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Regional hub port development: The case of Montevideo, Uruguay

Wilmsmeier, Gordon; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; … - 2010

shipping lines. The paper shows that despite strong efforts Uruguay and its principal port Montevideo are highly dependent on …This paper reflects on port development in Uruguay in an environment of trilateral interport competition. The regional … analysing the port system’s evolution. The case of Montevideo as the success or failure of a regional hub port development …

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Social Security, Unemployment, and Growth

Bräuninger, Michael - 2004

The paper develops an overlapping generations model that highlights interactions between social security, unemployment and growth. The social security system has two components: old age pensions and unemployment insurance. Pensions have a direct effect on economic growth. Both pensions and...

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Long-term unemployment, technical progress and capital mobility in an open growth-matching model

Birk, Angela - 2002

How does technical progress affect long-term unemployment in a small open economy? This relationship is evaluated in an open neoclassical growth model that is extended by a Pissarides-style labor market matching approach. In the general equilibrium model, the labor market of the three factor...

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Tax Progressivity and the Trade Union's Fallback-Option

Boeters, Stefan - 2002

When we analyse the labour market consequences of labour tax reforms in a model of firm-union wage bargaining, minor changes in the formulation of the union`s fallback option can have drastic effects. This paper compares two variants of the model in which either workers have no reemployment...

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Employment protection and temporary work agencies

Baumann, Florian; Mechtel, Mario; Stähler, Nikolai - 2008

Employers who use temporary agency staff in contrast to regular staff are not affected by employment protection regulations when terminating a job. Therefore, services provided by temporary work agencies may be seen as a substitute for regular employment. In this paper, we analyze the effects of...

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A hiring subsidy for long-term unemployed in a search model with PES and random search

Jahn, Elke J.; Wagner, Thomas - 2002

Our search model combines two search methods, the public employment service (PES) and random search. The separation rate is endogenous, the job matching process consists of three rounds. In the first and the second respectively the short-term (STU) and the long-term unemployed (LTU) randomly...

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Temporary work agencies and equilibrium unemployment

Neugart, Michael; Storrie, Donald - 2002

During the 1990s, temporary agency work has increased rapidly in most OECD countries. We augment the equilibrium unemployment model developed by Pissarides and Mortensen with temporary work agencies. Our model implies that technological improvements for placements and de-regulation of the sector...

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The equilibrium rate of unemployment in varying micro-institutional settings

Gatti, Donatella - 1998

A major issue in the current economic debate is related to the striking difference betweenEurope, Japan and US concerning the level and evolution of unemployment. This paperexplores the micro determinants of these observed stylized facts. In a first part, atheoretical framework is presented...

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Is perfection optimal? Employment and product market competition

Amable, Bruno; Gatti, Donatella - 2000

This paper proposes a model of efficiency wage with endogenous workers flows in interaction with imperfect competition on the product markets. Subject to economy-wide shocks, firms hire and fire workers thus generating a certain turnover. We show that the intensity of this turnover negatively...

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Endogenous skilled-biased technological change and matching unemployment

Stadler, Manfred; Wapler, Rüdiger - 2001

This paper presents a general-equilibrium model of endogenous skilled-biased technological change and matching unemployment in a disaggregated economy. We simultaneously endogenise both the direction and pace of technological change as well as the unemployment rates. We show that an increase in...

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