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Training the Unemployed in France: How Does ItAffect Unemployment Duration and Recurrence?
Crépon, Bruno; Ferracci, Marc; Fougère, Denis - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Econometric evaluations of public-sponsored training programmes generally find littleevidence of an impact of such policies on transition rates out of unemployment. We performthe first evaluation of training effects for the unemployed adults in France, exploiting a uniquelongitudinal dataset...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861168
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Education, Market Rigidities and Growth
Aghion, Philippe; Askenazy, Philippe; Bourlès, Renaud; … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This note investigates the effects of the education level, product market rigidities andemployment protection legislation on growth. It exploits macro-panel data for OECDcountries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861411
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Comparing the Effectiveness of Employment Subsidies
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper analyses theoretically and empirically how employment subsidies should betargeted. We contrast measures involving targeting workers with low incomes/abilities andtargeting the unemployed under the criteria of "approximate welfare efficiency" (AWE)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862794
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Offshoring and Unemployment
Mitra, Devashish; Ranjan, Priya - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
In this paper, in order to study the impact of offshoring on sectoral and economywide rates ofunemployment, we … tooffshoring. This result can be understood to arise from the productivity enhancing (costreducing) effect of offshoring. If the … search cost is identical in the two sectors, or even if thesearch cost is higher in the sector which experiences offshoring …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862882
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Performance Pay, Sorting, and Outsourcing
Henneberger, Fred; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso; Ziegler, Alexandre - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Implementing performance pay requires that workers' output be measured. Whenmeasurement costs differ among firms, those with a measurement cost advantage choose toimplement performance pay. They attract the best workers, and both the level and variabilityof compensation are higher at these firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862076
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Equilibrium Unemployment with Outsourcing andWage Solidarity Under Labour Market Imperfections
Koskela, Erkki; Stenbacka, Rune - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
We evaluate the effects of outsourcing and wage solidarity on wage formation andequilibrium unemployment in a … heterogeneous labour market, where wages are determinedby a monopoly labour union. We find that outsourcing promotes the wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005863113
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Equilibrium Unemployment with OutsourcingUnder Labour Market Imperfections
Koskela, Erkki; Stenbacka, Rune - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
We study both the various consequences and the incentives of outsourcing. We argue thatthe wage elasticity of labour … demand is increasing as a function of the share of outsourcing,which is importantly a result consistent with existing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005863250