In this study we examine the contribution of severance pay to employment and unemployment development using data on …-varying labor market institutions. While the positive effect of severance pay on unemployment garners some support, there is no real … indication of adverse effects for (the three) other employment outcomes identified here. Moreover, with the possible exception of …

This paper provides a critique of the "unemployment invariance hypothesis," according to which the behavior of the … labor market ensures that the long-run unemployment rate is independent of the size of the capital stock, productivity, and … equilibrating mechanisms to ensure unemployment invariance and that other markets may perform part of the equilibrating process as …

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 …

Using two Dutch labour force surveys, employment assimilation of immigrants is examined. We observe marked differences … compared to other non-western immigrants but they still suffer from high unemployment. The study also documents that the …

economic turmoil in 1992-1995. Despite the catastrophic fall in GDP employment contracted only marginally. This flexibility has … been achieved mainly through the informalization of employment, and through the reallocation of labor towards small … of the Georgian labor force relies on self-employment as the primary means to earn an income. For some, this is an avenue …

reacts to regional employment shocks in a variety of cases. Shock responses are channelled via changes in unemployment …' relative position persists: those with the highest unemployment rates in 1996 were also in the worse position in 2012. To …, unemployment and spatial mobility become the central ones in recession. We also provide evidence of real wage rigidities in both …

tracing key labor market indicators such as employment, unemployment, labor force participation, working hours, and real wages …

This paper considers the labor market assimilation of immigrants in terms of earnings and employment (employment … probability, unemployment probability, and hours worked per week). Using the 2006 Australian Census of Population and Housing the … for other origins. Among women, the pattern of assimilation in earnings and employment is more positive than among their …

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 …

This paper investigates the relationship between sectoral growth patterns and employment outcomes. A broad cross …-country analysis reveals that in middle-income countries, employment responds more to growth in less productive and more labor …-intensive sectors. Employment in middle-income countries is susceptible to a resource curse, and grows rapidly in response to …