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Worker identity, employment fluctuations and stabilization policy
Snower, Dennis J.; Lechthaler, Wolfgang - 2013
This paper provides a model of "social hysteresis" whereby long, deep recessions demotivate workers and thereby lead them to change their work ethic. In switching from a pro-work to an anti-work identity, their incentives to seek and retain work fall and consequently their employment chances...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009752694
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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 … equilibrating mechanisms to ensure unemployment invariance and that other markets may perform part of the equilibrating process as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011412072
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On the interplay between Keynesian and supply side economics
Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis J. - 2007
largely unexplored, set of determinants of the effectiveness of Keynesian and supply-side economic policies. -- unemployment … ; employment ; wage setting ; labour force participation ; labour market dynamics ; unemployment persistence ; imperfect … unemployment responsiveness …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009736646
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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 employees (entrants) receive their reservation wages....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411604
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On-the-job training and the effects of insider power
Díaz-Vázquez, Pilar; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002
Suppose insiders use their market power to push up their wages, while entrants receive their reservation wages. How will employment be affected? In addressing this question, we focus on the role of on-the-job training. We show that an insider wage hike reduces recession-time employment but, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011413583
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Quadratic labor adjustment costs, business cycle dynamics and optimal monetary policy
Lechthaler, Wolfgang; Snower, Dennis J. - 2011 - revised January 2011
We build quadratic labor adjustment costs into an otherwise standard New-Keynesian model of the business cycle and show that this increases output persistence in a similar vein as other models of labor market frictions. Furthermore, it is demonstrated that quadratic labor adjustment costs imply...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452084
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A theory of wage adjustment under loss aversion
Ahrens, Steffen; Pirschel, Inske; Snower, Dennis J. - 2014
We present a new theory of wage adjustment, based on worker loss aversion. In line with prospect theory, the workers' perceived utility losses from wage decreases are weighted more heavily than the perceived utility gains from wage increases of equal magnitude. Wage changes are evaluated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010440552
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A theory of wage adjustment under loss aversion
Ahrens, Steffen; Pirschel, Inske; Snower, Dennis J. - 2014
We present a new theory of wage adjustment, based on worker loss aversion. In line with prospect theory, the workers' perceived utility losses from wage decreases are weighted more heavily than the perceived utility gains from wage increases of equal magnitude. Wage changes are evaluated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010457894
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A theory of wage adjustment under loss aversion
Ahrens, Steffen; Pirschel, Inske; Snower, Dennis J. - 2014
We present a new theory of wage adjustment, based on worker loss aversion. In line with prospect theory, the workers' perceived utility losses from wage decreases are weighted more heavily than the perceived utility gains from wage increases of equal magnitude. Wage changes are evaluated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010465159
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An incentive theory of matching
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - 2009
empirical regularities that the conventional matching model cannot. -- Matching ; incentives ; adjustment costs ; unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003827234