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Labour Market Performance Effects of Discrimination and Loss of Skill
Larsen, Birthe; Waisman, Gisela - Økonomisk Institut, Copenhagen Business School - 2012
skills during the experience of unemployment. Within a search and matching model, we show that all natives and immigrants are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011019042
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Underground Activities and Labour Market Performance
Larsen, Birthe; Kolm, Ann-Sofie - Økonomisk Institut, Copenhagen Business School - 2010
actual unemployment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010538868
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Skill level, Cognitive Ability, Unemployment and Welfare
Larsen, Birthe - Økonomisk Institut, Copenhagen Business School - 2004
. Furthermore, if the presence of skill-biased technological shocks increase unemployment, this may explain why the market it …-between subsidizing education and thereby reducing unemployment and optimizing welfare may be eliminated. We analyse this issue in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419437
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Wages, unemployment, and the underground economy
Kolm, Anne-Sofie; Larsen, Birthe - Økonomisk Institut, Copenhagen Business School - 2003
unemployment. A higher audit rate has an ambiguous impact on unemployment, and may actually increase the size of the underground …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419442
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Does Tax Evasion Affect Unemployment and Educational Choice?
Kolm, Ann-Sofie; Larsen, Birthe - Økonomisk Institut, Copenhagen Business School - 2006
punishment rates so to more than fully counteract the distortion created by the government’s inability to tax the informal sector. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419471
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Moral, the Informal Sector, and Unemployment
Kolm, Ann-Sofie; Larsen, Birthe - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2001
facilitates an analysis of how wage setting and unemployment is affected by punishment policies, which is ignored in the previous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005644520
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Does Tax Evation Affect Unemployment and Educational Choice?
Kolm, Ann-Sofie; Larsen, Birthe - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2003
While examining the macroeconomic effects of government tax and punishment policies, this paper develops a three-sector general equilibrium model featuring matching frictions and worker-firm wage bargaining. Workers are assumed to differ in ability, and the choice of education is determined...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005644561
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Wages, Unemployment, and the Underground Economy
Kolm, Ann-Sofie; Larsen, Birthe - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2001
higher punishment rates and a higher audit rate on labor market performance, and we find that a higher punishment rate (i … both sectors, and (iii) reduces the unemployment rate. The effect of a higher audit rate is less clear. We find that a … ambiguous impact on unemployment and real wages. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005644617
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Who is Hurt by Discimination?
Waisman, Gisela; Larsen, Birthe - Linnaeus Center for Integration Studies (SULCIS), … - 2008
-bargaining setting including a risk of losing skills during the experience of unemployment. The negative effects of discrimination in the … form of higher unemployment and lower wages spread to all workers, immigrants and natives, in all sectors of the economy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005648706