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Gorry, Aspen - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

workers lose their jobs. By introducing minimum wages, the model explains empirical findings on the effects of minimum wage … laws. In addition, the model shows that minimum wages can account for about half of the differences in youth employment …

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Schooling Supply and the Structure of Production: Evidence from US States 1950–1990

Ciccone, Antonio; Peri, Giovanni - Economics and Research Department, Asian Development Bank - 2013

We find that over the period 1950–1990, states in United States absorbed increases in the supply of schooling due to tighter compulsory schooling and child labor laws mostly through within-industry increases in the schooling intensity of production. Shifts in the industry composition towards...

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Inefficient Equilibrium Unemployment in a Duocentric Economy with Matching Frictions

Lehmann, Etienne; Montero Ledezma, Paola L.; Van der … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

workers distributed between them. We introduce commuting costs and search-matching frictions to deal with the spatial mismatch … changes in the workforce distribution have non-negligible effects on unemployment rates, wages and net output. …

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Inefficient equilibrium unemployment in a duocentric economy with matching frictions

LEHMANN, Etienne; LEDEZMA, Paola L. MONTERO; LINDEN, … - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2013

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Job Search and Earnings Mobility

Turchick, David - Departamento de Economia, Faculdade de Economia, … - 2014

dynamic model in [Acemoglu, D., 1999. Changes in unemployment and wage inequality: an alternative theory and some evidence …

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Has the income share of the middle and upper-middle been stable over time, or is its current homogeneity across the world the outcome of a process of convergence? The 'Palma Ratio'...

Palma, José Gabriel - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2014

In an article published in Development and Change in 2011, I suggested an alternative measure of inequality to the Gini - a "19th Century statistic" - which has subsequently become known as the ´Palma Ratio'. In this new article, I revisit the argument for such a measure. Using new data, I...

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