned Danish miracle by evaluating their unemployment and inequality effects and their complementarities. We develop a … show that implementing the Danish flexicurity concept in Germany would reduce unemployment and earnings inequality …
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This paper presents a theory explaining the labor market matching process through microeconomic incentives. There are heterogeneous variations in the characteristics of workers and jobs, and firms face adjustment costs in responding to these variations. Matches and separations are described...
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Beschäftigte laufend auf Ihre Beschäftigungskonten ein, von denen sie während der Arbeitslosigkeit Beträge abheben können. Werden …We present a proposal for reforming unemployment assistance in Germany through the introduction of unemployment … accounts (UAs). Instead of paying taxes that finance the unemployment assistance, employed people make ongoing contributions to …
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This paper provides a theoretical and quantitative analysis of various types of wellknown employment subsidies. Two … important questions are addressed: (i) How should employment subsidies be targeted? (ii) How large should the subsidies be? We …) improve employment and welfare, (b) do not raise earnings inequality and (c) are self-financing. This criterion enables us to …
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We introduce unemployment and endogenous selection of workers into different skill-classes in a trade model with two … sectors and heterogeneous firms. This allows us to study the distributional consequences and the skill-specific unemployment … loose in terms of real wages and employment levels in the skilled labor intensive sector, skilled workers loose in terms of …
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We introduce search and matching unemployment into a model of trade with differentiated goods and heterogeneous firms …
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impeded by the system of social assistance. As a consequence, unemployment increased. … einer geringen Qualifikation behindert und zum Anstieg der Arbeitslosigkeit beigetragen. …
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