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Product market reforms, labour market institutions and unemployment
Griffith, Rachel; Harrison, Rupert; Macartney, Gareth - 2006
We analyze the impact of product market competition on unemployment and wages, and how this depends on labour market institutions. We use differential changes in regulations across OECD countries over the 1980s and 1990s to identify the effects of competition. We find that increased product...
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The Employment Consequences of Seniority Wages
Zwick, Thomas - 2008
This paper combines two strains of the literature on the employment effects of deferred compensation. The first strain separates seniority and job matching wage effects on the basis of individual data, but cannot look at employment consequences. The second strain explains the employment...
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Finance and welfare states in globalizing markets
Bertola, Giuseppe - 2007
It is theoretically clear and may be verified empirically that efficient financial markets can make it less necessary for policy to try and offset the welfare effects of labour income risk and unequal consumption dynamics. The literature has also pointed out that, since international competition...
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Unemployment benefits as a search subsidy: New evidence on duration and wage effects of unemployment insurance
Gangl, Markus - 2002
Arbeitslosigkeit. Indem die Anspruchslöhne der Arbeitslosen erhöht werden, sollte die Arbeitslosenversicherung sowohl zu einer … anderen empirischen Studien, die nur den negativen Effekt der Dauer der Arbeitslosigkeit betrachten, werden im vorliegenden DP … Bereich der Lohnveränderungsverteilung nachweisen. Auf Kosten einer geringen Verlängerung der Dauer von Arbeitslosigkeit …
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Labour market policy in transition: trends and effectiveness in the Federal Republic of Germany
Schmid, Günther - 1988
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Labor taxes, wage setting and the relative wage effect
Brunello, Giorgio; Parisi, Maria Luisa; Sonedda, Daniela - 2002
Public finance solutions to high unemployment in Europe have often been advocated during the past years. With unemployment concentrated among the young and unskilled, it has been suggested that the reduction of social security contributions for low wage earnings, financed by a carbon tax, could...
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Auf der Suche nach der verlorenen Zeit
Hildebrandt, Eckart - In: Uni-Journal: Deutschlands größtes Magazin für Studenten (1983) 5, pp. 4-8
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Sources of equality and inequality: Wages, jobs, households and redistribution
Kenworthy, Lane - 2008
What are the principal sources of posttax-posttransfer inequality in affluent countries? To what extent do inequality of individual earnings, inequality of market household incomes, redistribution, and other factors influence the posttaxposttransfer income distribution? And what do the answers...
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Unemployment, labor market training programs and regional wages: An extended wage curve approach
Pannenberg, Markus; Schwarze, Johannes - 1996
One common feature of all empirical wage curve studies is the underlying assumption that the unemployment rate is the natural indicator of labor market tightness. However, we observe that in many European countries governments spend remarkable amounts on labor market training programs. As...
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The Incidence and Cost of Job Loss in the Ukrainian Labor Market
Lehmann, Hartmut; Pignatti, Norberto; Wadsworth, Jonathan - 2005
We examine the effects of economic transition on the pattern and costs of worker displacement in Ukraine, using the Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (ULMS) for the years 1992 to 2002. Displacement rates in the Ukrainian labor market average between 3.4 and 4.8 percent of employment,...
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