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Wage coordination plays an important role in macroeconomic stabilization. Pattern wage bargaining systems have been common in Europe, but in different forms, and with different degrees of success in terms of actual coordination reached. We focus on wage formation in Norway, a small open economy,...
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This study investigates the impacts of the minimum wage on U.S. regional labor markets. Using ten years of county-level data, we examine the relationship between the minimum wage and several key components of the labor market. Following past research, the number of people in the labor force is...
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This study aims to investigate the short-run and long-run relationship between economic variables and the unemployment …-run relationship between the unemployment rate and the selected economic variables. Data were collected from WDI, WGI, and FDSD for the … between the unemployment rate and economic variables over time. The finding of the study showed a negative and significant …
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We study unemployment insurance in a framework where the main source of heterogeneity among agents is the type of … aggregate wealth moments. Our central finding is that changes to the current unemployment insurance program are valued … differently by married and single households. In particular, a more generous unemployment insurance reduces the welfare of married …
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This paper provides robust estimates of the impact of both product and labor market regulations on unemployment using … set of covariates, results show that product market deregulation overall reduces the unemployment rate. This finding is … effect: deregulation of state controls and in particular involvement in business operations tend to push up the unemployment …
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-Mortensen-Pissarides model. Log linearization under- states the mean and volatility of unemployment, but overstates the volatility of labor … market tightness and the magnitude of the unemployment-vacancy correlation. Log linearization also understates the impulse … responses in unemployment in recessions, but overstates the responses in the market tightness in booms. Finally, the second …
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's technology choice is embedded in a search theoretic framework for unemployment. More advanced technology is assumed to have a … increase in the unemployment benefit leads to an increase in the equilibrium wage rate, giving an incentive to firms to choose … a more advanced technology. Thus, this result regarding unemployment insurance in models with wage posting carries …
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