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Labour Market Regulations and Capital Intensity

Cette, Gilbert - 2016

On the basis of a country*industry unbalanced panel data sample for 14 OECD countries and 18 industries covering the years 1988 to 2007, this study proposes an econometric investigation of the effects of the OECD Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) indicator on capital intensity for four...

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Can Unemployment Insurance Spur Entrepreneurial Activity?

Hombert, Johan - 2014

We study a large-scale French reform that provided generous downside insurance for unemployed individuals starting a business. We study whether this reform affects the composition of people who are drawn into entrepreneurship. New firms started in response to the reform are, on average, smaller,...

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Offshoring and Labor Markets

Hummels, David - 2016

We survey the recent empirical literature on the effects of offshoring on wages, employment and displacement. We start with the measurement of offshoring, focusing on the use of imported inputs that could have been produced by the importing firm. We overview key theories related to offshoring...

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Unemployment in the Great Recession : A Comparison of Germany, Canada and the United States

Hoffmann, Florian - 2014

States, Canada, Germany, and several other OECD countries during and after the Great Recession of 2008-09. Unemployment rates … increased moderately in Canada. More recent data also show that, unlike Germany and Canada, the U.S. unemployment rate remains … did not change substantially in Germany, increased and remained at relatively high levels in the United States, and …

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Choosing Among Alternative Nonexperimental Methods for Estimating the Impact of Social Programs : The Case of Manpower Training

Heckman, James J. - 1989

The recent literature on evaluating manpower training programs demonstrates that alternative nonexperimental estimators of the same program produce a array of estimates of program impact. These findings have led to the call for experiments to be used to perform credible program evaluations....

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Labor Markets and Evaluations of Vocational Training Programs in the Public High Schools - Toward a Framework for Analysis

Gustman, Alan L. - 1980

A simplified model is constructed to analyze the role played by vocational training programs In high schools. The model assumes that there are two kinds of educational programs in high schools, vocational and general. It also assumes that there are two types of jobs for high school graduates....

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Employment and Training Programs

Barnow, Burt S. - 2015

This chapter considers means-tested employment and training programs in the United States. We focus in particular on large, means-tested federal programs, including the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA), its successor the Workforce Investment Act (WIA), that program's recent replacement, the...

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A Letter and Encouragement : Does Information Increase Post-Secondary Enrollment of UI Recipients?

Barr, Andrew - 2017

For individuals who experience job loss, enrollment in post-secondary programs may provide an opportunity to improve future employment outcomes. However, decisions to enroll may be hampered by insufficient information about the benefits and costs and the necessary steps and assistance available...

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Economic Reforms and Labor Markets : Policy Issues and Lessons from Chile

Edwards, Sebastian - 2000

taxes. Our interest is to understand to what extent these reforms helped reduce Chile's rate of unemployment from European … decentralization of bargaining increased labor market flexibility and contributed to the reduction of unemployment. Our analysis … suggests that the reform on job security had no significant effect on the aggregate rate of unemployment …

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The Impact of the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation on Job Search and Vacancy Creation

Marinescu, Ioana; Skandalis, Daphne; Zhao, Daniel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC) increased US unemployment benefits … benefits, which supports our identification assumption. First, we find that a 10% increase in unemployment benefits caused a 3 …

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