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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 … incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that sufficiently low minimum wages may do no harm to employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011103270
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The Role of Labor Market Institutions in the Great Recession
Boysen-Hogrefe, Jens; Groll, Dominik; Lechthaler, Wolfgang - In: Applied Economics Quarterly (formerly: Konjunkturpolitik) 61 (2010) Supplement, pp. 65-88
The recent Great Recession had very heterogeneous effects on the labor market outcomes in industrialized countries. We analyze the role of three labor market institutions in this context, namely the level of firing costs, the existence of short-time work and the wage formation process. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008784869
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The minimum wage from a two-sided perspective
Brown, Alessio J.G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - In: Economics Letters 124 (2014) 3, pp. 389-391
This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective … incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that sufficiently low minimum wages may do no harm to employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010930730
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An Incentive Theory of Matching
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010
This paper examines the labour market matching process by distinguishing its two component stages: the contact stage, in which job searchers make contact with employers and the selection stage, in which they decide whether to match. We construct a theoretical model explaining two-sided selection...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010955922
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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 … incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that sufficiently low minimum wages may do no harm to employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877633
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The Minimum Wage from a Two-Sided Perspective
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014
This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective … incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that sufficiently low minimum wages may do no harm to employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010887014
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Comparing the effectiveness of employment subsidies
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - 2010
This paper provides a theoretical and quantitative analysis of various types of wellknown employment subsidies. Two … important questions are addressed: (i) How should employment subsidies be targeted? (ii) How large should the subsidies be? We …) improve employment and welfare, (b) do not raise earnings inequality and (c) are self-financing. This criterion enables us to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011453727
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The minimum wage from a two-sided perspective
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - 2014
This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective … incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that sufficiently low minimum wages may do no harm to employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332009
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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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Comparing the effectiveness of employment subsidies
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - 2007
This paper analyses theoretically and empirically how employment subsidies should be targeted. We contrast measures … efficiency (AWE). Thereby we can identify policies that (a) improve employment and welfare, (b) do not raise earnings inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277966