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Dismissal Protection and Worker Flows in Small Establishments
Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan; Bonin, Holger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
Based on a large employer-employee matched data set, the paper investigates the effects of variable enforcement of German dismissal protection legislation on the employment dynamics in small establishments. Specifically, using a difference-in-differences approach, we study the effect of changes...
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Employer Learning and the Returns to Schooling
Bauer, Thomas K.; Haisken-DeNew, John P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
We examine the dynamic role of education and experience as determinants of wages. It is hypothesized that an employee's education is an important signal to the employer initially. Over time, the returns to schooling should decrease with labor market experience and increase with initially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703658
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Individuals' Unemployment Experiences: Heterogeneity and Business Cycle Effects
Kalwij, Adriaan S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
This study examines individuals’ unemployment experiences from the age of 18 up to the age of 35 using a large panel of … administrative records on unemployment related benefit claims of men in the United Kingdom over the past two decades. The main focus … is on the extent to which individuals’ unemployment experiences are affected by regional and skill differences, i …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763923
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Individuals' Unemployment Durations over the Business Cycle
Kalwij, Adriaan S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
Diamond (1994) that an individual’s probability of leaving unemployment decreases with unemployment duration and increases …
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