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From the Shortage of Jobs to the Shortage of SkilledWorkers: Labor Markets in the EU New Member States
Rutkowski, Jan - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
, this transformation took place within just a few years. Untilthe mid-2000s job opportunities were scarce and unemployment … was high. But since thenlabor demand has picked up and unemployment has dropped substantially. In contrast to theearlier …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861190
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What Works Best for Getting the Unemployed Back toWork: Employment Services or Small-BusinessAssistance Programmes? Evidence from Romania
Rodriguez-Planas, Nuria - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Recent empirical evidence has found that employment services and small-businessassistance programmes are often successful at getting the unemployed back to work. Oneimportant concern of policy makers is to decide which of these two programmes is moreeffective and for whom...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861856
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Structural Estimation of Search Intensity:Do Non-Employed Workers Search Enough?
Gautier, Pieter; Moraga-González, José Luis; … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
We present a structural framework for the evaluation of public policies intended to increasejob search intensity. Most of the literature defines search intensity as a scalar that influencesthe arrival rate of job offers; here we treat it as the number of job applications that workerssend out....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861860
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Comparative Analysis of Labor Market Dynamics UsingMarkov Processes: An Application to Informality
Bosch, Mariano; Maloney, William - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper discusses a set of statistics for examining and comparing labor market dynamicsbased on the estimation of continuous time Markov transition processes. It then uses these toestablish stylized facts about dynamic patterns of movement using panel data fromArgentina, Brazil and Mexico...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861865
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009486963
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009486964
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009486983
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Unemployment Assistance and Transition to Employment in Argentina
Iturriza, Ana; Bedi, Arjun S.; Sparrow, Robert - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
´s institutional response to the increase in unemployment and poverty triggered by the crisis. The program provided a social safety net …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859542
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Admission Conditions and Graduates' Employability
Alexandre, Fernando; Portela, Miguel; Sá, Carla - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
We evaluate the information content of admission conditions for study programs quality by investigating its relationship with graduates employability. We find that study programs with larger numeri clausi are associated with a higher probability of finding a job. Additionally, compulsory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859627
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Why Does Unemployment Hurt the Employed? Evidence from the Life Satisfaction Gap between the Public and the Private Sector
Luechinger, Simon; Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population in terms of reduced subjective well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005860475