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Employment Protection and Capital-Labor Ratios
Janiak, Alexandre; Wasmer, Etienne - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Employment protection (EPL) has a well known negative impact on labor flows as well as an ambiguous but often negative effect on employment. In contrast, its impact on capital accumulation and capital-labor ratio is less well understood. The available empirical evidence suggests a non-monotonic...
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Macroeconomic Fluctuations and the Timing of Labour Market Reforms
Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
In this Paper, I analyse the pros and cons of implementing structural reforms of the labour market in booms versus recessions, in light of considerations of social efficiency, political viability, and macroeconomic fine-tuning. While the optimal timing of a reform depends on the relative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504569
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Intensive Margin and Extensive Margin Adjustments of Labor Market : Turkey versus United States
Taskin, Temel - Türkiye Cumhuriyet Merkez Bankası - 2013
In this paper, we document the intensive and extensive margin adjustments of labor market in Turkey and US.We find that both margins are important. More interestingly, the weight of intensive margin adjustment is substantially smaller than that of the extensive margin in both countries. This is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010941474
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Employment Regulation and Labor Market Policy in Germany, 1991-2005
Ebbinghaus, Bernhard; Eichhorst, Werner - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
structures of both employment and unemployment complements this study. …
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Discrimination and Employment Protection
Holden, Steinar; Rosén, Åsa - Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo - 2009
We study a search model with employment protection legislation. We show that if the output from the match is uncertain ex ante, there may exist a discriminatory equilibrium where workers with the same productive characteristics are subject to different hiring standards. If a bad match takes...
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Education and employment protection
Charlot, Olivier; Malherbet, Franck - In: Labour Economics 20 (2013) C, pp. 3-23
more flexible short-term contracts affects the return to schooling, equilibrium unemployment and welfare. In this context …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010617138
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Employment Protection Reform in Search Economies
L'Haridon, Olivier; Malherbet, Franck - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
contours of the EPL reform. In this article we used an equilibrium unemployment model to investigate the virtue of an EPL … rating is desirable, not only as a part of unemployment compensation finance as most studies acknowledge but also as part and …
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Migration of international students and mobilizing skills in the MENA Region
Nour S. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2014
This paper uses both the descriptive and comparative approaches to provide an overview of migration of international students from the Middle East and North Africa MENA region and mobilizing skills in the MENA Region. We fill the gap in the MENA literature and present a more comprehensive and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856439
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Modelling the behaviour of unemployment rates in the US over time and across space
Holmes, Mark J.; Otero, Jesus; Panagiotidis, Theodore - İktisat Bölümü, İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi - 2013
Abstract This paper provides evidence that unemployment rates across US states are stationary and therefore behave … adjustment associated with unemployment shocks. A highly-dimensional VAR analysis of the half-lives associated with shocks to … unemployment rates in pairs of states suggests that distance between states and vacancy rates respectively exert a positive and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010859356
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The Minimum Wage from a Two-Sided Perspective
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis - CESifo - 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...
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