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In the conventional textbook demand-supply model of competitive labour markets, introduction of a minimum wage above the market-clearing level must reduce employment. Empirical findings suggest, however, that this might not always be the case, which appears to be most readily explained by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003919807
The low level of job search is a unique feature of the Hungarian labour market compared to other former communist countries. The paper looks at search intensity among the non-employed using micro-data of the European Labour Force Survey. A section comparing Hungary, Poland and Slovakia in detail...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010494695
The low level of job search is a unique feature of the Hungarian labour market compared to other former communist countries. The paper looks at search intensity among the non-employed using micro-data of the European Labour Force Survey. A section comparing Hungary, Poland and Slovakia in detail...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003919789
Built upon data from 11 subsequent waves of yearly wage surveys carried out by the National Labour Center in Hungary from 1992 to 2003, the paper examines, with the use of elementary statistical tools, whether or not earnings fluctuations differed in size among groups of employees with different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010494689
Built upon data from 11 subsequent waves of yearly wage surveys carried out by the National Labour Center in Hungary from 1992 to 2003, the paper examines, with the use of elementary statistical tools, whether or not earnings fluctuations differed in size among groups of employees with different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003774181
. Unanticipated inflation redistributes income and wealth. In order to model the wealth distribution, we study a 60-period OLG model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005345083
In the conventional textbook demand-supply model of competitive labour markets, introduction of a minimum wage above the market-clearing level must reduce employment. Empirical findings suggest, however, that this might not always be the case, which appears to be most readily explained by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010494691
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to close and the greater is the danger of credit booms and overheating. We argue that inflation targeting with floating … Maastricht inflation criterion which as currently defined has lost its economic logic. -- euro area enlargement ; convergence … ; capital flows ; credit boom ; exchange rate regime ; inflation ; Maastricht …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003770688
to close and the greater is the danger of credit booms and overheating. We argue that inflation targeting with floating … Maastricht inflation criterion which as currently defined has lost its economic logic. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010494377