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Scarring Effects of Unemployment
Nilsen, Øivind Anti - 2011
labor force. A nearest-neighbor propensity score matching method is applied to make the treatment group (the unemployed) and …
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Persistence in Youth Unemployment
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2012
This paper examines the degree of persistence of youth unemployment (total, male and female) in twenty-four countries by using two alternative measures: the AR coefficient and the fractional differencing parameter, based on short- and long-memory processes respectively. The evidence suggests...
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Screening Through Activation : Differential Effects of a Youth Activation Programme
Hall, Caroline - 2017
We study the dual role of active labour market policies: First, ALMP may perform a screening role by increasing job-finding rates among individuals with good labour market prospects, already prior to programme participation. Second, actual program participation may help individuals with poor...
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Youth Unemployment in Europe : Persistence and Macroeconomic Determinants
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2014
This paper investigates the statistical features and the macroeconomic determinants of youth unemployment in a number of European countries. First, it explores its short and long memory properties by estimating both autoregressive and fractional integration models. This type of analysis sheds...
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Scarring Effects of Remaining Unemployed for Long-Term Unemployed School-Leavers
Cockx, Bart; Picchio, Matteo - 2021
This study investigates whether and to what extent further unemployment experience for youths who are already long-term unemployed imposes a penalty on subsequent labor market outcomes. We propose a flexible method for analyzing the effect on wages aside of transitions from unemployment and...
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Returns to Tenure or Seniority?
Buhai, Sebastian - 2008
This study documents two empirical regularities, using data for Denmark and Portugal. First, workers who are hired last, are the first to leave the firm (Last In, First Out; LIFO). Second, workers' wages rise with seniority (= a worker's tenure relative to the tenure of her colleagues). We seek...
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Earnings Instability and Tenure
Cappellari, Lorenzo; Leonardi, Marco - 2021
We study the effect of tenure on earnings instability in Italy using two alternative estimation strategies. First we use a descriptive measure of earnings instability and fixed effects regressions. Second, we develop a formal model of earnings dynamics distinguishing permanent from transitory...
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Tenure and Experience Effects on Wages : A Theory
Burdett, Ken; Coles, Melvyn G. - 2021
This paper investigates equilibria in a labor market where firms post wage/tenure contracts and risk-averse workers, both employed and unemployed, search for better paid job opportunities. Different firms typically offer different contracts. Workers accumulate general human capital through...
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Regional Effects on Employer-Provided Training : Evidence from Apprenticeship Training in Switzerland
Muehlemann, Samuel - 2006
apprentices affects the training decision positively through an improved matching process. In addition, the expected ability of … training decisions of firms. Using a representative firm-level data set, the results show that firms are less likely to offer … training if the number of competing firms situated in the same geographical area is high. Furthermore, the supply of potential …
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The Effects of Youth Labor Market Reforms : Evidence from Italian Apprenticeships
Albanese, Andrea - 2017
This paper estimates the causal effects of the 2003 reform of the Italian apprenticeship contract which aimed at … introducing the “dual system” in Italy by allowing on-the-job training. The reform also increased the age eligibility of the … apprenticeship contract and introduced a minimum floor to apprentices' wages. Using administrative data and balancing techniques we …
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