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providing an employment subsidy to any firm hiring workers from the LM. Eligibility duration varies with the worker's age at … dismissal. We exploit the variability of these provisions to evaluate the impact of extending the duration of eligibility on re-employment …
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compare WIA participants who do and do not receive training. In addition to the usual impacts on earnings and employment, we … estimate impacts on the characteristics of the firms at which participants find employment. We find moderate positive impacts … on employment, earnings and desirable firm characteristics for adults, but not for dislocated workers. Our primary …
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In this paper we analyse the short- and long-run relationship between employment growth, inflation and output growth in … dynamic panel including annual data for 119 countries over the period 1970-2010, and also carry out multivariate Granger … causality tests. The empirical results strongly support the existence of a single cointegrating relationship between employment …
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We investigate the determinants and extent of labor market discrimination toward people with physical disabilities using a large scale field experiment. Applications were randomly sent to 1477 private firms advertising open positions. We find that average callback rates of disabled and...
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collective bargaining, minimum wages, employment protection laws, unemployment insurance (UI), mandated parental leave, and …
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the share of the outsourced workforce is not too large, this wage moderation effect on domestic employment outweighs the … direct substitution effect so that domestic employment increases in unionized firms as outsourcing costs fall. This does not … for employment. However, except for low outsourcing activities, the impact of these policy measures will become smaller as …
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concludes with an empirical application to consumer price inflation in Germany, France and Italy, and re-examines the extent to …
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This paper introduces dynamics in the R&D to innovation and innovation to productivity relationships, which have mostly been estimated on cross-sectional data. It considers four nonlinear dynamic simultaneous equations models that include individual effects and idiosyncratic errors correlated...
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businesses boost the capital stock and the employment rate. No robust link between labour market regulation and MFP and capital … deepening could be established. But looser labour market regulation is found to go hand in hand with higher employment rates …
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The Great Recession brought large increases in unemployment and college enrollment; we explore how changing labor market conditions affected the decision to enroll, focusing on the role of state-specific dimensions of Unemployment Insurance (UI) policy. We measure the enrollment response to...
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