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Low-Skilled Unemployment, Biased Technological Shocks and Job Competition
Pierrard, Olivier; Sneessens, Henri R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
The unemployment rise in EU countries has been particularly strong for low-skilled workers. This observation has often been explained in terms of biased technical change and relative wage rigidities. More attention has been paid recently to an alternative mechanism, the crowding-out of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703284
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Flexibility vs. Rigidity: Does Spain have the worst of both Worlds?
Saint-Paul, Gilles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
In this paper we study the structure of labor market flows in Spain and compare them with France and the US. We characterize a number of empirical regularities and stylized facts. One striking result is that the job finding rate is slightly higher than in France, while the jon loss rate is much...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703292
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Sectoral Explanations of Employment in Europe: The Role of Services
Antonello D’Agostino; Serafini, Roberta; Ward, Melanie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
This paper investigates the determinants of the service sector employment share in the EU- 15, for the aggregate service sector, four sub-sectors and twelve service sector branches. Recently, both Europe and the US have experienced an increase in the share of servicerelated jobs in total...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763842
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Why Do Russian Firms Use Fixed-Term and Agency Work Contracts?
Smirnykh, Larisa; Wörgötter, Andreas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This study looks into the use of fixed term contracts and agency work in Russia during and shortly after the crisis 2009–10 with the help of an enterprise survey. The results of variance analysis show that the use of fixed-term or agency work contracts is not uniform across sectors, size and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884399
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Zukünftige Fachkräfteengpässe in Deutschland?
Dräger, Vanessa - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Gefährdet der demographische Wandel den ökonomischen Wohlstand in Deutschland oder reicht das Arbeitsvolumenangebot aus, um den Arbeitsvolumenbedarf zu decken? In diesem Beitrag wird mittels Wachstumszerlegung der Bedarf für ein fortgeschriebenes BIP-pro-Kopf ermittelt. Dieser wird dem...
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The US Labor Market in 2030: A Scenario Based on Current Trends in Supply and Demand
Edwards, Rebecca; Lange, Fabian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
the workforce will grow rapidly, the supply response will not suffice to offset the trend in demand towards skilled …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010960128
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How the Demand for Labor May Adapt to the Availability of Labor: A Preliminary Exploration with Historical Data
Duleep, Harriet; Liu, Xingfei - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
This note presents and tests a general model to help explain why the demand for labor adapts to the availability of … number of entrants to the labor force would lower the cost of hiring and increase employment demand at any given wage rate … is predicted for current workers because demand for labor increases as the cost of hiring decreases. Failure to taken …
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Who Suffers the Penalty? A Panel Data Analysis of Earnings Gaps in Vietnam
Nguyen, Huu Chi; Nordman, Christophe Jalil; Roubaud, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
In spite of its predominant economic weight in developing countries, little is known about the informal sector earnings structure compared to that of the formal sector. Taking advantage of the VHLSS dataset in Vietnam, in particular its three wave panel data (2002, 2004, 2006), we assess the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212747
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Excess Worker Turnover and Fixed-Term Contracts: Causal Evidence in a Two-Tier System
Centeno, Mario; Novo, Alvaro A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Portuguese firms engage in intense reallocation, most employers simultaneously hire and separate from workers, resulting in high excess worker turnover flows. These flows are constrained by the employment protection gap between open-ended and fixed-term contracts. We explore a reform that...
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One Way the Demand for Labor May Adapt to the Availability of Labor
Duleep, Harriet - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper presents and tests a model that may partially explain why the demand for labor adapts to the availability of … the cost of hiring and increase employment demand at any given wage rate. Hence, a change in the labor force – such as the … addition of women or immigrants – does not increase unemployment as much as is predicted for current workers because demand for …
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