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We consider a labor market search model where, by working longer hours, individuals acquire greater skills and thereby … longer hours. By contrast, a higher probability of losing jobs, a longer duration of unemployment, and in general a less …
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We consider a labor market search model where, by working londer hours, individuals acquire greater skills and thereby … longer hours. By contrast, a higher probability of losing jobs, a longer duration of unemployment, and in general a less …
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We consider a competitive equilibrium growth model where technological progress is embodied into new jobs that are assigned to workers of different skills. In every period workers decide whether to actively participate in the labor market and if so how many hours to work on the job. Balanced...
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This paper offers an alternative theory for the increase in unemployment and wage inequality experienced in the United … change increases skilled wages, reduces unskilled wages and increases the unemployment rate of both skilled and unskilled …
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propose a search model with transferable utility in which ex-ante heterogeneous men and women simultaneously search for … partners in the marriage market and switch between employment and unemployment in the labor market. In the marriage market … labor market divorces triggered by unemployment has decreased significantly. …
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propose a search model with transferable utility in which ex-ante heterogeneous men and women simultaneously search for … partners in the marriage market and switch between employment and unemployment in the labor market. In the marriage market … labor market divorces triggered by unemployment has decreased significantly. …
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This paper surveys recent work in equilibrium models of labor markets characterized by search and recruitment frictions … and by the need to reallocate workers across productive activities. The duration of unemployment and jobs and wage … policies on wages and unemployment. …
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On the 1st of January 2016 the Irish National Minimum Wage increased from €8.65 to €9.15 per hour, an increase of approximately six percent. We use a difference-in-differences estimator to evaluate whether the change in the minimum wage affected the hours worked and likelihood of job loss of...
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between and within skill categories, as well as an increase in unemployment, especially among low-skill workers. Movements in … productivity, unemployment and inequality may thus be linked to induced overeducation and credentialism. …
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This paper documents earnings dynamics over the life-cycle and income level using a large administrative database from German tax records. I find that labor earnings display important deviations from the typical assumptions of linearity and normality. For the bottom earners, large income changes...
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