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previous jobs, and thus much more than they get in unemployment benefits. However, our results also show that some groups, such … as women, tend to systematically demand lower wages. Also, we find that workers with high wage demands are contacted by … demands may contribute to high unemployment. …
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We survey the recent literature on the effects of active labor market policies on individual labor market outcomes like employment and income, for adult female individuals without work in European countries. We consider skill-training programs, monitoring and sanctions, job search assistance,...
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Are there any differences in how men and women fare from unemployment in terms of the wages they receive on a new job … experience unemployment will suffer a reduction of subsequent wages while no such effect could be found for women. These findings … unemployment duration was rather short, which may have prevented general capital from depreciating. However, the presence of large …
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that all the shortrun fluctuations automatically turn into long-run changes in the unemployment rate. We assert the …
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services are produced both in the market and within the households. We use the model to examine how unemployment and welfare … reduces unemployment whereas a tax cut on goods has no effect. A reform involving tax differentiation, with lower taxes on …
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Conventional models of equilibrium unemployment typically imply that proportional taxes on labor earnings are neutral … with respect to unemployment as long as the tax does not affect the replacement rate provided by unemployment insurance, i ….e., unemployment benefits relative to after-tax earnings. When home production is an option, the conventional results may no longer …
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Unemployment immediately upon graduation is associated with substantial and permanent future earnings losses. Even for … very short unemployment spells the estimated earnings losses are statistically significant. These results are stable for … that unemployment upon graduation has the causal effect of reducing future earnings prospects. …
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shipyard workers and miners. They have higher employment, not higher unemployment, and higher earnings than the comparison …
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treatment effects were positive - wages are predicted to increase, as are the employment rates of the treated. The equilibrium …
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The Swedish adult education program called Knowledge Lift is unprecedented in its size and scope, aiming to raise the skill level of all low-skilled workers towards the medium level. This paper evaluates the effects of program participation on individual labor market outcomes, notably employment...
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