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Survey Evidence on Wage Rigidity and Unemployment: Sweden in the 1990s
Agell, Jonas; Lundborg, Per - 1999
severe and prolonged macroeconomic shock affects wage rigidity and unemployment. Our second survey was conducted in 1998 …, when the unemployment rate was much higher, and the inflation rate much lower, than when we conducted the first survey in … 1991. We find no evidence that the increase in unemployment has softened the mechanisms generating wage rigidity. On the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321754
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On the Determinants of Labour Market Institutions: Rent-sharing vs. Social Insurance
Agell, Jonas - 2000
What determines the structure of labour market institutions? This paper argues that common explanations based on rent sharing are incomplete; unions, job protection, and egalitarian pay structures may have as much to do with social insurance of otherwise uninsurable risks as with rent sharing and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321727
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On the Analytics of the Dynamic Laffer Curve
Agell, Jonas; Persson, Mats - 2000
In this paper, we analyze government budget balance within a simple model of endogenous growth. For the AK model, simple analytical conditions for a tax cut to be self-financing can be derived. The critical variable is not the tax rate per se, but the transfer-adjusted tax rate. We discuss some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321820
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Survey evidence on wage rigidity and unemployment: Sweden in the 1990s
Agell, Jonas; Lundborg, Per - 1999
severe and prolonged macroeconomic shock affects wage rigidity and unemployment. Our second survey was conducted in 1998 …, when the unemployment rate was much higher, and the inflation rate much lower, than when we conducted the first survey in … 1991. We find no evidence that the increase in unemployment has softened the mechanisms generating wage rigidity. On the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321058
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Crime, unemployment and labor market programs in turbulent times
Nilsson, Anna; Agell, Jonas - 2003
We exploit the exceptional variation in municipality-level unemployment and spending on labor market programs in Sweden … during the 1990s to identify the impact of unemployment and programs on crime. We identify a statistically significant effect … of unemployment on the incidence of overall crime, burglary, auto-theft and drug possession. A calculation suggests that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321067