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unemployment is a non-monotonic function of the minimum wage level. Effects differ strongly by labour market segment. Cross …
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the unemployment spell. This is confirmed by complementary analysis with individual survey data suggesting that online job … search leads to additional formal job interviews after a few months in unemployment. …
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local unemployment affects participation and work intensity online. We find that, at the extensive margin, an increase in … commuting zone level unemployment is associated with more individuals joining the platform and becoming active in fulfilling … tasks. At the intensive margin, our results show that with higher unemployment rates, online labor supply becomes more …
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, it reduces unemployment by exerting downward pressure on wages. This trade-off is quantitatively assessed using a … bargaining and involuntary unemployment. In the simulations carried out using this model, the optimal degree of tax progressivity … ; tax progressivity ; optimal taxation ; collective wage bargaining ; unemployment ; microsimulation ; computable general …
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us to assess the effect of job search methods on escape rates from unemployment and, in a new departure, the impact of …
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The principal justification for minimum wage legislation resides in improving the economic condition of low-wage workers. Most previous analyses of the distributional effects of minimum wages have been confined to simulation exercises employing rather restrictive assumptions that guarantee the...
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unemployment rates since 1993 in combination with transition payments for the unemployed to start their own business can explain …
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This paper demonstrates that insiders can erect barriers to entry and skim rents by sinking costs in human capital when labour markets are otherwise perfectly contestable. The sunk costs nature of human capital investments may result from the need to satisfy ever increasing specialised skill...
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. The effects of training programmes on the outflows from unemployment and the effects of all ALMP programmes on the … gives some tentative support to the view that public training programmes can be used to reduce unemployment. …
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carried out using discrete hazard rate models on 14 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel, covering the period from 1983 to … 1996. I do not find any effects of unemployment duration on the transition from unemployment to selfemployment. Moreover …
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