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Boon Or Bane? Others' Unemployment, Well-Being And Job Insecurity
June 1, 2009 12:00am PDT
The social norm of unemployment suggests that aggregate unemployment reduces the wellbeing of the employed, but has a far smaller effect on the unemployed. The authors use German panel data to...
Provided by: Institute for the Study of Labor
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The NRU And The Evolution Of Regional Disparities In Spanish Unemployment
July 1, 2011 12:00am PDT
On both theoretical and empirical grounds, this paper provides evidence that refutes the Natural Rate of Unemployment (NRU) hypothesis as an explanation of the evolution of regional disparities in...
Provided by: Institute for the Study of Labor
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Labor Unemployment Risk And Corporate Financing Decisions
November 22, 2010 12:00am PST
This paper examines the impact of labor unemployment risk on corporate financing decisions. Theory suggests that firms choose conservative financial policies partly as a means of mitigating worker...
Provided by: New York University
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A Latent Variable Approach To Forecasting The Unemployment Rate
July 1, 2009 12:00am PDT
A forecasting model for unemployment is constructed that exploits the time-series properties of unemployment while satisfying the economic relationships specified by Okun's law and the Phillips...
Provided by: University of Melbourne
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Macro-Determinants Of UK Regional Unemployment And The Role Of Employment Flexibility
November 7, 2007 12:00am PST
This paper explores the macroeconomic determinants of UK regional unemployment and their relation to the influences on unemployment exerted by the levels and types of employment flexibility in the...
Provided by: Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Should Unemployment Insurance Vary With The Unemployment Rate? Theory And Evidence
June 1, 2011 12:00am PDT
The authors study how the level of Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefits that trades off the consumption smoothing benefit with the moral hazard cost of distorting job search behavior varies over...
Provided by: National Bureau of Economic Research
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Shocks And The Unavoidable Road To Higher Taxes And Higher Unemployment
December 9, 2006 12:00am PST
This paper considers a matching model in which multiple steady-state unemployment rates exist if government expenditures and unemployment benefits are high enough. The focus on the extensive...
Provided by: University of Amsterdam
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Unemployment In Latin America And The Caribbean
August 1, 2011 12:00am PDT
This paper constructs a new data set on unemployment rates in Latin America and the Caribbean and then explores the determinants of unemployment. The authors compare different countries, finding...
Provided by: National Bureau of Economic Research
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Clashing Theories Of Unemployment
June 1, 2011 12:00am PDT
General-equilibrium models for studying monetary influences in general and the zero lower bound on the nominal interest rate in particular contain implicit theories of unemployment. In some cases,...
Provided by: National Bureau of Economic Research
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The Ins And Outs Of UK Unemployment
August 1, 2010 12:00am PDT
This paper shows that in the UK, increases in unemployment in a recession are driven by rises in the separation rate. A new decomposition of unemployment dynamics is devised that does not require...
Provided by: University of Warwick
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Involuntary Unemployment And The Business Cycle
June 1, 2010 12:00am PDT
The authors propose a monetary model in which the unemployed satisfy the official US definition of unemployment: they are people without jobs who are currently making concrete efforts to find work...
Provided by: European Central Bank
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Inequality And Unemployment In A Global Economy
November 1, 2008 12:00am PDT
This paper develops a new framework for examining the distributional consequences of trade liberalization that is consistent with increasing inequality in every country, growth in residual wage...
Provided by: National Bureau of Economic Research
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Financing Unemployment Benefits By Goods Market Competition: Fiscal Policy And Deregulation With Market Imperfections
October 16, 2008 12:00am PDT
The authors consider a model with labor market frictions and monopolistic competition in the goods market. They introduce proportional income taxation and unemployment benefits with Government...
Provided by: University of Padova
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Unemployment Durations After Temporary Work: Evidence For Great Britain And Germany
March 11, 2008 12:00am PDT
Unemployment durations are determined by a number of factors. According to mainstream economics theory, unemployment durations are shorter in a more flexible labour market. In this paper, the...
Provided by: Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Labor Markets And Monetary Policy: A New-keynesian Model With Unemployment
March 1, 2008 12:00am PST
The authors construct a utility-based model of fluctuations, with nominal rigidities and unemployment, and draw its implications for the unemployment-inflation tradeoff and for the conduct of...
Provided by: National Bureau of Economic Research
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International Trade And Unemployment: Theory And Cross-National Evidence
January 21, 2008 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors present two alternative models of trade and unemployment, in which unemployment is generated through a search mechanism. The basic framework of the first model is...
Provided by: INSEAD
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Why Has Unemployment Risen In The New South Africa
June 1, 2007 12:00am PDT
The authors document the rise in unemployment in South Africa since the transition in 1994. They describe the likely causes of this increase and analyze whether the increase in unemployment is due...
Provided by: National Bureau of Economic Research
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Offshoring And Unemployment
June 1, 2007 12:00am PDT
In this paper, in order to study the impact of offshoring on sectoral and economywide rates of unemployment, the authors construct a two sector general equilibrium model in which labor is mobile...
Provided by: National Bureau of Economic Research
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« The Scarring Effect Of Unemployment In Ten European Countries : An Analysis Based On The ECHP »
April 18, 2011 12:00am PDT
This paper investigates the effect of unemployment on earnings for ten European countries. Using a harmonised database (ECHP), the authors estimate the impact of declared unemployment on...
Provided by: University Nancy
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Matching Models Of Equilibrium Unemployment: An Overview
April 9, 2011 12:00am PDT
This paper aims to provide an overview of the labour market's benchmark macroeconomic models. The matching models of equilibrium unemployment are, in fact, the primary and most popular theoretical...
Provided by: Munich Personal Repec Archive
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