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The paper develops an equilibrium search and matching model where two-person families as well as singles participate in … receive higher wages than employed singles. The model is applied to a welfare analysis of alternative unemployment insurance … systems, recognizing the role of spousal employment as a partial substitute for public insurance. The optimal system involves …
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The paper develops an equilibrium search and matching model where two-person families as well as singles participate in … receive higher wages than employed singles. The model is applied to a welfare analysis of alternative unemployment insurance … systems, recognizing the role of spousal employment as a partial substitute for public insurance. The optimal system involves …
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The paper develops an equilibrium search and matching model where two-person families as well as singles participate in … receive higher wages than employed singles. The model is applied to a welfare analysis of alternative unemployment insurance … systems, recognizing the role of spousal employment as partial substitute for public insurance. The optimal system involves …
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We characterize the equilibrium of a search model with a continuum of job and worker types, wage bargaining, free entry of vacancies and on-the-job search. The decentralized economy with monopsonistic wage setting yields too many vacancies and hence too low unemployment compared to first best....
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labour market in terms of the incentives that economic agents face. To fulfil its new role the following three reform … policies for the welfare state are analysed: Unemployment accounts, employment subsidies and flexicurity. Finally, a new …
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and matching model that allows for individual heterogeneity and participation in both self- and wage-employment as well as …In many urban African labour markets, women outnumber men in self-employment, even though gender earnings gaps are … discrimination against women in the wage sector. We show that discrimination in wage-employment can generate gender earnings gaps …
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