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Simultaneous Search and Network Efficiency
Gautier, Pieter A.; Holzner, Christian - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
When workers send applications to vacancies they create a network. Frictions arise becauseworkers typically do not know where other workers apply to and firms do not know whichcandidates other firms consider. The first coordination friction affects network formation, whilethe second coordination...
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Interactions between Private and Public Sector Wages
Afonso, António; Gomes, Pedro - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010
We examine the interactions between public and private sector wages per employee inOECD countries. The growth of public sector wages and of public sector employmentpositively affects the growth of private sector wages. Moreover, total factor productivity, theunemployment rate and the degree of...
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Real Wages and the Business Cycle:Accounting for Worker and Firm Heterogeneity
Carneiro, Anabela; Guimarães, Paulo; Portugal, Pedro - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009
wages. A one-point increase in the unemployment rate decreases wages ofnewly hired male workers by around 2.8% and by just 1 …
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Dismissals for Cause:The Difference That Just Eight Paragraphs Can Make
Martins, Pedro S. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper provides evidence about the effects of dismissals-for-cause requirements, aspecific component of employment protection legislation that has received little attentiondespite its potential relevance. We study a quasi-natural experiment generated by a lawintroduced in Portugal in 1989:...
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The Turkish Wage Curve:Evidence from the Household Labor Force Survey
Baltagi, Badi H.; Baskaya, Yusuf Soner; Hulagu, Timur - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
26 NUTS-2 regions over the period 2005-2008.When the local unemployment rate is treated as predetermined, there is … instrument for current unemployment rate, we find anunemployment elasticity of -0.099. We also find a higher elasticity for … finding is that the wages of females in Turkey are significantlymore responsive to local unemployment rates than their male …
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New Insights on Unemployment Duration andPost Unemployment Earnings in Germany:Censored Box-Cox Quantile Regression at Work
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Wilke, Ralf A. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
periods and the size of unemployment benefits on unemploymentdurations and post-unemployment earnings in West Germany... …
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Are Shirking and Leisure Substitutable?An Empirical Test of Efficiency WagesBased on Urban Economic Theory
Ross, Stephen L.; Zenou, Yves - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Recent theoretical work has examined the spatial distribution of unemployment using theefficiency wage model as the … mechanism by which unemployment arises in the urbaneconomy. This paper extends the standard efficiency wage model in order to …
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Arbeitslosigkeit und Steuerpolitik
Kremer, Jana - Universität <Bamberg, 1979 -> / Lehrstuhl für … - 1999
Die Beschäftigungswirkungen von Steuersenkungen und Änderungen der Steuerprogressionwerden in Modellen mit Lohnverhandlungen und Effizienzlöhnen untersucht.Es zeigt sich, daß die betrachteten Standardmodelle die positiven Effekteeiner steileren Steuerprogression überzeichnen;...
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