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unemployment decreases upon offshoring in the presence of perfect intersectoral labor mobility. If, as a result, labor moves to the … sector with the lower (or equal) vacancy costs, there is an unambiguous decrease in economywide unemployment. With imperfect … intersectoral labor mobility, unemployment in the offshoring sector can rise, with an unambiguous unemployment reduction in the non …
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We develop a computable general equilibrium model of the United States economy to study the unemployment effects of … carbon tax on aggregate unemployment is small and similar across the two labor mobility assumptions (0.2–0.3 percentage … points). The effect on unemployment in fossil fuel sectors is much larger under the immobility assumption – a 30 percentage …
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We present an applied general equilibrium modelling approach to analyse employment and unemployment effects of labour … problem of persistent unemployment …
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We develop a computable general equilibrium model of the United States economy to study the unemployment effects of … carbon tax on aggregate unemployment is small and similar across the two labor mobility assumptions (0.2-0.3 percentage … points). The effect on unemployment in fossil fuel sectors is much larger under the immobility assumption - a 30 percentage …
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This paper challanges the view that weak work norms in generous welfare states makes them economically unsustainable. I develop a dynamic model of family-transmitted values that has a laissez-faire equilibrium with strong work norms coexisting with a social-insurance equilibrium with weak work...
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Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However … sanctions on the unemployment duration and the quality of job matches, in conjunction with the possibility to report sick. We … relative attractiveness of vacancy referrals increases over the time spent in unemployment. Overall, around 9% of sickness …
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