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Employment Fluctuations and Dynamics of the Aggregate Average Wage in Poland 1996-2003

Myck, Michal; Morawski, Leszek; Mycielski, Jerzy - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

The aggregate average wage is often used as an indicator of economic performance and welfare, and as such often serves as a benchmark for changes in the generosity of public transfers and for wage negotiations. Yet if economies experience a high degree of (nonrandom) fluctuation in employment...

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Atypical Work and Employment Continuity

Addison, John T.; Surfield, Christopher J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Atypical employment arrangements such as agency temporary work and contracting have long been criticized as offering more precarious and unstable work than regular employment. Using data from two datasets – the CAEAS and the NLSY79 – we determine whether workers who take such jobs rather...

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Does Atypical Work Help the Jobless? Evidence from a CAEAS/CPS Cohort Analysis

Addison, John T.; Surfield, Christopher J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

Atypical employment, such as temporary, on-call, and contract work, has been found disproportionately to attract the jobless. But there is no consensus in the literature as to the labour market consequences of such job choice by unemployed individuals. Using data from the Current Population...

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The Use of Alternative Work Arrangements by the Jobless: Evidence from the CAEAS/CPS

Addison, John T.; Surfield, Christopher J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

. When we evaluate the use of AWAs against unemployment, there is also evidence that the jobless are entering AWAs as …

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What Have We Learned About the Employment Effects of Severance Pay? Further Iterations of Lazear et al.

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

-varying labor market institutions. While the positive effect of severance pay on unemployment garners some support, there is no real …In this study we examine the contribution of severance pay to employment and unemployment development using data on … collective bargaining coordination, the role of institutions is also more muted than suggested in the literature. …

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Does the Quality of Industrial Relations Matter for the Macro Economy? A Cross-Country Analysis Using Strikes Data

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

indicator – and our macro performance outcome is the unemployment rate. Independent of the role of other institutions, good … industrial relations do seem to matter: greater strike volume is associated with higher unemployment. Holding country effects …

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The Beveridge Curve

Yashiv, Eran - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

. The Beveridge curve depicts the steady state of the model, whereby inflows into unemployment are equal to the outflows …

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The Economics of Employment Protection

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

mainly on dismissals protection, distinguishing between the themes of employment and unemployment development and labor … market dynamics proper. Our discussion of employment and unemployment largely deals with the effect of employment protection …

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Safety Net Still in Transition: Labour Market Incentive Effects of Extending Social Support in Poland

Haan, Peter; Myck, Michal - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Many aspects of the economic transition which started in 1989 in Poland are by now complete. However, the route Polish governments have so far taken concerning the system of support for low-income families still implies very different poverty alleviation schemes compared to those found in many...

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Dynamics of Poor Health and Non-Employment

Haan, Peter; Myck, Michal - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

While there is little doubt that the probability of poor health increases with age, and that less healthy people face a more difficult situation on the labour market, the precise relationship between facing the risks of health deterioration and labour market instability is not well understood....

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