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Unemployment Assistance and Transition to Employment in Argentina
Iturriza, Ana; Bedi, Arjun S.; Sparrow, Robert - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
´s institutional response to the increase in unemployment and poverty triggered by the crisis. The program provided a social safety net …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859542
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MODELING EMPLOYMENT DYNAMICS WITH STATEDEPENDENCE AND UNOBSERVED HETEROGENEITY
Prowse, Victoria - University <Oxford> / Department of Economics - 2007
This paper considers the problem of determining the extent of any state dependen-cies in women's labor supply behavior. Employment outcomes are modeled using adynamic multinomial choice framework including persistent unobserved heterogeneitywith a relatively general distribution. In order to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870143
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HUMAN CAPITAL INVESTMENT IN THE PRESENCE OF UNEMPLOYMENT:APPLICATION TO UNIVERSITY ENROLMENT IN SPAIN
Fernández, Rosa M.; Shioji, Etsuro - University <Oxford> / Department of Economics - 2001
This paper explores the effects of unemployment on the school enrolment decisions. A few studies that have taken up … enrolment decision that is capable of explaining these results in a unified manner. In this model, unemployment affects the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870257
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A Steady-State Model of a Non-Walrasian Economywith Three Imperfect Markets
Wasmer, Etienne - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
Unemployment may depend on equilibrium in other markets than the labor markets. Thispaper adresses this old idea by … financial frictions on equilibrium unemployment isamplified by goods market frictions and vice versa.... …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360514
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Trade and Unemployment:What Do the Data Say?
Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Prat, Julien; Schmerer, Hans-Jörg - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009
lower structural rate of unemployment. We establish this fact using:(i) panel data from 20 OECD countries, (ii) cross … within-country trade. Our main findingis robust to various definitions of unemployment rates and openness measures …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360638
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Preferences for Collective versus Individualised Wage Setting
Boeri, Tito; Burda, Michael C. - Sonderforschungsbereich Ökonomisches Risiko <Berlin> - 2008
Standard models of equilibrium unemployment assume exogenous labour market institutions and flexible wage determination …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005860575
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The Effect of Sanctions on the Job Finding Rate:Evidence from Denmark
Svarer, Michael - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper investigates the effect of sanctions of unemployment insurance benefits on theexit rate from unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862085
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Unemployment in East and West Europe
Münich, Daniel; Svejnar, Jan - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
unemployment in five former communist economies and inthe western part of Germany (a benchmark western economy) to examine the … evolution ofunemployment together with that of inflows into unemployment and vacancies...<br< …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005863008
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A New Regional Geography of Europe?The Labour Market Impact of the EU Enlargements
Caroleo, Floro Ernesto; Pastore, Francesco - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper provides a critical overview and a detailed research agenda for scholarsinterested in regional studies with a special focus on old and new European Union memberstates. The focus is on the microeconomic foundations of structural change and its spatiallyasymmetric impact on labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005863251
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Selective Hiring and Welfare Analysis in Labor Market Models
Merkl, Christian; Rens, Thijs van - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012
positivepredictions of the model change very little, but the welfare costs of unemployment are muchlarger because unemployment risk is … distributed unequally across workers. As a result,optimal unemployment insurance may be higher and welfare is lower if hiring is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009486873