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Right-wing extremism is a serious problem in many societies. A prominent hypothesis states that unemployment plays a … significant positive relation between unemployment and right-wing criminal activities. We show further that the big difference in … right-wing crime between East and West German states can mostly be attributed to differences in unemployment. This finding …
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decreasing in the substitutability of worker types. This cost of search is then decomposed into three components: unemployment … workers being more choosy. The resulting equilibrium is not efficient. Unemployment benefits can reduce the loss by serving as …
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-wage country if the unemployment rate is higher in the former than in latter and wages are not high enough to compensate for the …This paper considers the effects of labor mobility in a specific factors model when unemployment arises for matching …-theoretic reasons. Immigration raises the welfare of domestic workers even though the increasing labor supply decreases wages if firms …
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the degree of labour mobility. The analysis shows that transitory unemployment increases the likelihood of policy reversal …
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We compare various matching estimators to the results of two randomized field experiments that evaluate employment effects of job search training programs. We find that commonly used non-experimental matching estimators tend to over-estimate the program effects and that the bias differs between...
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While the labour market integration of immigrant youth has increasingly received attention in recent years, due to the lack of appropriate data comparative studies are scarce until now and theoretical reasons for persistence of ethnic disadvantages often remain unclear. In this paper we try to...
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differentiated wage increases leading towards lower wages in the Walloon Region and therefore less unemployment. The paper shows that … blamed for the persistent high unemployment rate in the Walloon Region, while a process per Region would lead to … unlikely that the higher unemployment rate would lead towards wage moderation. In addition, regional bargaining could …
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affecting UK labour market conditions. When the real exchange rate is undervalued, short-run unemployment falls as firms respond … to an improvement in domestic competitiveness by increasing their demand for labour. The unemployment response to the … reflects monetary policy considerations, our results imply that unemployment can be targeted by economic policy. Our results …
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simultaneous existence of the urban informal sector and the urban unemployment has been explained interms of such efficiency wage … different effects in the two different situations. Interestingly, urban subsidy policies reduces urban unemployment in both of … the two cases, where as rural subsidy policy intensifies the problem of unemployment when urban informal sector is related …
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The social science literature has done much to document pervasive racial discrimination in Brazil and there is little doubt that a very dark color is a handicap to social advancement. Nevertheless, very few empirical economic studies have attempted to quantify the impact of ethnic discrimination...
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