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Wage cyclicality and the wage curve under the microscope
Ludsteck, Johannes - 2008
Auf der Basis der Deutschen Beschäftigtenhistorik untersuchen wir die Konjunkturabhängigkeit von Löhnen auf aggregierter und regionaler Ebene. Dabei unterscheiden wir zwischen Betriebswechslern und Beschäftigten, die im selben Betrieb bleiben. Wir finden, dass die Reaktion der Löhne auf...
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U.S. Shadow Economies : A State-Level Study
Wiseman, Travis - 2015
Recent studies of shadow economies focus primarily on cross-country comparisons. Few have examined regional or state-level variations in underground economic activity. This paper presents estimates of the shadow economy for 50 U.S. states over the period 1997 to 2008. Results suggest that tax...
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Should UI eligibility be expanded to low-earning workers? : evidence on employment, transfer receipt, and income from administrative data
Leung, Pauline; O'Leary, Christopher J. - 2015
Recent efforts to expand unemployment insurance (UI) eligibility are expected to increase low-earning workers' access …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011341908
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Predictors of employment growth and unemployment in US central cities : 1990 - 2010
Wolf-Powers, Laura - 2013
This paper considers employment growth and unemployment from 1990-2010 in a cross-section of cities in light of … unemployment rates in 83 central cities in the United States. Change in educational attainment over time is suggestive of causing … higher job growth and lower unemployment. The implication is that initiatives to attract and retain college …
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Does the US Tax Code Encourage Market Concentration? An Empirical Analysis of the Effect of the Corporate Tax Structure on Profit Shares and Shareholder Payouts
Hager, Sandy Brian; Baines, Joseph - 2023
also a catalyst for rising wealth and income inequality, as monopolistic firms are able to suppress workers’ wages and … corporate concentration and to widening inequality among households. *** With the objective of leveling the playing field, our …
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What are the relative macroeconomic merits and environmental impacts of direct job creation and basic income guarantees?
Tcherneva, Pavlina R. (contributor) - 2007
. -- Macroeconomic Stability ; Inflation ; Unemployment ; the Environment ; Employer of Last Resort ; Basic Income Guarantee …
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Base period, qualifying period and the equilibrium rate of unemployment
Jahn, Elke J. (contributor); Wagner, Thomas (contributor) - 2006
Unemployment benefits, benefit duration, base period and qualifying period are constituent parameters of the … unemployment insurance system in most OECD countries. From economic research we know that the amount and duration of unemployment … benefits increase unemployment. To analyze the effects of the other two parameters we use a matching model with search …
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The secular rise in unemployment insurance exhaustions and what can be done about it
Smith, Ralph E. - 2011
Over the past several decades, the rate at which regular unemployment insurance recipients run out of benefits before … recipients exhausted their benefits; in 2007 (with a similar unemployment rate) 35.6 percent exhausted. This paper documents the … increase in the exhaustion rate, along with the parallel rise in long-term unemployment; examines the consequences; and reviews …
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An examination of the work history of Pittsburgh steelworkers, who were displaced and received publicly-funded retraining in the early 1980s
Bednarzik, Robert W.; Szalanski, Joseph - 2012
A gap in the displaced worker-training literature is that the post-retraining period has not been studied over the long term. The approach here will be to examine in-depth the experience of a selected few displaced worker trainees over a 20 to 25 year period following their training. With our...
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Wage insurance as a policy option in the United States
Wandner, Stephen A. - 2016
Wage insurance is a program that attempts to help permanently displaced workers transition to employment rapidly, effectively, and equitably. Because displaced workers have been found to suffer substantial earnings losses when they become reemployed, a wage insurance program provides a temporary...
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