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Fixed-term and permanent employment contracts : theory and evidence
Cao, Shutao; Shao, Enchuan; Silos, Pedro - 2010
This paper constructs a theory of the coexistence of fixed-term and permanent employment contracts in an environment … and firing rules. Using matched employer-employee data from Canada, we estimate the wage equations from the model. The … account. -- employment protection ; unemployment ; dual labor markets ; wage inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003998033
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Working time reductions at the end of the career : do they prolong the time spent in employment?
Albanese, Andrea; Cockx, Bart; Thuy, Yannick - 2016
In this paper we study the effects on the survival rate in employment of a scheme that facilitates gradual retirement … (possibly selective) pathways to early retirement. We find that participation in the scheme initially prolongs employment, as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011414625
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Age, wage and productivity
Ours, Jan C. van; Stoeldraijer, Lenny - 2010
Previous empirical studies on the effect of age on productivity and wages find contradicting results. Some studies find that if workers grow older there is an increasing gap between productivity and wages, i.e. wages increase with age while productivity does not or does not increase at the same...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003939940
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Age discrimination across the business cycle
Dahl, Gordon B.; Knepper, Matthew - 2020
filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), along with an objective measure of the quality of those …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012252490
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What can go wrong will go wrong : birthday effects and early tracking in the German school system
Jürges, Hendrik (contributor);  … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003499586
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Institutional reforms and an incredible rise in old age employment
Riphahn, Regina T.; Schrader, Rebecca - 2018
behind the recent incredible rise in old age employment in Germany. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011929632
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Recessions and occupational match quality : the role of age, gender, and education
Addison, John T.; Chen, Liwen; Ozturk, Orgul Demet - 2020
Although the adverse labor market effects of economic recessions have been well documented, a notable omission in the literature is how recessions impact workers’ job match quality. This paper considers the short and longer-term losses in productivity associated with the job changing brought...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012238463
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An investment-and-marriage model with differential fecundity
Zhang, Hanzhe - 2019
I build an equilibrium investment-and-marriage model to explain stylized facts about education, income, and marriage for Americans born in the twentieth century that had not been explained in a unified way. The most novel finding is a theoretical explanation for why women attend college at a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012110230
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Benefit entitlement and the labor market : evidence from a large-scale policy change
Lalive, Rafael; Zweimüller, Josef - 2002
-experimental situation from which a lot can be learned about the impact of unemployment insurance rules on the dynamics of employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409442
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Reforms of an early retirement pathway in Germany and their labor market effects
Riphahn, Regina T.; Schrader, Rebecca - 2021
We investigate the unemployment pathway to retirement in Germany and study the causal effects of two early retirement reforms. Reform 1 (NRA) increased normal retirement age stepwise from 60 to 65. Simultaneously, it became possible to use early retirement with benefit discounts. Reform 2 (ERA)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012697080