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theoretical results are mixed. There is no unique connection between unemployment and minimum wages, and the effect can be … generally leads to an increase in unemployment as well. In this case, a social planner faces a trade off between redistribution … of rents and unemployment. …
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This paper studies the nature of business cycle variation in individual earnings risk using a dataset from the U.S. Social Security Administration, which contains (uncapped) earnings histories for millions of anonymous individuals. The base sample is a nationally representative panel containing...
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What is the nature of labor income risk facing households? We answer this question using detailed administrative data on household earnings from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service. By analyzing total household labor earnings as well as each member's earnings, we offer several new findings. One,...
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theoretical results are mixed. There is no unique connection between unemployment and minimum wages, and the effect can be … generally leads to an increase in unemployment as well. In this case, a social planner faces a trade off between redistribution … of rents and unemployment." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en)) …
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theoretical results are mixed. There is no unique connection between unemployment and minimum wages, and the effect can be … generally leads to an increase in unemployment as well. In this case, a social planner faces a trade off between redistribution … of rents and unemployment." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en)) …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010732110
longer employment and unemployment spells, they must contend with lower earnings than tenants upon reemployment. They also …
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This paper draws on household survey data from countries of all income levels to measure how average unemployment rates … vary with income per capita. We document that unemployment is increasing with GDP per capita. Furthermore, we show that … this fact is accounted for almost entirely by low-educated workers, whose unemployment rates are strongly increasing in GDP …
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unemployment rates. But scant, if any, evidence exists on gender gaps in economic outcomes such as income, expenditure, savings …
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We show that a stronger earnings relationship of unemployment compensation reduces wages and increases employment in an …-manufacturing wages and a 7.3% reduction in unemployment. …
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unemployment. These results survive several robustness checks. The differing results concerning the roles of income and education …
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