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We test for the signalling hypothesis versus human capital theory using the Wiles test (1974) in a country which has experienced a dramatic increase in the supply of skills. For this purpose, we construct a job match index based on the usefulness of the school-provided skills and the relevance...
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This paper examines the wage earnings of fully-employed previous refugee immigrants in Sweden. Using administrative … employer-employee data from 1990 onwards, about 100,000 refugee immigrants who arrived between 1980 and 1996 and were granted … overperformance is due to female refugee immigrants, who have-relative to their endowment-higher wages than comparable native …
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In emerging market economies, young people feel like little boats in the ocean, due to the low and uncertain macroeconomic context. In the present study, we examine the school-to-work transition in Turkey over the period 2014-2017 by using a monthly dataset. As most emerging market economies,...
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The Great Recession has indicated that firms' leverage and access to finance are important for hiring and firing decisions. It is now empirically established that bank lending is correlated to employment losses when credit conditions deteriorate. We provide further evidence of this drawing on a...
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across sectors and occupations. Such low mobility can be explained by low returns to job changes as well as by market … generosity of unemployment benefits will not significantly boost outflows from the unemployment state. These findings support … explanations for low mobility in transitional economies, which are based on informational failures, and high costs of moving from …
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A common explanation of low unemployment rates in the Czech Republic (CR) is the stance of active labour market … unemployment into employment. …
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coexistence of strict employment security regulations, significant job-to-job shifts and high long-term unemployment rates in …
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Employment protection legislations (EPL) are not enforced uniformly across the board. There are a number of exemptions to the coverage of these provisions: firms below a given threshold scale and workers with temporary contracts are not subject to the most restrictive provisions. This...
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unemployment differentials. Nonetheless, we find that internal migration is sensitive to regional unemployment and income … create out- or in-migration flows. The relatively high degree of internal mobility coupled with the low sensitivity of … migration flows to the local unemployment rate of distant regions might explain why migration flows tends not to generate …
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Social cohesion and labor mobility both have the same objective and do not need to be in conflict. They are about … cooperating among individuals and societies in order to survive and prosper. Social cohesion can benefit from labour mobility …: Labour mobility is economically beneficial for migrants and natives. Attitudes towards migrants are more friendly if they …
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