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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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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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der Arbeitslosigkeit zur Folge hat. -- search friction ; labor market transitions ; wages …
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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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The U.S. economy continues to be characterized by a persistently-high rate of unemployment, with at least another three … years before attainment of the pre-recession unemployment rate.Six significant structural trends are identified and their … force”. And the detrimental effect of long-term unemployment is a structural impediment to becoming well-positioned to …
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Using a search model, I derive formula that links the welfare gains from the minimum wage to its effect on low-skilled labor force participation and employment. This formula shows that the minimum wage is welfare improving if pushing the low-skilled labor market tightness downwards brings it...
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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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Using a search model, I derive formula that links the welfare gains from the minimum wage to its effect on low-skilled labor force participation and employment. This formula shows that the minimum wage is welfare improving if pushing the low-skilled labor market tightness downwards brings it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012929110
We present a structural framework for the evaluation of public policies intended to increase job search intensity. Most of the literature defines search intensity as a scalar that influences the arrival rate of job offers; here we treat it as the number of job applications that workers send out....
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unemployment, most research has focused on analyzing the effect of unemployment insurance (UI) policies on reemployment outcomes … benefit duration (PBD) within the German UI system, we find that longer PBD leads to longer actual unemployment duration for … for those individuals becoming re-employed. With increasing unemployment benefit duration, the founders’ outcomes in terms …
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