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Are All Labor Regulations Equal? Evidence from Indian Manufacturing
Ahsan, Ahmad; Pagés, Carmen - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
Using manufacturing data for India, this paper studies the economic effects of legal amendments on two types of labor laws: employment protection and labor dispute resolution legislation. We find that laws that increase employment protection or the cost of labor disputes substantially reduce...
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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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The Effect of Job Displacement on the Transitionsto Employment and Early Retirement for OlderWorkers in Four European Countries
Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Despite the increased frequency of job loss for older workers in Europe, little is known on itseffect on the work-retirement decision. Employing individual data from the EuropeanCommunity Household Panel for Germany, Italy, Spain, and the U.K., a multivariatecompeting-risks hazard model is...
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Product Market Regulation, Firm Selection andUnemployment
Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Prat, Julien - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper analyzes the effect of Product Market Regulation (PMR) on unemployment in asearch model with heterogeneous … rate of unemployment... …
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Selective Hiring and Welfare Analysis in Labor Market Models
Merkl, Christian; Rens, Thijs van - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012
positivepredictions of the model change very little, but the welfare costs of unemployment are muchlarger because unemployment risk is … distributed unequally across workers. As a result,optimal unemployment insurance may be higher and welfare is lower if hiring is …
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Unhappiness and Job Finding
Gielen, Anne C.; Ours, Jan C. van - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012
It is puzzling that people feel quite unhappy when they become unemployed, while at thesame time active labor market policies are needed to bring unemployed back to work morequickly. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we investigate whether there isindeed such a puzzle. First, we...
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Why Are So Many Disabled Individuals Not Workingin Spain? A Job Search Approach
Silva, José I.; Vall-Castello, Judit - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012
age at which the individualstarts receiving disability benefits, and the increase in the local unemployment rate …
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Another Economic Miracle?The German Labor Market and the Great Recession
Rinne, Ulf; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
The mild response of the German labor market to the worst global recession in post-warhistory appears as an economic miracle. In response to the crisis, Germany has shown to bea strong case of internal flexibility. We argue that important factors that have contributed tothis development include...
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Do Employers Use Unemployment as aSorting Criterion When Hiring?Evidence from a Field Experiment
Eriksson, Stefan; Rooth, Dan-Olof - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
contemporary unemployment affect a young worker’s probability ofbeing invited to a job interview. In contrast to studies using … forunobserved heterogeneity. We find no evidence that recruiting employers use informationabout past unemployment to sort workers … pastunemployment as a sorting criterion suggests that the scarring effects of unemployment maynot be as severe as has been indicated by …
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Demography, Capital Flows and Unemployment
Marchiori, Luca; Pierrard, Olivier - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
unemployment, which we calibrateon EU15 and US data. Labor market imperfections are found to significantly increase thevolume of … to investigate how demographicasymmetries may have contributed to unemployment and welfare changes in the recent past …
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