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The Short- and Long-Term Career Effects of Graduating in a Recession: Hysteresis and Heterogeneity in the Market for College Graduates

Oreopoulos, Philip; Wachter, Till von; Heisz, Andrew - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

This paper analyzes the long-term effects of graduating in a recession on earnings, job mobility, and employer characteristics for a large sample of Canadian college graduates using matched university-employer-employee data from 1982 to 1999. The results are used to assess the role of job...

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The Nature of Occupational Unemployment Rates in the United States : Hysteresis or Structural?

Candelon, Bertrand; Dupuy, Arnaud; Gil-Alana, Luis A. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

This paper provides new evidence on the nature of occupational differences in unemployment dynamics, which is relevant … for the debate between the structural or hysteresis hypotheses. We develop a procedure that permits us to test for the …

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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 … effect of trade influences labor market outcomes. Trade liberalization lowers unemployment and raises real wages as long as …

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Employment Stability of Entrants in Newly Founded Firms : A Matching Approach Using Linked Employer-Employee Data from Germany

Schnabel, Claus; Kohaut, Susanne; Brixy, Udo - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

Using a linked employer-employee dataset and taking the perspective of individuals rather than firms, this paper analyzes some effects of joining start-ups. We show that entrants in new firms differ from those joining incumbent firms, and we use a matching approach to compare a group of...

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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

policies on transition rates out of unemployment. We performthe first evaluation of training effects for the unemployed adults … in France, exploiting a uniquelongitudinal dataset from the unemployment insurance system... …

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Der Arbeitsmarkt in Deutschland: ZwischenStrukturreformen und sozialpolitischem Reflex

Eichhorst, Werner - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Die Arbeitsmarktreformen der letzten Jahre haben die strukturellen Anpassungsproblemedes deutschen Beschäftigungsmodells zum Teil gelindert - allerdings sind noch längst nichtalle Schwierigkeiten überwunden...

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Regional Unemployment and Human Capital inTransition Economies

Jurajda, Stěpán; Terrell, Katherine D. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Differences in regional unemployment in post-communist economies are large andpersistent. We show that inherited … variation in human-capital endowment across the regionsof four such economies explains the bulk of regional unemployment …

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On the Inverse Relationship betweenUnemployment and Absenteeism: Evidence fromNatural Experiments and Worker Heterogeneity

Fahr, René; Frick, Bernd - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Although an inverse relationship between sickness absence and unemployment has beendocumented in a number of studies … whether this empiricalregularity is due to changes in the individual costs of absence when unemployment increases …

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Unemployed and Their Caseworkers:Should They Be Friends or Foes?

Behncke, Stefanie; Frölich, Markus; Lechner, Michael - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

In many countries, caseworkers in a public employment office have the dual roles ofcounselling and monitoring …

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Targeting Labour Market Programmes:Results from a Randomized Experiment

Behncke, Stefanie; Frölich, Markus; Lechner, Michael - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

We evaluate a randomized experiment of a statistical support system developed to assistcaseworkers in Swiss employment …

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