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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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This paper reviews a new framework for analyzing the interrelationship between inequality, unemployment, labor market …. It implies that the opening of trade may raise inequality and unemployment, but always raises welfare. Unilateral … reductions in labor market frictions increase a country's welfare, can raise or reduce its unemployment rate, yet always hurt the …
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How many "American jobs" have U.S.-born workers lost due to immigration and offshoring? Or, alternatively, is it possible that immigration and offshoring, by promoting cost-savings and enhanced efficiency in firms, have spurred the creation of jobs for U.S. natives? We consider a multi-sector...
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. Government incentives to production may alleviate high unemployment in this economy, but at the cost of exacerbating sclerosis …
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and Sweden). We conduct inference with mixed frequency data, combining quarterly series for unemployment, vacancies, GDP …, consumption, and investment, with annual data on unemployment flows. Parameters and shocks are estimated separately for each … country, which can then vary in terms of search and hiring costs, workers' bargaining power, unemployment benefits levels …
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poor labor market to a better labor market. We find that modifications raise the unemployment rate by about 0.5 percentage … individuals losing skills as unemployment duration is longer …
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This study constructs a new data set on unemployment rates in Latin America and the Caribbean and then explores the … determinants of unemployment. We compare different countries, finding that unemployment is influenced by the size of the rural … unemployment over time, finding that they are caused by contractions in aggregate demand. These demand contractions result from …
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generates high unemployment in equilibrium, we estimate a structural search model that incorporates both observed heterogeneity … share of youth experiencing long-term unemployment …
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This paper surveys recent research on employment and unemployment in the 1930s. Unlike earlier studies that tended to … dispute the view that representative-agent models are useful for interpreting shifts in employment and unemployment over the …
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foregone unemployment insurance about equally erode the rewards from retaining a job, or starting a new one …
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