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mainly on dismissals protection, distinguishing between the themes of employment and unemployment development and labor … market dynamics proper. Our discussion of employment and unemployment largely deals with the effect of employment protection …
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institutions; on the basis of which, and recent theoretical developments, specific support is adduced for the German, contemporary …
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This study examines the potential impact of works councils and unions on the deployment of fixed-term contracts and agency temps. We report inter al. that works councils are associated with a higher number of temporary agency workers when demand volatility is high while the opposite holds for...
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indicator -- and our macro performance outcome is the unemployment rate. Independent of the role of other institutions, good … relations ; labor market institutions ; unemployment … industrial relations do seem to matter: greater strike volume is associated with higher unemployment. Holding country effects …
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Although the adverse labor market effects of economic recessions have been well documented, a notable omission in the literature is how recessions impact workers' job match quality. This paper considers the short and longer-term losses in productivity associated with the job changing brought in...
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-ended work ; employment continuity ; unemployment ; inactivity …
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Atypical work arrangements have long been criticized as offering more precarious and lower paid work than regular open-ended employment. In an important paper, Booth et al. (2002) were among the first to recognize that notwithstanding their potential deficiencies, such jobs also functioned as a...
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Atypical employment, such as temporary, on-call, and contract work, has been found disproportionately to attract the jobless. But there is no consensus in the literature as to the labour market consequences of such job choice by unemployed individuals. Using data from the Current Population...
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involves conditioning elapsed duration on completed unemployment duration in the reservation wage equation. Our analysis … duration coefficient suggests that higher reservation wages negatively influence the probability of exiting unemployment …. -- reservation wages ; unemployment duration ; control function …
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duration is associated with substantially higher quarterly rates of job finding in the range 53 to 106 percent. -- Unemployment … benefits ; unemployment duration ; job search …
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