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This paper proposes a model of efficiency wage with endogenous workers flows in interaction with imperfect competition on the product markets. Subject to economy-wide shocks, firms hire and fire workers thus generating a certain turnover. We show that the intensity of this turnover negatively...
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To understand how the welfare state adjusts to economic shocks it is important to explain both the genesis of popular preferences and the institutional incentives of governments to respond to these preferences. This paper attempts to do both, using a general theoretical framework and detailed...
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Job search models offer two complementary predictions about the effects of unemployment benefits on job search outcomes … among unemployed workers. By raising workers' reservation wages, unemployment benefits should contribute to both prolonged … spell duration and improved post-unemployment job quality. In contrast to many previous empirical studies that have …
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Economic job search theory offers two complementary predictions about the effects of unemployment benefits on job … search outcomes among unemployed workers. By raising workers' reservation wages, unemployment benefits should contribute to … both prolonged spell duration and improved post-unemployment job quality. In contrast to many previous empirical studies …
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) occupational unemployment. Some of these measures are novel. The paper relies on the European Social Survey 2002/2003 in order to … test the formulated hypotheses. The results show that a) skill specificity and occupational unemployment are important …) Arbeitslosigkeit innerhalb von Berufsgruppen. Einige dieser Faktoren werden in neuartiger Weise operationalisiert. Um die formulierten …
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Die Auswirkungen der von Covid-19 ausgelösten Wirtschaftskrise auf die Arbeitslosigkeit könnten kaum unterschiedlicher … sein als in den USA und Europa. Das gilt auch für die politischen Reaktionen: Während die EU-27 die Arbeitslosigkeit bisher …The effect of the economic crisis caused by Covid-19 on unemployment could not have been more different than between …
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The effects that the economic crisis triggered by COVID-19 is having on unemployment could hardly differ more than in … of the European Union (EU-27) managed to keep unemployment in check largely through heavy reliance on short-time work or … similar measures, the United States has been experiencing mass unemploy-ment reminiscent of the Great Depression of 1929 …
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Does the partisan character of governing parties play a role in the formation of fiscal policy? The conventional view is that the left tends toward excessive deficits while the right practices a more prudent and restrictive fiscal policy. However, there is little evidence that would sustain such...
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Arbeitslosigkeit, das Meinungsbild der Bevölkerung über Arbeitslose, anstehende oder vorangegangene Wahlen sowie die Höhe der …, whether the former and the current debates follow a recurrent pattern. To answer this question, the level of unemployment, the … answer the question, which lessons for Germany can be drawn from these experiences. It turns out that the German sanction …
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from unemployment. The fundamental concept of the project was the use of unemployed, who underwent customised training, to … der Su-che nach einem Arbeitsplatz und dem Austritt aus der Arbeitslosigkeit. Das grundlegende Konzept des Projektes lag …
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