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additional leisure and personal maintenance, not in increased household production. There is no relation between unemployment … lower amount of market work in areas of long-term high unemployment is offset by additional household production. In … contrast, in those areas where unemployment has risen cyclically reduced market work is made up almost entirely by additional …
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additional leisure and personal maintenance, not in increased household production. There is no relation between unemployment … lower amount of market work in areas of long-term high unemployment is offset by additional household production. In … contrast, in those areas where unemployment has risen cyclically reduced market work is made up almost entirely by additional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012765212
Results of general equilibrium models are sensitive to model parameterization and specification. The role of macroeconomic closures and the effect of trade elasticities are documented in the literature, but there is no systematic analysis of the implications of different labor supply...
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additional leisure and personal maintenance, not in increased household production. There is no relation between unemployment … lower amount of market work in areas of long-term high unemployment is offset by additional household production. In … contrast, in those areas where unemployment has risen cyclically reduced market work is made up almost entirely by additional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269324
wage and unemployment duration. We consider a model of household job search in which the outcomes of bargaining are … unemployment duration: the more the husband earns, the longer the wife searches for a job; whereas the more the wife earns, the … sooner the husband finds a job. Secondly, an increase of $100 in unemployment insurance (UI) per month lowers employment rate …
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that almost none of the reduction in market work in areas of long-term high unemployment is offset by additional work at … home. In contrast, in those areas where unemployment has risen cyclically, reduced market work is largely substituted by …
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In this paper it is argued that the domestic division of labor and trade is organized according to the same principle as the international division of labor and trade – the Ricardian comparative advantages. After all, the ultimate source of these comparative advantages is the individual. The...
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unskilled unemployment via consumer demand: longer work hours and higher labor force participation imply higher incomes and less … consumer demand toward unskill-intensive goods. Relative demand for unskilled labor rises and unemployment falls. Finally, we …
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There is substantial heterogeneity in the gender gaps in unemployment across OECD countries. We incorporate labor … market conditions, moral hazard and home production into a quantitative model of unemployment. The model can explain most of … the gender gaps in unemployment across the OECD countries. We �find that each component is quantitatively important to …
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response to a sudden financial shock in family income, that is, unemployment of their partner. While previous empirical studies … focus on married women's response to those shocks, I explicitly analyze the spillover effects of unemployment on both women … and employer terminations as exogenous forms of unemployment. Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel …
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