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The Effect of Shocks to Labour Market Flows on Unemployment and Participation Rates

Dixon, Robert J. - 2014

interact and affect the evolution of unemployment rates and participation rates, the two main indicators of labour market … performance. Our analysis has two special features. First, apart from the two labour market states – employment and unemployment … that a shock to the net flow from unemployment to employment drive the unemployment rate and the participation rate in …

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Estimating Incentive and Welfare Effects of Non-Stationary Unemployment Benefits

Launov, Andrey - 2010

The distribution of unemployment duration in our equilibrium matching model with spell-dependent unemployment benefits … aggregate unemployment rate. Structural estimation using a German micro-data set (SOEP) allows us to discuss the effects of a … recent unemployment benefit reform (Hartz IV). The reform reduced unemployment by only 0.3%. Contrary to general beliefs, we …

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Business Cycle Asymmetries and the Labor Market

Kohlbrecher, Britta - 2016

density function with higher density and thereby generate large, asymmetric job-finding rate and unemployment reactions. Our …

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Labor Courts, Nomination Bias, and Unemployment in Germany

Berger, Helge - 2006

unemployment, even after controlling for the endogeneity of court activity. The results have potentially important policy …

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Sorting and the Output Loss Due to Search Frictions

Gautier, Pieter; Teulings, Coen N. - 2021

. This model yields a simple relationship between (i) the unemployment rate, (ii) the value of non-market time, and (iii) the … and allow for measurement error. The estimated wage dispersion and mismatch for the US is consistent with an unemployment …

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Skill Premiums and the Supply of Young Workers in Germany

Glitz, Albrecht - 2017

In this paper, we study the development and underlying drivers of skill premiums in Germany between 1980 and 2008. We show that the significant increase in the medium to low skill wage premiums since the late 1980s was almost exclusively concentrated among the group of workers aged 30 or below....

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Employment Effects of Payroll Tax Subsidies

Collischon, Matthias - 2018

This paper exploits several reforms of wage subsidies in the framework of the German Minijob program to investigate substitution and complementarity relationships between subsidized and non-subsidized labor demand. We apply an instrumental variables approach and use administrative data on German...

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A Continuous Theory of Income Insurance

Lindbeck, Assar - 2010

In this paper we treat an individual's health as a continuous variable, in contrast to the traditional literature on income insurance, where it is regularly treated as a binary variable. This is not a minor technical matter; in fact, a continuous treatment of an individual's health sheds new...

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Do Undergraduate Majors or Ph.D. Students Affect Faculty Size?

Becker, William E. - 2010

economics degrees awarded at those institutions. Similarly, faculty size at colleges where a bachelor's is the highest degree …

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Trapped at Home : The Effect of Mothers' Temporary Labor Market Exits on Their Subsequent Work Career

Drange, Nina - 2012

This paper investigates how mothers' decision to stay at home with young children affects their subsequent work careers. Identification is based on the introduction of the Cash-for-Care program in Norway in 1998, which increased mothers' incentives to withdraw from the labor market when their...

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