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Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - 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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Unemployment in the European Union: A dynamic reappraisal

Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Héctor; Snower, Dennis J. - In: Economic modelling 20 (2003) 2, pp. 237-273

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...

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Can insider power affect employment?

Díaz-Vázquez, Pilar; Snower, Dennis J. - In: German economic review 4 (2003) 2, pp. 139-150

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. …

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Reorganization of firms and labor market inequality

Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - 1995

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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 …

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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”...

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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...

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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

Pension taxes versus early retirement rights

Orszag, Jonathan Michael; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002

provide employment vouchers for people of pensionable age. …

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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...

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