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Globalization and Labor Market Outcomes : Wage Bargaining, Search Frictions, and Firm Heterogeneity

Felbermayr, Gabriel; Prat, Julien; Schmerer, Hans-Jörg - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

We introduce search unemployment à la Pissarides into Melitz (2003) model of trade with heterogeneous firms. We allow wages to be individually or collectively bargained and analytically solve for the equilibrium. We find that the selection effect of trade influences labor market outcomes....

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Employment Assimilation of Immigrants in the Netherlands : Catching Up and the Irrelevance of Education

Zorlu, Aslan; Hartog, Joop - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

Using two Dutch labour force surveys, employment assimilation of immigrants is examined. We observe marked differences between immigrants by source country. Non-western immigrants never reach parity with native Dutch. Even second generation immigrants never fully catch up...

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Individual Incentives in Program Participation : Splitting up the Process in Assignment and Enrollment

Weber, Andrea - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

In this paper we investigate two stages in the process that leads to participation in ALMP programs. We use unique administrative data from the Austrian unemployment registers which allow us to distinguish between caseworker assignment and actual program enrollment. Although 25% of newly...

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Occupational Mobility and the Business Cycle

Moscarini, Giuseppe; Vella, Francis - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

Do workers sort more randomly across different job types when jobs are harder to find? To answer this question, we study the mobility of male workers among three-digit occupations in the matched files of the monthly Current Population Survey over the 1979-2004 period. We clean individual...

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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...

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No Education, No Good Jobs?Evidence on the Relationship betweenEducation and Labor Market Segmentation

Pagés, Carmen; Stampini, Marco - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper assesses labor market segmentation across formal and informal salaried jobs andself-employment in three Latin American and three transition countries. It looks separately atthe markets for skilled and unskilled labor, inquiring if segmentation is an exclusive feature ofthe latter....

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Overskilling, Job Insecurity and Career Mobility

McGuinness, Seamus; Wooden, Mark - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper uses longitudinal data from Australia to examine the extent to which overskilling -the extent to which work-related skills and abilities are utilized in current employment - is atransitory phenomenon...

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Performance Pay, Training and Labor Mobility

Gielen, Anne C. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Market imperfections may cause firms and workers to under-invest in specific training. Thispaper shows that profit sharing may be a suitable instrument to enhance specific traininginvestments, either by enhancing wage flexibility or by increasing the returns to training...

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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)...

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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 …

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