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for immigrants than for natives: a one percentage point increase in the unemployment rate is associated with a 0.61 and 0 …
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they joined the establishment from unemployment This is supportive of equal treatment. We also show that a four parameter … series properties and co-properties of real wages, output, and unemployment, in particular the asymmetric response of wages …
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unemployment was relatively slow with respect to sustained economic growth. Following Holden and Wulfsberg (2009), we compute a … connection to the wage bargaining system. Amid the absence of effective labor market institutions to make rigidities less …
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In employment relationships, a wage is an installment payment on an implicit long-term agreement between a worker and a firm. The price of labor that impacts firm's hiring decisions, instead, reflects the hiring wage as well as the impact of economic conditions at the time of hiring on future...
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This paper presents a model in which firms recruit both unemployed and employed workers by posting vacancies. Firms act monopsonistically and set wages to retain their existing workers as well as to attract new ones. The model differs from Burdett and Mortensen (1998) in that its assumptions...
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find that an increase in the unemployment rate of one percentage point decreases the real wages of job entries within given … rigidity in the Mortensen-Pissarides model in order to amplify realistic volatility of unemployment is not supported by the … unemployment. -- real wage cyclicality ; entry wages ; search and matching model …
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; equilibrium unemployment ; inflation target ; Phillips curve ; Lucas critique ; Germany …
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unemployment is very close to zero when unemployment is above its long term average but large and highly significant when below. We … unemployment. It cannot however match the persistence of the German unemployment rate. We conjecture that extending the model to …
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The literature on unemployment has mostly focused on labor market issues while the impact of capital formation is …
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In this paper we analyze the sources of German unemployment within a structural vector error correction model (SVECM …, productivity and unemployment which is interpreted as a wage setting relation. From a Subset VECM we identify meaningful structural … shocks and assess their importance for unemployment by impulse response analysis and forecast error variance decompositions …
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