change. In this paper we estimate a model of labor demand in the construction sector, featuring building constraints, which … display larger elasticities of labor demand in the construction sector with respect to house prices than countries that seem … the whole economy, the elasticity of labor demand with respect to house prices is broadly similar across countries. …

This paper describes IZAΨMOD, the policy microsimulation model of the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). The model …, public transfers. Secondly, behavioral labor supply responses are estimated. The third component distinguishes our model from … most other microsimulation tools. A demand module takes into account possible restrictions of labor demand and identifies …

In this article we study the resilience of the Portuguese labor market, in terms of job flows, employment and wage …, and the labor market segmentation channel. We uncover what we believe is convincing evidence that the severity of credit … net job creation and higher failure rates of firms. Finally, labor market segmentation seems to have favored a stronger …

height on life-time labor market outcomes. The use of twin data allows us to remove otherwise unobserved ability and other …