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Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

This paper provides a critique of the "unemployment invariance hypothesis," according to which the behavior of the … labor market ensures that the long-run unemployment rate is independent of the size of the capital stock, productivity, and … equilibrating mechanisms to ensure unemployment invariance and that other markets may perform part of the equilibrating process as …

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The Dynamic Impact of Immigration on Natives' Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Israel

Cohen-Goldner, Sarit; Paserman, M. Daniele - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

This paper studies the dynamic impact of mass migration from the Former Soviet Union to Israel on natives’ labor market outcomes. Specifically, we attempt to distinguish between the short-run and long-run effects of immigrants on natives’ wages and employment. The transition of immigrants...

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Mass Migration to Israel and Natives’ Transitions from Employment

Cohen-Goldner, Sarit; Paserman, M. Daniele - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

This paper studies the impact of mass migration from the Former Soviet Union to Israel on natives’ probability of moving from employment to non-employment in a segmented labor market that is defined by various combinations of schooling, occupation, industry, district of residence and...

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Labor Market Transparency

Wadensjö, Eskil - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

The labor market differs from other markets in many respects. Most important is that those who supply labor also have to deliver it in person. It means firstly that the work environment and organization of work are important for those who deliver labor, since they are in the work place....

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The Frisch Elasticity in Labor Markets with High Job Turnover

Céspedes Reynaga, Nikita; Rendon, Silvio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Heckman correction for selection into unemployment. We identify the positive slope of the labor supply using firms' size as an …

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Labor Supply Dynamics, Unemployment and Human Capital Investments

Wasmer, Etienne - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

composition of the labor force, between-groups wage inequality and the level of unemployment. The main result is that a labor … labor force, there is higher unemployment among low-experience workers, they do not accumulate enough on-the-job human …

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Household Shocks and Education Investment in Madagascar

Glick, Peter; Sahn, David E.; Walker, Thomas F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper measured the extent to which households in Madagascar adjust children's school attendance in order to cope with exogenous shocks to household income, assets and labour supply. Our analysis was based on a unique data set with 10 years of recall data on school attendance and household...

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The German Labor Market after the Great Recession: Successful Reforms and Future Challenges

Caliendo, Marco; Hogenacker, Jens - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

The reaction of the German labor market to the Great Recession 2008/09 was relatively mild – especially compared to other countries. The reason lies not only in the specific type of the recession – which was favorable for the German economy structure – but also in a series of labor market...

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Documentation IZAΨMOD v3.0: The IZA Policy Simulation Model

Loeffler, Max; Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico; Siegloch, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper describes IZAΨMOD, the policy microsimulation model of the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). The model uses household microdata from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study and firm data from the German linked employer-employee dataset LIAB. IZAΨMOD consists of three components:...

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Beyond Inequality Accounting: Marital Sorting and Couple Labor Supply

Pestel, Nico - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper examines to what extent non-random sorting of spouses affects earnings inequality while explicitly disentangling effects from increasing assortativeness in couple formation from changing patterns of couples' labor supply behavior. Using German micro data, earnings distributions of...

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