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In The Netherlands, as in many countries: unemployment rates of lower educated workers are higher and more cyclical … than unemployment rates of higher educated workers. In this paper we test whether this is caused by the fact that more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005150516
The Swedish adult education program known as the Knowledge Lift (1997-2002) was unprecedented in its size and scope, aiming to raise the skill level of large numbers of lowskill workers. This paper evaluates the potential effects of this program on aggregate labor market outcomes. This is done...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822408
-off policy of firms can explain the relatively high level of unemployment amongst lower educated workers and the relatively … strong sensitivity of their unemployment rate to the business cycle. We find that lay-off rates decrease with education but … with a higher level of education can not explain the stronger cyclicality of the unemployment rate for lower educated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005451411
In The Netherlands, as in many countries: unemployment rates of lower educated workers are higher and more cyclical … than unemployment rates of higher educated workers. In this paper we test whether this is caused by the fact that more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010782442
-off policy of firms can explain the relatively high level of unemployment amongst lower educated workers and the relatively … strong sensitivity of their unemployment rate to the business cycle. We find that lay-off rates decrease with education but … with a higher level of education can not explain the stronger cyclicality of the unemployment rate for lower educated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010782757
In the past decades several features of U.S. unemployment dynamics have been investigated empirically. The original … focus of research was on the duration of unemployment. In later studies the cyclicality of incidence and duration …, compositional effects and duration dependence of the exit rate out of unemployment have been investigated. Unlike the partial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136894
This article examines whether various macroeconomic policy shocks have different effects on overall unemployment rate … and the unemployment rate by different levels of education in Turkey. These effects are assessed for total, male and … female unemployment rates separately. To examine the relationship, a quarterly VAR model with a recursive order is employed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566503
In the past decades several features of U.S. unemployment dynamics have been investigated empirically. The original … focus of research was on the duration of unemployment. In later studies the cyclicality of incidence and duration …, compositional effects and duration dependence of the exit rate out of unemployment have been investigated. Unlike the partial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257090
This paper has been presented at the Journal of Applied Econometrics International Conference on the Micro-Econometrics of Dynamic Decision Making, in Tilburg, May 1994. We would like to thank John Rust, Arie Kapteyn and other participants at this conference for their helpful comments. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011277919
This paper has been presented at the Journal of Applied Econometrics International Conference on the Micro-Econometrics of Dynamic Decision Making, in Tilburg, May 1994. We would like to thank John Rust, Arie Kapteyn and other participants at this conference for their helpful comments. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005304412