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The Unequal Cost of Job Loss across Countries
Bertheau, Antoine; Acabbi, Edoardo; Barceló, Cristina; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
and Sweden experience the lowest earnings declines following job displacement, while workers in Italy, Spain, and Portugal …
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What Hides Behind an Umemployment Rate : Comparing Portuguese and U.S. Unemployment
Blanchard, Olivier - 1998
Over the last 15 years, Portugal and the United States have had the same average unemployment rate, about 6.5%. But … behind these similar rates hide two very different labor markets. Unemployment duration in Portugal is more than three times … that of the United States. Symmetrically, the flow of workers into unemployment in Portugal is, in proportion to the labor …
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Deutschland / Statistisches Bundesamt; Deutschland - Stuttgart : Metzler-Poeschel - 1990(1991) - 2002(2003)
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The Gender Gap in Earnings Losses after Job Displacement
Illing, Hannah; Schmieder, Johannes; Trenkle, Simon - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Existing research has shown that job displacement leads to large and persistent earnings losses for men, but evidence for women is scarce. Using administrative data from Germany, we apply an event study design in combination with propensity score matching and a reweighting technique to directly...
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Hysteresis and the European Unemployment Problem
Blanchard, Olivier J. - 1986
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The Reservation Wage of Unemployed Persons in the Federal Republic of Germany : Theory and Empirical Tests
Franz, Wolfgang - 1980
This study examines the determinants of the reservation wage of unemployed persons in the Federal Republic of Germany in 1976. The theoretical section presents the derivation of an optimal reservation wage and shows the source of an ambiguity of some explanatory variables. The data basis are...
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Evidence on Job Search Models from a Survey of Unemployed Workers in Germany
DellaVigna, Stefano - 2020
The job finding rate of Unemployment Insurance (UI) recipients declines in the initial months of unemployment and then exhibits a spike at the benefit exhaustion point. A range of theoretical explanations have been proposed, but those are hard to disentangle using data on job finding alone. To...
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Does Temporary Help Work Provide a Stepping Stone to Regular Employment?
Kvasnicka, Michael - 2008
Based on administrative data from the federal employment services in Germany, this paper applies statistical matching techniques to estimate the stepping-stone function to regular employment of temporary help work for unemployed job seekers. Our results show that workers who enter temporary help...
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Flexibility and Job Creation : Lessons for Germany
Heckman, James J. - 2002
This paper examines the performance of the German economy and the role of the regulation and welfare state policies in affecting its performance. While the German economy is still strong, incentives in place are likely to impair future German competitiveness and productivity
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