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Unemployment fluctuation with staggered Nash wage bargaining
Gertler, Mark; Trigari, Antonella - 2006
A number of authors have recently emphasized that the conventional model of unemployment dynamics due to Mortensen and …
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Youth unemployment in Greece: Measuring the challenge
Bell, David N. F.; Blanchflower, David G. - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 4 (2015) 1, pp. 1-25
A historically high level of youth unemployment presents Greece with a huge social and economic challenge. This paper …
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The minimum wage from a two-sided perspective
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - 2014
This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective, in which firms' job offer and workers' job acceptance decisions are disentangled. Minimum wages reduce job offer incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that...
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Job vacancies in Colombia: 1976-2012
Álvarez, Andrés; Hofstetter, Marc - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 3 (2014), pp. 1-11
between vacancies and unemployment with a structural change-an outward shift-around 1986. …
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Macroeconomic implications of downward wage rigidities
Abbritti, Mirko; Fahr, Stephan - 2011
Growth of wages, unemployment, employment and vacancies exhibit strong asymmetries between expansionary and …
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The performance of immigrants in the German labor market
Beyer, Robert - 2016
This paper uses a large survey (SOEP) to update and deepen our knowledge about the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. It documents that immigrant workers initially earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for...
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Comparabilidad y ajustes metodológicos de las estadísticas laborales: El caso de la tasa de desempleo en Ecuador
Castillo, José Gabriel; Salas, Carla María - In: Estudios de Economía 45 (2018) 1, pp. 113-145
from household surveys. We analyze the case of the national unemployment rate for Ecuador; assess the potential …
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Regional Disparities of the European Union Labor Markets
Diaconu, Laura - In: CES Working Papers 6 (2014) 2, pp. 57-67
The regional unemployment disparities are a common feature of the labor market in many EU countries. Nowadays, not only …, even if the regional disparities in employment and unemployment in EU states have diminished at the beginning of the XXIst … causes that determined the regional unemployment disparities in EU might be the level and the power of unions, the labor …
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Environment, Health and Labor Market
Pautrel, Xavier - 2017
We re-examine the impact of environmental taxation on health and output, in the presence of labor market frictions. Our main findings are that matching process and wage bargaining introduce new channels of transmission of environmental taxation on the economy such that assuming perfect labor...
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A DSGE Model of Slovakia with Frictional Labor Market and Monetary Regime Switch
Pápai, Adam - In: Review of Economic Perspectives 17 (2017) 3, pp. 287-313
The aim of this paper is to examine the dynamical and structural characteristics of Slovakia using a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model augmented with search and matching mechanisms and other forms of frictions. I implement a switching mechanism to account for the monetary regime...
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