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The Return of the Long-Run Phillips Curve

Graham, Liam; Snower, Dennis J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

-run inflation-unemployment tradeoff. …

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Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

This paper provides a critique of the "unemployment invariance hypothesis," according to which the behavior of the … labor market ensures that the long-run unemployment rate is independent of the size of the capital stock, productivity, and … equilibrating mechanisms to ensure unemployment invariance and that other markets may perform part of the equilibrating process as …

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Anatomy of Policy Complementarities

Orszag, J. Michael; Snower, Dennis J. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1998

The analysis provides a new explanation for two widespread problems concerning European unemployment policy: the … disappointingly small effect of many past reform measures on unemployment, and the political difficulties in implementing more … implement broad-based reform strategies. Our analysis suggests that major unemployment policies are characterized by economic …

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Home Sweet Home? Macroeconomic Conditions in Home Countries and the Well-Being of Migrants

Akay, Alpaslan; Bargain, Olivier; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2014

-being responds negatively (positively) to an increase in the GDP (unemployment rate) of their home country. That is, we originally …

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Home Sweet Home? Macroeconomic Conditions in Home Countries and the Well-Being of Migrants

Akay, Alpaslan; Bargain, Olivier; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

-being responds negatively (positively) to an increase in the GDP (unemployment rate) of their home country. That is, we originally …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010734424

Is Germany the North Star of Labor Market Policy?

Rinne, Ulf; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Germany's recovery from an unemployment disease and its resilience to the Great Recession is remarkable. Its success …

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Euroskepticism in the Crisis: More Mood than Economy

Ritzen, Jo; Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Wehner, Caroline - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Before the Great Recession, rising income inequality within the European Union member states has been considered to be one driver for an increasing Euroskepticism. Using rich data on attitudes towards European integration from the Eurobarometer (EB) surveys, we revisit the issue by analyzing the...

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Centralized Bargaining, Multi-Tasking, and Work Incentives

Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012

The paper examines the implications of an important aspect of the ongoing reorganization of work - the move from occupational specialization toward multi-tasking - for centralized wage bargaining. The analysis shows how, on account of this reorganization, centralized bargaining becomes...

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Home Sweet Home? Macroeconomic Conditions in Home Countries and the Well-Being of Migrants

Akay, Alpaslan; Bargain, Olivier; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2014

This paper examines whether the subjective well-being of migrants is responsive to fluc- tuations in macroeconomic conditions in their country of origin. Using the German Socio- Economic Panel for the years 1984 to 2009 and macroeconomic variables for 24 countries of origin, we exploit...

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The Minimum Wage from a Two-Sided Perspective

Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective, in which firms' job offer and workers' job acceptance decisions are disentangled. Minimum wages reduce job offer incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that...

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