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This paper uses the Italian Social Security employer-employee panel to study the effects of the Italian reform of 1990 on worker and job flows. We exploit the fact that this reform increased unjust dismissal costs for firms below 15 employees, while leaving dismissal costs unchanged for bigger...
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show that a binding minimum wage -- while leading to unemployment -- is nevertheless desirable if the government values … redistribution toward low wage workers and if unemployment induced by the minimum wage hits the lowest surplus workers first. This …
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We construct a utility-based model of fluctuations, with nominal rigidities and unemployment, and draw its implications … for the unemployment-inflation tradeoff and for the conduct of monetary policy.lt;brgt;lt;brgt;We proceed in two steps. We … effect on unemployment in the constrained efficient allocation. We then focus on the implications of alternative real wage …
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the minimum wage on teenage unemployment, or its relative impact on black and white teenagers. The purpose of this paper … unemployment rates of teenagers, we explore several related issues: the relative importance of changing the level and coverage of …
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sharp discontinuities in eligibility for severance pay and extended unemployment insurance (UI) benefits in Austria …
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This paper examines how unemployment affects retirement and whether the Unemployment Insurance (UI) system and Social … consistent evidence of an effect. This suggests that in some ways SS may serve as a more effective form of unemployment insurance …
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How have labor market institutions and welfare-state transfers affected jobs and productivity in Western Europe …, relative to industrialized Pacific Rim countries? Orthodox criticisms of European government institutions are right in some … have had in the 1960s and 1970s. Similarly, other institutions closer to the core of the welfare state have caused no net …
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from the Paycheck Protection Program and states with more generous unemployment insurance benefits had milder declines and …
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We develop a computable general equilibrium model of the United States economy to study the unemployment effects of … carbon tax on aggregate unemployment is small and similar across the two labor mobility assumptions (0.2–0.3 percentage … points). The effect on unemployment in fossil fuel sectors is much larger under the immobility assumption – a 30 percentage …
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We study a large-scale French reform that provided generous downside insurance for unemployed individuals starting a business. We study whether this reform affects the composition of people who are drawn into entrepreneurship. New firms started in response to the reform are, on average, smaller,...
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