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Swedish Labour Market Training and the Duration of Unemployment

Richardson, Katarina; den Berg, Gerard J van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

The vocational employment training program is the most ambitious and expensive training program in Sweden and a cornerstone of labor market policy. We analyze its causal effects on the individual transition rate from unemployment to employment by exploiting variation in the timing of treatment...

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Fixed-Term Contracts and the Duration Distribution of Unemployment

Güell, Maia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

In the mid-1980s, many European countries introduced fixed-term contracts. Since then their labour markets have become more dynamic. This Paper studies the implications of such reforms for the duration distribution of unemployment, with particular emphasis on the changes in the duration...

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The Effect of Location on Finding a Job in the Paris Region

Gobillon, Laurent; Magnac, Thierry; Selod, Harris - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

There are large spatial disparities in unemployment durations across the 1,300 municipalities in the Paris region (Ile-de-France). In order to characterize these imbalances, we estimate a proportional hazard model stratified by municipality on an exhaustive dataset of all unemployment spells...

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Asymmetric Information and List Price Reductions in the Housing Market

de Wit, Erik; van der Klaauw, Bas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

In housing markets with asymmetric information list prices may signal unobserved properties of the house or the seller. Asymmetric information is the starting point of many models for the housing market. In this paper, we estimate the causal effect of list-price reductions to test for the...

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A Comparative Look at Labour Mobility in the Czech Republic : Where Have All the Workers Gone?

Sorm, Vit; Terrell, Katherine - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

In this paper we provide a comparative analysis of the extent and determinants of labour mobility in the Czech Republic … during 1994-1998. Our analysis is motivated by the fact that labour mobility is crucial for an efficient allocation of … experiencing the most mobility and the more positive directions of mobility. The existing problems of inadequate restructuring …

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Does Extending Unemployment Benefits Improve Job Quality?

Nekoei, Arash; Weber, Andrea - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

Contrary to standard search model predictions, prior studies failed to estimate a positive effect of unemployment insurance (UI) on reemployment wages. This paper estimates a positive UI wage effect exploiting an age-based regression discontinuity in Austrian administrative data. A search model...

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Career Progression and Formal versus On-the-Job Training

Adda, Jérôme; Dustmann, Christian; Meghir, Costas; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

We develop a dynamic discrete choice model of training choice, employment and wage growth, allowing for job mobility … estimate this model on a large administrative panel data set which traces labour market transitions, mobility across firms and …

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Great Expectations: Past Wages and Unemployment Durations

Böheim, René; Horvath, Gerard Thomas; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

Decomposing wages into worker and firm wage components, we find that firm-fixed components (firm rents) are sizeable parts of workers' wages. If workers can only imperfectly observe the extent of firm rents in their wages, they might be mislead about the overall wage distribution. Such...

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Does the Public Employment Service Affect Search Effort and Outcomes?

Fougère, Denis; Pradel, Jacqueline; Roger, Muriel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

In this paper, we examine the disincentive effects of the public employment service on the search effort of unemployed workers and on their exit rate from unemployment. For that purpose, we specify a structural search model with fixed and variable costs of search in which unemployed workers...

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Measuring Labour Market Frictions: A Cross-Country Comparison

Ridder, Geert; den Berg, Gerard J van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

In this Paper we define and estimate measures of labour market frictions using data on job durations. We compare different estimation methods and different types of data. We propose and apply an unconditional inference method that can be applied to aggregate duration data. It does not require...

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