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Why is Old Workers' Labor Market More Volatile? Unemployment Fluctuations over the Life-Cycle
Hairault, Jean-Olivier; Langot, François; Sopraseuth, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Since the last recession, it is usually argued that older workers are less affected by the economic downturn because their unemployment rate rose less than the one of prime-age workers. This view is a myth: older workers are more sensitive to the business cycle. We document volatilities of...
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Indicative and Updated Estimates of the Collective Bargaining Premium in Germany
Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino; Evers, Katalin; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This study provides updated evidence on the union contract differential in Germany using establishment-wide wage data and two estimation strategies. It provides pairwise estimates of the union differential based on separate samples of collective bargaining leavers and joiners vis-à-vis the...
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Unobservable, but Unimportant? The Influence of Personality Traits (and Other Usually Unobserved Variables) for the Evaluation of Labor Market Policies
Caliendo, Marco; Mahlstedt, Robert; Mitnik, Oscar A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Many commonly used treatment effects estimators rely on the unconfoundedness assumption ("selection on observables") which is fundamentally non-testable. When evaluating the effects of labor market policies, researchers need to observe variables that affect both treatment participation and labor...
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Wage Posting or Wage Bargaining? Evidence from the Employers' Side
Brenzel, Hanna; Gartner, Hermann; Schnabel, Claus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
bargaining in the matching process from the employer's side. We show that both modes of wage determination coexist in the German …
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Using Internet Data to Analyse the Labour Market: A Methodological Enquiry
Kureková, Lucia Mýtna; Beblavy, Miroslav; Thum, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
With the growth of the Internet, online job portals have become an important medium for job matching. This paper …
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Equilibrium Unemployment and Retirement
Hairault, Jean-Olivier; Langot, François; Zylberberg, Andre - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
As a preliminary step, we first provide some new empirical evidence that labor market conditions affect retirement decisions at the individual level: unemployed people are more likely to retire. Our main objective in this paper is then to propose an equilibrium unemployment approach to...
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Becker Meets Ricardo: Multisector Matching with Social and Cognitive Skills
McCann, Robert J.; Shi, Xianwen; Siow, Aloysius; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper presents a tractable framework for studying frictionless matching in school, work, and marriage when … communicate and coordinate at lower resource cost. The theory delivers full task specialization in the labor and education markets …, but incomplete specialization in marriage. It also captures well-known matching patterns in each of these sectors …
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An Evaluation of Public-Sector-Sponsored Continuous Vocational Training Programs in East Germany
Lechner, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999
participation in terms of employment probabilities, earnings, and career prospects after the completion of training using a matching …
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Firm-Worker Matching in Industrial Clusters
Figueiredo, Octávio; Guimaraes, Paulo; Woodward, Douglas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
that industrial agglomeration improves the quality of the firm-worker matching process. Our method makes use of recent … multiple sources of observed and unobserved heterogeneity we find little evidence that the quality of matching increases with …
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Impacts of Rural Electrification in Rwanda
Bensch, Gunther; Kluve, Jochen; Peters, Jörg - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Rural electrification is believed to contribute to the achievement of the MDG. In this paper, we investigate electrification impacts on different indicators. We use household data that we collected in Rwanda in villages with and without electricity access. We account for self-selection and...
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