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Do Labor Market Policies Have Displacement Effects? Evidence from a Clustered Randomized Experiment
Crépon, Bruno; Duflo, Esther; Gurgand, Marc; Rathelot, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
This paper reports the results from a randomized experiment designed to evaluate the direct and indirect (displacement) impacts of job placement assistance on the labor market outcomes of young, educated job seekers in France. We use a two-step design. In the first step, the proportions of job...
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Do On-Line Labor Market Intermediaries Matter? The Impact of AlmaLaurea on the University-to-Work Transition
Bagues, Manuel F.; Labini, Mauro Sylos - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
outcomes holds, AlmaLaurea reduces the individual unemployment probability and improves matching quality. Interestingly, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005085356
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Prospective Analysis of a Wage Subsidy for Cape Town Youth
Levinsohn, James; Pugatch, Todd - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
Recognizing that a credible estimate of a wage subsidy's impact requires a model of the labor market that itself … generates high unemployment in equilibrium, we estimate a structural search model that incorporates both observed heterogeneity … and measurement error in wages. Using the model to examine the impact of a wage subsidy, we find that a R1000/month wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009223326
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New measures of the costs of unemployment: Evidence from the subjective well-being of 3.3 million Americans
Helliwell, John F.; Huang, Haifang - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
Using two large US surveys, we estimate the effects of unemployment on the subjective well-being of the unemployed and … the rest of the population. For the unemployed, the non-pecuniary costs of unemployment are several times as large as … still employed, a one percentage point increase in local unemployment has an impact on well-being roughly equivalent to a …
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Why and Wherefore of Increased Scientific Collaboration
Freeman, Richard B.; Ganguli, Ina; Murciano-Goroff, Raviv - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
This paper examines international and domestic collaborations using data from an original survey of corresponding authors and Web of Science data of articles that had at least one US coauthor in the fields of Particle and Field Physics, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, and Biotechnology and...
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The Role of Teacher Quality in Retention and Hiring: Using Applications-to-Transfer to Uncover Preferences of Teachers and Schools
Wyckoff, James; Boyd, Donald; Lankford, Hamilton; Loeb, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
Many large urban school districts are rethinking their personnel management strategies, often giving increased control to schools in the hiring of teachers, reducing, for example, the importance of seniority. If school hiring authorities are able to make good decisions about whom to hire, these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008631108
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An Evaluation of the Swedish Active Labor Market Policy: New and Received Wisdom
Forslund, Anders; Krueger, Alan B. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1994
programs, mobility bonuses, and unemployment benefits. Using county-level data, we provide new evidence that public relief … regional evolutions of employment and unemployment in Sweden and the U.S. Lastly, we present cross-country analysis for 1993 … positively associated with the national unemployment rate. …
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Trade Sensitivity, Technology, and Labor Displacement
Ruhm, Christopher; Addison, John T.; Fox, Douglas A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1996
We study the relationship between international trade, technology, and the probability and consequences of job displacement, using data on displaced workers as well as those at risk of job dislocation for 1984-86 and 1989-91. Workers employed in industries with elevated import shares and high...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005774654
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Protective or Counter-Productive? European Labor Market Institutions and the Effect of Immigrants on EU Natives
Angrist, Joshua; Kugler, Adriana - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2001
We estimate the effect of immigrant flows on native employment in Western Europe, and then ask whether the employment consequences of immigration vary with institutions that affect labor market flexibility. Reduced flexibility may protect natives from immigrant competition in the near term, but...
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Individual Rights and Collective Agents: The Role of Old and New Workplace Institution in the Regulation of Labor Markets
Weil, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2003
Implementation of workplace policies--whether through enforcement of laws or administration of programs--raises the question of the interaction between institutions created to carry out laws and the activities of workplace based agents that directly (e.g. unions) or indirectly (e.g. insurance...
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