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, whereby special focus is placed on unemployment duration. The results of the study indicate that in contrast to reservation … wages, offered wages decline considerably with duration of unemployment. This is the main reason that ratios of reservation … wages to offered wages increase rapidly with duration of unemployment; on average, reservation wages begin to exceed offered …
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and matching unemployment. We show that trend growth in itself does not generate a trade-off for the monetary authority …
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The construction bust which accompanied the Great Recession, and the accompanying need to shift workers across sectors, have provoked a discussion about mismatch and the Beveridge Curve, alongside a discussion about firm-level dispersion. These discussions echo an ongoing discussion about the...
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This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective, in which firms' job offer and workers' job acceptance decisions are disentangled. Minimum wages reduce job offer incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that...
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reactiveness of inflation to the unemployment rate. In regard to a monetary union, the national unemployment multiplier in the …
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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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einer geringen Qualifikation behindert und zum Anstieg der Arbeitslosigkeit beigetragen. … impeded by the system of social assistance. As a consequence, unemployment increased. …
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labor market and skill obsolescence from long-term unemployment. The model can account for key features of the Great … aggregate demand raises unemployment and the training costs associated with skill obsolescence. Lower employment hinders …
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The standard search model of unemployment predicts, under plausible assumptions about household preferences, that … disembodied technological progress leads to higher unemployment. This prediction is at odds with the experience of industrialized … model's prediction. In the presence of nominal price rigidity faster growth is shown to lead to lower unemployment if the …
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This paper indicates that East Germany's unemployment originates primarily in the labor market, caused by the fast wage … traps. -- Unemployment ; labor market trap ; East Germany …
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