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Wages, rents, unemployment, and the quality of life
Wrede, Matthias - 2013 - This version: March 2013
Combining a spatial equilibrium model with a search-matching unemployment model, this paper analyzes the willingness to … pay for regional amenities and the regional quality of life when wages, rents, and unemployment risk compensate for local … unemployment ratio decreases in response to an increase in the amenity level if the amenity is marginally more beneficial to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011560029
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Job matching on non separated occupational labour markets
Stops, Michael - 2011 - Preliminary and not completed version
This work refers to analyses of matching processes on occupational labour markets in Germany. Up to now, all studies in this field are based on the crucial assumption of separate occupational labour markets. I outlined some theoretical considerations that occupational markets are probably not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011548268
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A search and matching approach to business-cycle migration in the euro area
Clemens, Marius; Hart, Janine - 2019
Recently migration patterns in the euro area changed markedly in response to increasing unemployment disparities. This … business-cycle related fluctuations in net migration flows and the crucial role of unemployment and vacancies in shaping …-cycle migration. In this model unemployment arises from search and matching frictions. We endogenize migration via the unemployed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012317568
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The regional distribution of unemployment : a microeconomic perspective
López-Bazo, Enrique; Motellón, Elisabet - 2011 - (Preliminary version)
Regional disparities in unemployment rates are large and persistent, particularly in some economies such as Spain … some economic, demographic and environmental factors in explaining the gap between low and high unemployment regions. Most … regional differentials in unemployment rates by using the information from the Spanish wave of the Labour Force Survey. An …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011536889
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Marriage and divorce under labor market uncertainty
Holzner, Christian; Schulz, Bastian - 2019 - Preliminary version
partners in the marriage market and switch between employment and unemployment in the labor market. In the marriage market … labor market divorces triggered by unemployment has decreased significantly. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012304704
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Hartz IV and the decline of German unemployment : a macroeconomic evaluation
Hochmuth, Brigitte; Kohlbrecher, Britta; Merkl, Christian; … - 2019
reduced the generosity of long-term unemployment benefits. We use a model with different unemployment durations, where the … the existing disagreement in the macroeconomic literature on the unemployment effects of Hartz IV. We find that Hartz IV … was a major driver for the decline of Germany’s unemployment and that partial and equilibrium effect where of equal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012268834
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A joint theory of polarization and deunionization
Foll, Tobias; Hartmann, Anna - 2019
Over the past 50 years, the U.S. and several European labor markets have undergone two most incisive developments: job market polarization and deunionization. In this paper, we argue that routine-biased technical change is not only the driving force behind polarization, as prevalently assumed,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012286315
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Social optimum in a model with hierarchical firms and endogenous promotion time
Mitkova, Mariya Valeriy - 2020
This paper develops a search and matching model with hierarchical firms, human capital accumulation, internal promotions and on-the-job search. At the time of their market entry firms maximize present value of profits with respect to their promotion rule. Workers who are eligible for promotion...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012431179
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The role of incomplete information in shaping policy effects : evidence from unemployment insurance
Arni, Patrick; Liu, Xingfei - 2020
different large-scale quasi-experiments on changing potential benefit duration (PBD) in unemployment insurance (UI). Thereby, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012436245
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Modelling migration and regional labour markets : an application of the new economic geography model RHOMOLOI
Brandsma, Andries; Kancs, D'Artis; Persyn, Damiaan - 2013
unemployment, and interregional labour migration. The RHOMOLO model is parameterised by estimating the key structural parameters … assess the impact on regional labour markets. Our results confirm that wages and unemployment are by far the most important …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011581448