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public employment in total employment has been greatest where unemployment was highest and growing the fastest, in ethnically … public employment for several purposes: as a kind of economic insurance to cushion the population against unemployment; as a …
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This paper estimates causal effects of two Polish active labor market policies - Training and Intervention Works - on employment probabilities. Using data from the 18th wave of the Polish Labor Force Survey we discuss three stages of an appropriately designed matching procedure and demonstrate...
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This paper aims to study whether the local variation in unemployment rates is related to labour turnover and what is … unemployment on the dynamics of the local unemployment rate. The empirical analysis is based on a newly available unique dataset … from the employment registry of a transition economy (Poland), encompassing nine years of monthly data (from 2000 to 2008 …
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flows in the period of massive and rapid labor reallocation, i.e. the economic transition from a centrally planned to a …
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We explore data from all transition economies over nearly two decades, providing insights on the mechanisms behind …
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enter into employment, and unemployment in the local area district. Largely unexplored in the literature this adds to the … work which has examined the association between employee wages and unemployment - the "wage curve". …
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. The unemployment rate declined steadily as well, except for upward shifts due to the late 1990s Asian Financial Crisis and … homeownership and declining unemployment are linked and that the causality runs from high homeownership leading to high unemployment … unemployment is statistically fragile, but a greater prevalence of freehold ownership and mortgaged ownership below the mean across …
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Russian labour market, the unemployment growth. The purpose of the work is to find out which effects dominate in the Russian … were empirically tested: 1) the dependence of the unemployment rate on the degree of concentration or diversification is … concentration or diversification on the level of unemployment depends on the time period. To test these hypotheses nonparametric …
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Multiple job holding rates differ substantially across U.S. regions, states, and metropolitan areas. Rates decrease markedly with respect to labor market size. These patterns have been largely overlooked, despite being relatively fixed over (at least) the 1998-2014 period. This paper explores...
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By exploiting a labor market reform causing an outflow of German workers to Switzerland, we examine the effect of negative labor supply shocks on training in firms using the market for apprenticeships as an example. Analysis of administrative data reveals that the reform led to more apprentices...
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