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The organizational revolution and its implications for job creation
Snower, Dennis J. - In: Job creation : the role of labor market institutions, (pp. 49-70). 1998
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001302736
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On the interplay between Keynesian and supply side economics
Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis J. - 2007
; employment ; wage setting ; labour force participation ; labour market dynamics ; unemployment persistence ; imperfect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009736646
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On the interplay between Keynesian and supply side economics
Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis J. - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003474033
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Unemployment Invariance
Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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/10005822664
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Centralized Bargaining, Multi-Tasking, and Work Incentives
Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012
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...
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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 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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Unemployment in the European Union: A dynamic reappraisal
Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Héctor; Snower, Dennis J. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2003
This paper examines the movements in EU unemployment from two perspectives: (a) the NRU/NAIRU perspective, in which unemployment movements are attributed largely to changes in the long-run equilibrium unemployment rate and (b) the chain-reaction perspective, in which unemployment movements are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010955891
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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...
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Can insider power affect employment?
Díaz-Vázquez, Pilar; Snower, Dennis J. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2003
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 … firing in recessions, while leaving hiring in booms unchanged. Thereby insider power reduces average employment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010983128