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High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population interms of reduced subjective well … individual panel data for Germany andrepeated cross-sectional data for the United States and the European Union show that … thesensitivity of subjective well-being to fluctuations in unemployment rates is much lower in thepublic sector than in the private …
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We use a novel approach to studying the heterogeneity in the job finding rates of the nonemployed by classifying the nonemployed by labor force status (LFS) histories, instead of using only one-month LFS. Job finding rates differ substantially across LFS histories: they are 25-30% among those...
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, in many African countries, unemployment rates are low and growth is seldom jobless. Regrettably, most of the poor work … long hours and cannot make ends meet while the violation of basic human rights is not uncommon. Again, youth unemployment …
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Why might there be a long-run trade-off between growth and unemployment? In general equilibrium, the returns on the … interest. If the wage grows in line with productivity, there is a positive relation between growth and unemployment. If the … incentive to hire. There emerges a trade-off between growth and unemployment. …
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In this paper we focus on the impact of involuntary unemployment on wage formation using experimental evidence. We use … twofold: on the one hand, we are interested in analyzing the relation between involuntary unemployment and wages; on the other … results show that unemployment has a negative impact on wages. Moreover, there is a positive correlation between wage and …
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This paper shows that, Rueff (1925, 1931) distinguished [a] a « permanent » unemployment due to excessive real wages … relative to the labor productivity, [b] a “temporary” unemployment due to a decline in the economic activity resulting from a … cyclic decrease of the price level, and [c] a « minimum » frictional unemployment prevailing in the normal functioning of the …
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We distinguish and assess three fundamental views of the labor market regarding the movements in unemployment: (i) the … that all the short-run fluctuations automatically turn into long-run changes in the unemployment rate. We assert the …
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This Paper analyses the evolution of quantitative measures of employee rents in Europe during the nineties, using the European Household Panel Survey. I look at two classes of measures: wage differentials between workers along industry and firm size dimensions; and estimated welfare differences...
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unemployment. We show that the socially efficient incentive power of the equilibrium wage contract is constrained in the absence of … unemployment benefits. We then apply the model to explain the recent increase in performance-pay contracts. Within our model, this … factors is an increase in the equilibrium unemployment rate. …
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A labour-matching economy with ex post heterogeneous firms is presented. When bargaining over the wage, firms and workers do not know the level of product demand. Once demand is realized, hours of work are chosen. We show that the existence of a legal workweek may enhance efficiency with respect...
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