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Brinkmann, Christina; Jäger, Simon; Kuhn, Moritz; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Governments use short-time work (STW) schemes to subsidize job preservation during crises. We study the take-up of STW and its effects on worker outcomes and firm behavior using German administrative data from 2009 to 2021. Establishments utilizing STW tend to have higher wages, be larger, and...

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The Macroeconomic Dynamics of Labor Market Policies

Hurst, Erik; Kehoe, Patrick J.; Pastorino, Elena; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

We develop a dynamic macroeconomic framework with worker heterogeneity, putty-clay adjustment frictions, and firm monopsony power to study the distributional impact of labor market policies over time. Our framework reconciles the well-known tension between low short-run and high long-run...

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Determinants of Labor Demand in Colombia : 1976-1996

Cardenas, Mauricio - 2003

Colombia's unemployment rate rose to 20% during the late 1990s from less than 8% in 1994. This paper argues that this …

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Who Benefits from Labor Market Regulations? Chile 1960-1998

Montenegro, Claudio - 2003

Economists have examined the impact of labor market regulations on the level of employment. However, there are many reasons to suspect that the impact of regulations differs across types of workers. In this paper we take advantage of the unusual large variance in labor policy in Chile to exa...

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The Search for Good Jobs : Evidence from a Six-year Field Experiment in Uganda

Bandiera, Oriana; Bassi, Vittorio; Burgess, Robin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

There are 420 million young people in Africa today. Understanding how youth search for jobs and what affects their ability to find good jobs is of paramount importance. We do so using a field experiment tracking young job seekers for six years in Uganda's main cities. We examine how two standard...

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Can helping the sick hurt the able? Incentives, information and disruption in a disability-related welfare reform

Bagaria, Nitika - 2015

unemployment insurance (UI). This policy reform improved job information and sharpened bureaucratic incentives to find jobs for the … unemployment outflows. This is consistent with a model where information helps both groups, but bureaucrats were given incentives …

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Technology and Labor Regulations : Theory and Evidence

Alesina, Alberto - 2015

This paper shows that different labor market policies can lead to differences in technology across sectors in a model of labor saving technologies. Labor market regulations reduce the skill premium and as a result, if technologies are labor saving, countries with more stringent labor regulation,...

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Place Based Policies with Unemployment

Kline, Patrick - 2013

Many countries have policies aimed at creating jobs in depressed areas with high unemployment rates. In standard … develop a stylized model of frictional local labor markets with the goal of studying the efficiency of unemployment … housing costs, and lower unemployment rates. Although workers can move freely to arbitrage away differences in expected …

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Employment in Black Urban Labor Markets : Problems and Solutions

Hellerstein, Judith K. - 2011

Blacks in the United States are poorer than whites and have much lower employment rates. "Place-based" policies seek to improve the labor markets in which blacks - especially low-income urban blacks - tend to reside. We first review the literature on spatial mismatch, which provides much of the...

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The Role of Labor Market Changes in the Slowdown of European Productivity Growth

Dew-Becker, Ian - 2008

Throughout the postwar era until 1995 labor productivity grew faster in Europe than in the United States. Since 1995, productivity growth in the EU-15 has slowed while that in the United States has accelerated. But Europe's productivity growth slowdown was largely offset by faster growth in...

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