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The Relationship between the Indivisibility of Labor, the Wage Equation and the Hazard Rate of Unemployment
Das, Dipankar; Mukherjee, Shrabana - 2021
The paper attempts to build a wage equation, bringing in the concept of indivisibility of labor, and aims at finding out how complete wage equation reduces the immediate unemployment rate or the hazard rate of unemployment.This paper formally derives the standard wage equation considering all...
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Strategic outsourcing, profit sharing and equilibrium unemployment
Koskela, Erkki; König, Jan - 2007
We analyze the following questions associated with outsourcing and profit sharing under imperfect labour markets. How does strategic outsourcing influence wage formation, profit sharing and employee effort when firms commit to optimal profit sharing before wage formation or decide for profit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264267
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Flexible outsourcing, profit sharing and equilibrium unemployment
Koskela, Erkki; König, Jan - 2008
We analyze the questions associated with flexible outsourcing both with committed and flexible profit sharing under imperfect domestic labour markets. How does profit sharing influence flexible outsourcing? What is the relationship between outsourcing cost, profit sharing and equilibrium...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264425
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Strategic Outsourcing, Profit Sharing and Equilibrium Unemployment
Koskela, Erkki; Koenig, Jan - 2021
We analyze the following questions associated with outsourcing and profit sharing under imperfect labour markets. How does strategic outsourcing influence wage formation, profit sharing and employee effort when firms commit to optimal profit sharing before wage formation or decide for profit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316651
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Strategic Outsourcing, Profit Sharing and Equilibrium Unemployment
Koskela, Erkki; Koenig, Jan - 2021
We analyze the following questions associated with outsourcing and profit sharing under imperfect labour markets. How does strategic outsourcing influence wage formation, profit sharing and employee effort when firms commit to optimal profit sharing before wage formation or decide for profit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324831
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The Simple Economics of Benefit Transfers
Snower, Dennis J. - 2006
The paper examines the employment and unemployment implications of permitting unemployed people to use part of their … unemployment benefits to provide employment vouchers to the firms that hire them. This opportunity to transfer unemployment … benefits into employment subsidies--quot;benefit transfersquot; for short--would help replace the unemployment trap by an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012781941
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The macroeconomics of automation : data, theory, and policy analysis
Jaimovich, Nir; Saporta-Eksten, Itay; Siu, Henry E.; … - 2020
of routine employment and its consequent impacts on inequality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012161124
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Downskilling : changes in employer skill requirements over the business cycle
Sasser, Alicia; Shoag, Daniel W.; Ballance, Joshua - 2016 - This version: July 2016
Using a novel database of 82.5 million online job postings, we show that employer skill requirements fell as the labor market improved from 2010 to 2014. We find that a 1 percentage point reduction in the local unemployment rate is associated with a roughly 0.27 percentage point reduction in the...
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No longer qualified? : changes in the supply and demand for skills within occupations
Burke, Mary A.; Sasser, Alicia; Sadighi, Shahriar; … - 2020 - This version: October 2019
Using a novel database of 159 million online job postings, we examine changes in employer skill requirements for education and specific skillsets between 2007 and 2017. We find that upskilling - in terms of increasing demands for bachelor's degrees as well as software skills - was a persistent...
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No longer qualified? : changes in the supply and demand for skills within occupations
Sasser, Alicia; Burke, Mary A.; Sadighi, Shahriar; … - 2023
Although labor market "mismatch" often refers to an imbalances in supply and demand across occupations, mismatch within occupations can arise if skill requirements are changing over time, potentially reducing aggregate matching efficiency within the labor market. To test this, we examine changes...
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