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Did Post-Enlargement Labor Mobility Help the EU to Adjust During the Great Recession? The Case of Slovakia
Kahanec, Martin; Kureková, Lucia Mýtna - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper evaluates the mobility patterns of Slovaks into the rest of the European Union (EU) following Slovakia's EU … labor market conditions in receiving countries and Slovakia. We show that besides the standard demographic factors …, migration propensity was higher among the unemployed and from the more depressed regions of Slovakia. We conclude that labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959632
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Entrepreneurship from Scratch: Lessons on the Entry Decision into Self-Employment from Transition Economies
Earle, John S.; Sakova, Zuzana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999
This paper exploits the rapid rise in self-employment rates in post-communist Eastern Europe as a valuable "quasi … are used to analyze a 1993 survey of 27,000 adults in six transition economies. Estimated self-employment earnings premia … are positive, and the data imply positive selection into both employee and self-employment status. Structural probit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703823
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Regional Measures of Human Capital in the European Union
Dreger, Christian; Erber, Georg; Glocker, Daniela - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
The accumulation of the human capital stock plays a key role to explain the macroeconomic performance across regions. However, despite the strong theoretical support for this claim, empirical evidence has been not very convincing, probably because of the low quality of the data. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566808
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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
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Output-Employment Relationship across Sectors: A Long- versus Short-Run Perspective
Sahin, Afsin; Tansel, Aysit; Berument, Hakan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper investigates the nature of the output-employment relationship by using the Turkish quarterly data for the … period 1988-2008. Even if we fail to find a long-run relationship between aggregate output and total employment, there are … long-run relationships for the aggregate output with non-agricultural employment and sectoral employment levels for seven …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884236
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Do SBA Loans Create Jobs?
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
.S. affecting firm behavior, but little is known about their outcomes. This paper estimates the effects on employment using a list … years of employment history and other variables. The results imply positive average effects on loan recipient employment of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884334
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Employment Verification Mandates and the Labor Market Outcomes of Likely Unauthorized and Native Workers
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Bansak, Cynthia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
impact that the enactment of various types of E-verify mandates may have on the employment and wages of these two populations …. We find that the enactment of both universal and public-sector only mandates reduce employment of likely unauthorized … workers. Meanwhile, employment verification does not affect naturalized Hispanic workers but increases the employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884349