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Testing the Importance of Search Frictions, Matching, and Reservation Prestige Through Randomized Experiments in Jordan
Groh, Matthew; McKenzie, David; Shammout, Nour; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Unemployment rates for tertiary-educated youth in Jordan are high, as is the duration of unemployment. Two randomized … based on educational backgrounds and psychometric assessments. Although over 1,000 matches were made, youth rejected the …, unemployed, youth to apply for jobs of varying levels of prestige. We find youth apply to only a small proportion of the job …
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Estimating Workforce Disposal in the Italian Labour Market
Contini, Bruno; Grand, Elisa - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Italy's labour market suffers from a serious pathology, in addition to the increasing precariousness of the young workforce common to all EU member countries: flows from regular employment to non-employment are very often dead-ends. A vast number of young individuals who lose their job only a...
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Reassessing Labour Market Reforms: A Critique
Junankar, Pramod N.; Jayanthakumaran, Muhunthan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper provides a critique of Faccini (2014) that allegedly shows that temporary contracts lead to lower unemployment in Europe. Using Faccini's data and his estimation methods, we show that the Fixed Effects estimation results collapse when we make slight alterations in the sample size or...
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Labour Market Reforms and Outcomes in Estonia
Brixiova, Zuzana; Égert, Balázs - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
The unemployment rate in Estonia rose sharply in 2010 to one of the highest levels in the EU, after the country entered a severe recession in 2008. While the rate declined relatively rapidly in 2011, it remained high especially for the less educated. In 2009, the Employment Contract Law relaxed...
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Active Labor Market Policy Effects for Women in Europe: A Survey
Bergemann, Annette; Berg, Gerard J. van den - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
We survey the recent literature on the effects of active labor market policies on individual labor market outcomes like employment and income, for adult female individuals without work in European countries. We consider skill-training programs, monitoring and sanctions, job search assistance,...
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Credible Research Designs for Minimum Wage Studies
Allegretto, Sylvia; Dube, Arindrajit; Reich, Michael; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We assess alternative research designs for minimum wage studies. States in the U.S. with larger minimum wage increases differ from others in business cycle severity, increased inequality and polarization, political economy, and regional distribution. The resulting time-varying heterogeneity...
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Credit Constraints and the Persistence of Unemployment
Dromel, Nicolas; Kolakez, Elie; Lehmann, Etienne - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
In this paper, we argue that credit market imperfections impact not only the level of unemployment, but also its persistence. For this purpose, we first develop a theoretical model based on the equilibrium matching framework of Mortensen and Pissarides (1999) and Pissarides (2000) where we...
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A Vibrant European Labor Market with Full Employment
Ritzen, Jo; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We sketch a visionary strategy for Europe in which full employment is quickly regained by 2020, where income inequality is reduced and the economies are more sustainable. We name this scenario "vibrant." It is contrasted with what would happen if present policies continue within the European...
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From the Shortage of Jobs to the Shortage of Skilled Workers: Labor Markets in the EU New Member States
Rutkowski, Jan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Labor markets in the transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe underwent a dramatic transformation. Notably, this transformation took place within just a few years. Until the mid-2000s job opportunities were scarce and unemployment was high. But since then labor demand has picked up and...
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Connecting the Disconnected: Improving Education and Employment Outcomes Among Disadvantaged Youth
Edelman, Peter B.; Holzer, Harry J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
In this paper we will briefly review recent trends in employment outcomes for disadvantaged youth, focusing … education and employment outcomes, both among in-school youth who are at risk of dropping out and becoming disconnected as well … as out-of-school youth who have already done so; 2) Policies to increase earnings and incent more labor force …
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