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Skill Biased Technological Change and Endogenous Benefits: The Dynamics of Unemployment and Wage Inequality

Weiss, Matthias; Garloff, Alfred - 2005

In this paper, we study the effect of skill-biased technological change on unemployment when benefits are linked to the … workers and hence their wage leads to an increase in average income and hence in benefits. The increased fallback income, in … unskilled when benefits are endogenous. The model provides a theoretical explanation for diverging developments in wage …

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Assimilation to a welfare state : labor market performance and use of social benefits by immigrants to Finland

Sarvimäki, Matti - In: The Scandinavian journal of economics 113 (2011) 3, pp. 665-688

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Unemployment and attitudes to work : asking the "right" question

Dunn, Andrew; Grasso, Maria T.; Saunders, Clare - In: Work, employment & society : a journal of the British … 28 (2014) 6, pp. 904-925

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Sanctions and the exit from unemployment in two different benefit schemes

Busk, Henna - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 42 (2016), pp. 159-176

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Evidence from the "frontline"? : an ethnographic problematisation of welfare-to-work administrator opinions

Jordan, John David - In: Work, employment and society : a journal of the British … 32 (2018) 1, pp. 57-74

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Finland; Selected Issues

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2007

This Selected Issues paper investigates the possible contribution of activation strategiesâ€”in a broad senseâ€”to improve employment rates in Finland. It summarizes recent labor market developments in Finland, and investigates respectively the limitation of current unemployment and...

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Regional Wage Differentiation and Wage Bargaining Systems in the EU

Vamvakidis, Athanasios - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008

The theoretical literature has argued that a centralized wage bargaining system may result in low regional wage differentiation and high regional unemployment differentials. The empirical literature has found that centralized wage bargaining leads to lower wage inequality for different skills,...

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Potential unemployment insurance duration and labor supply : the individual and market-level response to a benefit cut

Johnston, Andrew; Mas, Alexandre - 2020

We examine how a 16-week cut in potential unemployment insurance (UI) duration in Missouri affected search behavior of UI recipients and the aggregate labor market. Using a regression discontinuity design (RDD), we estimate a marginal effect of maximum duration on UI and nonemployment spells of...

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The effect of unemployment benefits on the duration of unemployment insurance receipt : new evidence from a regression kink design in Missouri, 2003-2013

Card, David E.; Johnston, Andrew; Leung, Pauline; Mas, … - 2020

We provide new evidence on the effect of the unemployment insurance (UI) weekly benefit amount on unemployment insurance spells based on administrative data from the state of Missouri covering the period 2003-2013. Identification comes from a regression kink design that exploits the...

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The Inflation-Unemployment Trade-Off At Low Inflation

Ricci, Luca Antonio; Benigno, Pierpaolo - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009

Wage setters take into account the future consequences of their current wage choices in the presence of downward nominal wage rigidities. Several interesting implications arise. First, a closed-form solution for a long-run Phillips curve relates average unemployment to average wage inflation;...

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