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Internal devaluation and labor market outcomes : evidence from Latvia
Lehmann, Hartmut; Razzolini, Tiziano; Zaiceva, Anzelika - 2017
unemployment. Underemployment constitutes another important adjustment channel, while the evidence for informal employment is more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011674485
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010238837
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369825
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Search, flows, job creations and destructions
Cahuc, Pierre - 2014
models have deeply renewed the understanding of job search, job flows, job creations and destructions, unemployment and wage … optimal level of unemployment benefits, the funding of unemployment insurance and the impact of employment protection …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010355704
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Beyond Cobb-Douglas: flexibly estimating matching functions with unobserved matching efficiency
Lange, Fabian; Papageorgiou, Theodore - 2020
the empirical literature estimating the matching function, commonly used to map unemployment and vacancies into hires …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012206513
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Matching efficiency and heterogeneous workers in the UK
Lisauskaitė, Elena - 2022
The matching efficiency of the standard matching function is known to follow a pro-cyclical pattern. An observed rightward shift in the UK's Beveridge Curve after the Great Recession, suggests a decrease in the matching efficiency between vacancies and unemployed workers. This paper studies the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013414379
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Mismatch unemployment : evidence from Germany, 2000 - 2010
Bauer, Anja - 2013
suggest that regional mismatch did not play an important role in explaining movements of aggregate unemployment. Across … industries and occupations, there was a decrease in mismatch unemployment from over 5 percent to below 4 percent (on the highest … disaggregation level), whereas the share of mismatch unemployment (across industries and occupations) within total unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009788092
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Great expectations: Past wages and unemployment durations
Böheim, Renè; Horvath, Gerard Thomas; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - In: Labour Economics 18 (2011) 6, pp. 778-785
overly long unemployment durations. We examine the influence of previous wages on unemployment durations for workers after …
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Employed and unemployed search : the marginal willingness to pay for attributes in Lithuania, the US and the Netherlands
Ommeren, Jos van; Hazans, Mihails - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001781253
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Wages and Informality in Developing Countries
Meghir, Costas; Narita, Renata; Robin, Jean-Marc - Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University - 2012
It is often argued that informal labor markets in developing countries promote growth by reducing the impact of regulation. On the other hand informality may reduce the amount of social protection offered to workers. We extend the wage-posting framework of Burdett and Mortensen (1998) to allow...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011253051