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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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We show that the largest increase in unemployment benefits in U.S. history had large spending impacts and small job …
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unemployment benefits on the duration of joblessness in Austria, and discuss implementation issues that may arise in similar …
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This paper presents evidence that job suburbanization caused significant declines in black employment from 1970 to 2000. I document that, conditional on detailed job characteristics, blacks are less likely than whites to work in suburban establishments, and this spatial segregation is stable...
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province. We find significant positive effects on persistence in postsecondary education institutions, earnings and employment …
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This paper combines data on GDP, unemployment, and Google's COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports with data on deaths …
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may face unemployment. Multipliers associated with different government expenditure programs differ markedly. The paper … describes policies that can mitigate precautionary behavior, leading to reduced unemployment. Greater wage flexibility may lead … to increased unemployment. The precautionary behavior is the antithesis of equilibrium behavior, suggesting that standard …
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U.S. macroeconomic evidence shows a negative relation between the rate of change of wages and unemployment. In contrast …, most theories of wage determination imply a negative relation between the level of wages and unemployment. In this paper … -- from real interest rates to oil prices to payroll taxes -- on the natural rate of unemployment …
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particular, it provides a natural interpretation for the dynamic inflation--unemployment relation found in the data …
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inflation, strong real wage growth, and low rate of unemployment in the U.S. economy during the late 1990s. Many of these … univariate trends in the unemployment rate and in the rate of productivity growth, these coefficients are stable. This suggests … explanations of movements of wages, prices and unemployment over the 1990s, and indeed over the past forty years, must focus on …
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