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increased flow into unemployment in a recession is mainly due to reduced hirings, and hence lower job-to-job transitions, rather …
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This paper studies optimal taxation schemes for education in a search-matching model where the labor market is divided between a high-skill and a low-skill sector. Two public policy targets - maximizing the global employment level and optimizing the social surplus - are studied according to...
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unemployment rate) and the labor force participation rate. This paper proposes an adjustment to the calculation of the EPOP using …
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unemployment rate) and the labor force participation rate. This paper proposes an adjustment to the calculation of the EPOP using …
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The paper presents a model that allows a unified analysis of sickness absence and search unemployment. Sickness appears … affect individual decisions on absence and search and the implications for employment, unemployment and nonparticipation. The …
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Whereas the standard modern theories of unemployment were developed in the context of a single sector labour market … economies are discussed. It is shown that dual labour market theory is an important contribution to understanding unemployment …
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The paper presents a model that allows a unified analysis of sickness absence and search unemployment. Sickness appears … benefits affect individual decisions on absence and search and the implications for employment, unemployment and …
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This paper provides a critique of the ?unemployment invariance hypothesis,? according to which the behavior of the … labor market ensures that the long-run unemployment rate is independent of the size of the capital stock, productivity, and … equilibrating mechanisms to ensure unemployment invariance and that other markets may perform part of the equilibrating process as …
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This paper examines the interactions between employment and training policies. Their effectiveness in stimulating income may be interdependent for various important reasons. For example, the more employment policies stimulate the employment rate, the greater the length of time over which workers...
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This paper provides a critique of the "unemployment invariance hypothesis", according to which the behavior of the … labor market ensures that the long-run unemployment rate is independent of the size of the capital stock, productivity and … the equilibrating mechanisms to ensure unemployment invariance; in particular, other markets may perform part of the …
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