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Kugler, Adriana D. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

Many workers believe that personal contacts are crucial for obtaining jobs in high-wage sectors. On the other hand, firms in high-wage sectors report using employee referrals because they help provide screening and monitoring of new employees. This Paper develops a matching model that can...

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Hiring And Firing Costs, Adverse Selection And The Persistence Of Unemployment

Kugler, Adriana D.; Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

In this paper, we present a matching model with adverse selection that explains why flows into and out of unemployment …

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A Tale of Two Neighbour Economies: Labour Market Dynamics in Spain and Portugal

Castillo, Sonsoles; Dolado, Juan J.; Jimeno, Juan F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

Spain and Portugal are two neighbour economies which share many characteristics. Spanish unemployment is more than … double Portuguese unemployment, however. In this chapter we resort to Structural Vector Autoregression (SVAR) techniques to …, their effects on unemployment were much more long-lasting in Spain than in Portugal. …

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Recent Trends in Occupational Segregation by Gender: A Look Across the Atlantic

Dolado, Juan J.; Felgueroso, Florentino; Jimeno, Juan F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

In this Paper, we analyse the recent patterns of occupational segregation by gender in the EU countries vis-á-vis the US. Given the lack of long time-series data on homogeneous LFS data about occupations and educational attainments for male and female workers in EU countries, we use a single...

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Regional Unemployment Persistence (Spain, 1976-94)

Bentolila, Samuel; Jimeno, Juan F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

This paper examines the degree of persistence of regional relative unemployment. A theoretical model is built to … such persistence. The model is used to account for the observed degree of persistence of regional relative unemployment in …

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Factor Adjustments after Deregulation: Panel Evidence from Colombian Plants

Eslava, Marcela; Haltiwanger Jr, John C; Kugler, Adriana D. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

In this paper, we analyse employment and capital adjustments using a panel of plants from Colombia. We allow for nonlinear adjustment of employment to reflect not only adjustment costs of labour but also adjustment costs of capital, and vice-versa. Using data from the Annual Manufacturing...

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Effects of Employment Protection and Product Market Regulations on the Italian Labour Market

Kugler, Adriana D.; Pica, Giovanni - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

Labour market regulations have often being blamed for high and persistent unemployment in Europe, but evidence on their …

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Effects of Employment Protection on Worker and Job Flows: Evidence from the 1990 Italian Reform

Kugler, Adriana D.; Pica, Giovanni - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

This paper uses the Italian Social Security employer-employee panel to study the effects of the Italian reform of 1990 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...

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The Fall in Consumption from Being Unemployed in Spain and Portugal

Castillo, Sonsoles; Dolado, Juan J.; Jimeno, Juan F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

In Portugal real wage flexibility, at the macroeconomic level, is noticeably higher, while unemployment duration is … lower, when compared to Spain. This suggests that the hardship of being unemployed is higher in Portugal. Unemployment … benefits and family insurance, which are the main buffer against unemployment and have played different roles in both countries …

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On-the-Job Search in a Matching Model with Heterogeneous Jobs and Workers

Dolado, Juan J.; Jansen, Marcel; Jimeno, Juan F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

This paper considers a matching model with heterogeneous jobs (unskilled and skilled) and workers (low- and high-educated) which allows for on-the-job search by mismatched workers. The latter are high-educated workers who transitorily accept unskilled jobs and continue to search for skilled...

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