Browsing Τμήμα Οικονομικών / Department of Economics by Subject "Unemployment"
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The impact of employment tax cuts on unemployment and wages
(1998)I model and simulate the effects of employment tax cuts on unemployment and wages in four equilibrium models: competitive, union bargaining, search and efficiency wages. I find that if the ratio of unemployment compensation ...
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The impact of immigration on the employment and wages of native workers
(2013)We analyze the impact of the immigration influx that took place during the years 2000-2007 in Greece on labor market outcomes. We employ a search and matching framework that allows for skill heterogeneity and differential ...
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The labor market effects of reducing the number of illegal immigrants
(2015)A controversial issue in the US is how to reduce the number of illegal immigrants and what effect this would have on the US economy. To answer this question we set up a two-country model with search in labor markets and ...
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Measuring the Welfare Costs of Racial Discrimination in the Labor Market
(2023-04)We find that the conditional wage-gap for non-whites is negatively related to gross domestic product per worker across the US. To explain this, we develop a model linking unequal access to employment with the wage gap, ...