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Estimating the Employer Switching Costs and Wage Responses of Forward-Looking Engineers
Fox, Jeremy - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
market for Swedish engineers from 1970--1990. I use data on the allocation of engineers across a large fraction of Swedish …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005109524
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Effects of Employment Protection on Worker and Job Flows: Evidence from the 1990 Italian Reform
Kugler, Adriana; Pica, Giovanni - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
on worker and job flows. We exploit the fact that this reform increased unjust dismissal costs for firms below 15 … employees, while leaving dismissal costs unchanged for bigger firms, to set up a natural experiment research design. We find … that the increase in dismissal costs decreased accessions and separations for workers in small relative to big firms …
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Fixed-Term Employment Contracts in an Equilibrium Search Model
Alvarez, Fernando; Veracierto, Marcelo - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
This paper analyzes the effects of fixed-term contracts using a version of the Lucas and Prescott island model with undirected search. A fixed-term contract of length J is modeled as a tax on separations of workers with tenure higher than J . While in principle these policies require a very...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005710122
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The Impact of Unemployment Benefit Extensions on Employment: The 2014 Employment Miracle?
Manovskii, Iourii; Hagedorn, Marcus; Mitman, Kurt - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
We measure the effect of unemployment benefit duration on employment. We exploit the variation induced by the decision of Congress in December 2013 not to reauthorize the unprecedented benefit extensions introduced during the Great Recession. Federal benefit extensions that ranged from 0 to 47...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011133502
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Unemployment Benefits and Unemployment in the Great Recession: The Role of Macro Effects
Manovskii, Iourii; Hagedorn, Marcus; Karahan, Fatih; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
We exploit a policy discontinuity at U.S. state borders to identify the labor market implications of unemployment benefit extensions. In contrast to the existing literature that focused on estimating the effects of benefit duration on job search decisions by the unemployed – the micro effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011133516
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Employer-to-Employer Flows in the United States: Estimates Using Linked Employer-Employee Data
Haltiwanger, John; Bjelland, Melissa; Fallick, Bruce; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
We use administrative data linking workers and firms to study employer-to-employer flows. After discussing how to identify such flows in quarterly data, we investigate their basic empirical patterns. We find that the pace of employer-to-employer flows is high, representing about 4 percent of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248793
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Mismatch Unemployment
topa, giorgio; Şahin, Ayşegül; Song, Joseph; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
We develop a framework where mismatch between vacancies and job seekers across sectors translates into higher unemployment by lowering the aggregate job-finding rate. We use this framework to measure the contribution of mismatch to the recent rise in U.S. unemployment by exploiting two sources...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011119819
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Labor Market Polarization Over the Business Cycle
Foote, Christopher Lee; Ryan, Richard W. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
Job losses during the Great Recession were concentrated among middle-skill workers, the same group that over the long run has suffered the most from automation and international trade. How might long-run occupational polarization be related to cyclical changes in middle-skill employment? We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011207907
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The Great Recession, Retirement and Related Outcomes
Gustman, Alan L.; Steinmeier, Thomas L.; Tabatabai, Nahid - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
This paper uses data from the Health and Retirement Study to examine retirement and related labor market outcomes for the Early Boomer cohort, those in their mid-fifties at the onset of the Great Recession. Outcomes are then compared with older cohorts at the same age. The Great Recession...
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The Labor Market Four Years Into the Crisis: Assessing Structural Explanations
Rothstein, Jesse - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
Four years after the beginning of the Great Recession, the labor market remains historically weak. Many observers have concluded that "structural" impediments to recovery bear some of the blame. This paper reviews such structural explanations. I find that there is little evidence supporting...
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