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Unemployment through `Learning from Experience'

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  • Alpern, Steve
  • Snower, Dennis J.

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This paper shows that when workers have some market power and face substantial uncertainty concerning their productivity, it may be in their interest to formulate their wage claims with a view to the information thereby revealed. This learning behaviour may in turn be responsible for unemployment. Our analysis shows how the process of information acquisition through wage claims generates a higher rate of youth unemployment and long-term unemployment and a lower probability of dismissal for incumbent workers than would otherwise be the case.

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  • Alpern, Steve & Snower, Dennis J., 1990. "Unemployment through `Learning from Experience'," CEPR Discussion Papers 483, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    • Handle: RePEc:cpr:ceprdp:483
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