Die vorliegende Dissertation leistet einen Beitrag zur gegenwärtigen Diskussion um nach unten starre Nominallöhne. Die Arbeit besteht aus drei eigenständigen Aufsätzen. Der erste Aufsatz, Ausmaß und reale Konsequenzen nach unten starrer Nominallöhne: Eine Untersuchung für den deutschen...

This thesis examines a number of issues regarding the Mortensen-Pissarides search and matching model’s empirical performance. Chapter 1 documents the volatility puzzle with the Canadian data. The combined data from both Canada and the United States present an additional difficulty. Even if the...

Unemployment in France rose steadily from the early-seventies to the mid-eighties. Since the mid-eighties it has continued to experience fluctuations around a very high average level. Equilibrium unemployment theories are a useful framework within which to account for these developments. A...

In this paper we analyse the role that Social Security wealth and incentives play in the transition to retirement in Spain. We use the labour records and other relevant information contained in a newly released database [Muestra Continua de Vidas Laborales (2006)] to construct incentive measures...

En este trabajo se estima el efecto agregado de shocks a transferencias de renta gubernamentales para una muestra de países de la UE. La nueva medida de shocks a las transferencias utiliza una base de datos elaborada por expertos en finanzas públicas del Sistema Europeo de Bancos Centrales...

Based on the assumption that the interest rate is constant, the unemployment insurance risk model for migrant workers is established. The premium income and the expense of this risk model are compound Poisson process. Among them, the premium of an insurance policy and the claim amount of...

This paper examines the effect of the Worker Profiling and Reemployment Services (WPRS) system. This program "profiles" UI claimants to determine their probability of benefit exhaustion (or expected spell duration) and then provides mandatory employment and training services to claimants with...

This paper considers the use of statistical profiling to allocate persons to alternative options within government programs, or to participation or non-participation in programs. Profiling has been used in the United States to allocate unemployment insurance (UI) claimants to reemployment...

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Rochester. Dept. of Economics, 2008.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Rochester. Dept. of Economics, 2008.