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regulatory conditions on immigrant-native gaps across four outcomes; unemployment, monthly earnings, underemployment, and … unemployment and underemployment. A higher union density appears to suppress wage differences across some immigrant groups, rather …
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renowned Danish miracle by evaluating their unemployment and inequality effects and their complementarities. We develop a … full Danish flexicurity set of policies (low employment protection, high unemployment benefits and workfare). Our results … show that implementing the Danish flexicurity concept in Germany would reduce unemployment and earnings inequality …
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Measures of individual happiness, or well-being, can guide labor market policies. Individual unemployment, as well as … the rate of unemployment in society, have a negative effect on happiness. In contrast, employment protection and … unemployment benefits can contribute to happiness - though when such policies prolong unemployment, the net effect on national …
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, it reduces unemployment by exerting downward pressure on wages. This trade-off is quantitatively assessed using a … bargaining and involuntary unemployment. In the simulations carried out using this model, the optimal degree of tax progressivity …
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, it reduces unemployment by exerting downward pressure on wages. This trade-off is quantitatively assessed using a … bargaining and involuntary unemployment. In the simulations carried out using this model, the optimal degree of tax progressivity … ; tax progressivity ; optimal taxation ; collective wage bargaining ; unemployment ; microsimulation ; computable general …
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, it reduces unemployment by exerting downward pressure on wages. This trade-off is quantitatively assessed using a … bargaining and involuntary unemployment. In the simulations carried out using this model, the optimal degree of tax progressivity …
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This paper asks whether part-time work makes women happy. Previous research on labour supply has assumed that as workers freely choose their optimal working hours on the basis of their innate preferences and the hourly wage rate, outcome reflects preference. This paper tests this assumption by...
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This paper makes two contributions to the empirical matching literature. First, a recent study by Anderson and Burgess (2000) testing for endogenous competition among job seekers in a matching frame-work, is replicated with a richer and more accurate data set for Germany. Their results are...
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with a permanent contract, this study compares temporary work to the alternative of unemployment. Specifically, this paper …
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employment and unemployment. The empirical analysis is based on propensity score matching methods, obtaining the effects of FTCs … by comparing the future situation of ("treated") unemployed entering into FTCs after a particular unemployment duration … persons entering into FTCs after a certain number of month of unemployment are reasonable. A first counterfactual is never to …
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