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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 …

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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...

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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 …

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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. …

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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 …

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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,...

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A beveridge curve decomposition for Austria : what drives the unemployment rate?

Christl, Michael - 2019

the Beveridge curve in Austria. We find empirical evidence to confirm that the increase in the unemployment rate in …

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Fighting persistent regional unemployment : the Paltamo Full Employment experiment

Hämäläinen, Kari; Hamalainen, Ulla - 2012

persistent unemployment in contracting regions. The basic idea behind the experiment is to collect all unemployment related … lower the unemployment rate in Paltamo by almost 10 percentage points in just two years time during an era of global … financial crisis. The costs of this remarkable drop in unemployment were 3.4 million Euros in 2010. The results show that one …

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The accessibility to Employment Offices in the Spainish labour market

Suárez, Patricia; Mayor, Matías; Cueto, Begoña - 2010

The paper uses the theoretical framework of the Spatial Economics to analyze (1) the regional unemployment disparities … opportunities therefore reduce local unemployment. We estimate a spatial panel model in order to explain the unemployment …

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The value of public service broadcasting in Japan : the life satisfaction approach

Okuyama, Naoko - 2017

Evaluation of amenities and benefits of public service broadcasting is crucially important with the accelerated convergence of broadcasting and telecommunications and the increasing heterogeneities of media use by individuals. With the use of the microdata provided from a survey carried out by...

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