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Do Migrants Get Good Jobs in Australia? The Role of Ethnic Networks in Job Search
Mahuteau, Stéphane; Junankar, Pramod N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
We study the role of ethnic networks in migrants’ job search and the quality of jobs they find in the first years of … result of restrictions in welfare eligibility since 1997, we study whether this increases the probability that new migrants … view. However, accounting for their higher employability, new migrants seem to fare better up to a year and half after …
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Labour-Market Institutions and the Dispersion of Wage Earnings
Salverda, Wiemer; Checchi, Daniele - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Considering the contribution of the distribution of individual wages and earnings to that of household incomes we find two separate literatures that should be brought together, and bring 'new institutions' into play. Growing female employment, rising dual-earnership and part-time employment...
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Full Employment: A Distant Dream for Europe
Gill, Indermit; Koettl, Johannes; Packard, Truman - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Today, Europe is a continent of low participation, low employment labor markets. Many observers would like to blame poor employment outcomes on the Euro or on austerity. But these are dangerous distractions from real problems that constitute imperatives for structural reform. There are...
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Youth Unemployment in Belgium: Diagnosis and Key Remedies
Cockx, Bart - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
In Belgium youth unemployment is structurally higher than the European (EU27) average, in particular for the low educated. In this study we set a diagnosis of the main structural factors and advance key remedies. We analyze the system of employment protection, education and passive and active...
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Reassessing Labour Market Reforms: A Critique
Junankar, Pramod N.; Jayanthakumaran, Muhunthan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper provides a critique of Faccini (2014) that allegedly shows that temporary contracts lead to lower unemployment in Europe. Using Faccini's data and his estimation methods, we show that the Fixed Effects estimation results collapse when we make slight alterations in the sample size or...
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Preferences for Employment Protection and the Insider-Outsider Divide
Guillaud, Elvire; Marx, Paul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Insider-outsider theory suggests that in dual labour markets two groups have opposing preferences regarding protection against dismissals: insiders defend employment protection, because it increases their rents. Outsiders see it as a mobility barrier and demand deregulation. Similar divides are...
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What Do Labor Market Institutions Do?
Holmlund, Bertil - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
The past couple of decades have seen a huge increase in research on various labor market institutions. This paper offers a brief overview and discussion of research on the labor market impacts of minimum wages (MW), unemployment insurance (UI), and employment protection legislation (EPL). It is...
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Quit Behavior and the Role of Job Protection
Gielen, Anne C.; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Job protection reduces job turnover by changing firms' hiring and firing decisions. Yet the effect of job protection on workers' quit decisions and post-quit outcomes is still unknown. We present the first evidence using individual panel data from 12 European countries, which differ both in...
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The Impact of Greek Labour Market Regulation on Temporary and Family Employment: Evidence from a New Survey
Anagnostopoulos, Achilleas; Siebert, W. Stanley - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper uses an original dataset for 206 workplaces in Thessaly (Greece), to study consequences of Greece's employment protection law (EPL) and national wage minimum for temporary employment. We find higher temporary employment rates especially among a "grey" market group of workplaces that...
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The Healthy Fright of Losing a Good One for a Bad One
Cristini, Annalisa; Origo, Federica; Pinoli, Sara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
In this paper we study the effect of different degrees of employment protection on absenteeism, paying attention to differences between workers moving from protected jobs to insecure jobs, on the one hand, and workers moving from insecure to secure jobs, on the other hand. Using a large...
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