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Structural Labor Market Changes in France
Estevão, Marcello; Nargis, Nigar - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
France posted remarkable gains in employment in the second half of the 1990s, suggesting that, beyond cyclical factors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233805
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IAB Employment Subsample 1975-1995 Opportunities for Analysis Provided by the Anonymised Subsample
Bender, Stefan; Haas, Anette; Klose, Christoph - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
The IAB employment subsample is now available for researchers in a third, anonymised version. Following the so …-called basic file and the regional file from the IAB employment subsample, which encompassed the years 1975 to 1990, the actualized … the period 1992 to 1995. Therefore, the IAB employment subsample is equipped with data of one percent of all employees …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822748
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Labor Market Outcomes of Immigrants and Non-Citizens in the EU: An East-West Comparison
Kahanec, Martin; Zaiceva, Anzelika - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
The starkly different histories and institutions in the eastern and western member states of the European Union (EU) suggest different roles of being non-native in these two regions. In this paper we study the roles of foreign origin and citizenship in the comparative East-West perspective. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763759
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The Minimum Wage from a Two-Sided Perspective
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective … incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that sufficiently low minimum wages may do no harm to employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011103270
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Surviving the Turbulence Is Not Enough: Can Côte d'Ivoire Flourish Again?
Constant, Amelie F.; Tien, Bienvenue N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Côte d'Ivoire is the world’s largest producer and exporter of cocoa beans, it accounts for 40% of the WAEMU's output, and 11% of its population are immigrant workers. Any political instability in the country will not only affect the domestic economy, but it will also affect the international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009294829
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Regional Equilibrium Unemployment Theory at the Age of the Internet
Lutgen, Vanessa; Van der Linden, Bruno - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper studies equilibrium unemployment in a two-region economy where homogeneous workers and jobs are free to move and the housing market clears. Because of the Internet, searching for a job in another region without first migrating there is nowadays much simpler than in the past....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010720081
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Stature and Life-Time Labor Market Outcomes: Accounting for Unobserved Differences
Böckerman, Petri; Vainiomäki, Jari - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We use twin data matched to register-based individual information on earnings and employment to examine the effect of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884131
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Minimum Wage: Does It Improve Welfare in Thailand?
Del Carpio, Ximena; Messina, Julián; Sanz-de-Galdeano, Anna - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We study the causal impact of the minimum wage on employment and welfare in Thailand using a difference …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884132
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Minimum Wages and Employment in China
Fang, Tony; Lin, Carl - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
and a longitudinal household survey from 16 representative provinces to estimate the employment effects of minimum wage …-level data, we present evidence that minimum wage changes have significant adverse effects on employment in the Eastern and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884148
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Using Spatial Econometric Techniques to Analyze the Joint Employment Decisions of Spouses
Kalenkoski, Charlene M.; Lacombe, Donald J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Studies of the joint time-use decisions of spouses have relied on joint estimation of time-use equations, sometimes assuming correlated errors across spouses' equations and sometimes directly examining the effects of one spouse's time use on another's, relying on panel data or instrumental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884183