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Characteristics of unemployment dynamics: The chain reaction approach
Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis J. - 2000
The aim of this paper is to analyze and estimate salient characteristics of unemployment dynamics. Movements in unemployment are viewed as "chain reactions" of responses to labor market shocks, working their way through systems of interacting lagged adjustment processes. In the context of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273099
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An incentive theory of matching
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - 2009
This paper presents a theory explaining the labor market matching process through microeconomic incentives. There are heterogeneous variations in the characteristics of workers and jobs, and firms face adjustment costs in responding to these variations. Matches and separations are described...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277955
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An incentive theory of matching
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - 2009
This paper presents a theory explaining the labor market matching process through microeconomic incentives. There are heterogeneous variations in the characteristics of workers and jobs, and firms face adjustment costs in responding to these variations. Matches and separations are described...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278021
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Incentives and complementarities of flexicurity
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Snower, Dennis J. - 2009
full Danish flexicurity set of policies (low employment protection, high unemployment benefits and workfare). Our results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265238
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Restructuring production and work
Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - 1995
The paper analyzes the contemporary organizational restructuring of production and work and derives some salient implications for the labor market. The analysis focuses on the switch from occupational specialization at “Tayloristic” organizations to multi-tasking at “holistic”...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265287
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Centralized bargaining, multi-tasking and work incentives
Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - 1996
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265349
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Can insider power affect employment?
Díaz-Vázquez, Pilar; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002
Do firms reduce employment when their insiders (established, incumbent employees) claim higher wages? The conventional … answer in the theoretical literature is that insider power has no influence on employment, provided that the newly hired … firming in recessions, while leaving hiring in booms unchanged. Thereby insider power reduces average employment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265538
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Pension taxes versus early retirement rights
Orszag, Jonathan Michael; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002
provide employment vouchers for people of pensionable age. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265545
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Unemployment invariance
Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis J. - 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 the labor force. Using Solow growth and endogenous growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265548
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From unemployment benefits to unemployment accounts
Orszag, Jonathan Michael; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002
We explore the implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by unemployment accounts (UA). Under the UA system, employed people would be required to make ongoing contributions to their unemployment accounts, and the balances in these accounts would then be available to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265555