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Do Digital Skill Certificates Help New Workers Enter the Market? Evidence from an Online Labour Platform
Kässi, Otto - 2019
We study the effects of a voluntary skill certification scheme in an online freelancing labour market. We show that obtaining skill certificates increases freelancers' earnings. This effect is not driven by increased freelancer productivity but by decreased employer uncertainty. The increase in...
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Location choice and employment decisions : a comparison of German and Swedish multinationals
Becker, Sascha; Ekholm, Karolina; Jaeckle, Robert; … - 2005
strongest with respect to affiliate employment in Western Europe. A one percent larger wage gap between Germany and locations in …
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Unemployment in the European Union: Institutions, prices, and growth
Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Héctor; Snower, Dennis J. - 2004
This paper presents a reappraisal of unemployment movements in the European Union. Our analysis is based on the chain … reaction theory of unemployment, which focuses on (a) the interaction among labor market adjustment processes, (b) the … growth drivers. Estimating a system of labor market equations for a panel of EU countries, we derive the dynamic unemployment …
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Labour Market Institutions and the Employment Intensity of Output Growth - An International Comparison
Rottmann, Horst; Flaig, Gebhard - 2021
This paper deals with the effects of labour market institutions on labour market performance. We analyse as an indicator for the labour intensity of output growth the employment threshold (the minimum growth rate of output necessary to keep employment constant). We show for a sample of 17 OECD...
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Labor Market Hardships and Preferences for Public Sector Employment and Employers : Evidence from Russia
Jin, Olivia; Pyle, William - 2021
insecurity, experiences with wage arrears, and spells of unemployment all increase the attractiveness of work in the public …
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The Beveridge Curve and Labour Market Flows - a Reinterpretation
Gottfries, Nils - 2019
unemployment is high. Using monthly panel data for local labour markets in Sweden we find no (or only weak) evidence that high … unemployment makes it easier to fill vacancies. Instead, there are few vacancies when unemployment is high because there is a low … cyclical behaviour of stocks and flows in the labour market also without search frictions. In periods of high unemployment …
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Coworker Networks and the Labor Market Outcomes of Displaced Workers : Evidence from Portugal
Garcia-Louzao, Jose; Silva, Marta - 2023
The use of social contacts in the labor market is widespread. This paper investigates the impact of personal connections on hiring probabilities and re-employment outcomes of displaced workers in Portugal. We rely on rich matched employer-employee data to define personal connections that arise...
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Labor Markets During the Covid-19 Crisis : A Preliminary View
Coibion, Olivier - 2020
implied by new unemployment claims: we estimate 20 million lost jobs by April 8th, far more than jobs lost over the entire … rise in the unemployment rate over the corresponding period to be surprisingly small, only about 2 percentage points. Third …
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Scars of Recessions in a Rigid Labor Market
Cockx, Bart; Ghirelli, Corinna - 2015
We study the impact of graduating in a recession in Flanders (Belgium), i.e. in a rigid labor market. In the presence of a high minimum wage, a typical recession hardly influences the hourly wage of low educated men, but reduces working time and earnings by about 4.5% up to twelve years after...
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We Were the Robots : Automation and Voting Behavior in Western Europe
Anelli, Massimo - 2019
We investigate the impact of robot adoption on electoral outcomes in 14 Western European countries, between 1993 and 2016. We employ both official election results at the district level and individual-level voting data, combined with party ideology scores from the Manifesto Project. We measure...
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