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Temporary employment, job flows and productivity : a tale of two reforms
Cappellari, Lorenzo; Dell'Aringa, Carlo; Leonardi, Marco - 2011
We investigate the effects of two reforms of temporary employment using panel data on Italian firms. We exploit variation in their implementation across regions and sectors for identification. We find that the reform of apprenticeship contracts increased job turnover and induced the substitution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009230787
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The political economy of two-tier reforms of employment protection in Europe
Ochel, Wolfgang (contributor) - 2008
implemented in Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands and Sweden. The paper seeks to show why two-tier reforms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003790764
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Temporary work in turbulent times : the Swedish experience
Holmlund, Bertil; Storrie, Donald W. - 2002
Sweden has experienced a substantial increase in temporary work over the 1990s, with most of the rise occurring during a severe macroeconomic recession with mass unemployment. By the early 1990s, workers on fixed-term contracts accounted for 10 percent of the number of employees; by the end of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409135
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Reduction of employment protection in Europe : a comparative fuzzy-set analysis
Ochel, Wolfgang; Rohwer, Anja - 2009
by relaxing it for temporary jobs. These countries are Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003897340
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The structure of the permanent job wage premium : evidence from Europe
Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2013
Using longitudinal data on individuals from the European Community Household Panel for thirteen countries during 1995-2001, I investigate the wage premium for permanent jobs relative to temporary jobs. For men, the wage premium for a permanent job is lower for older workers and native born...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010223394
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How effective are hiring subsidies to reduce long-term unemployment among prime-aged jobseekers? : evidence from Belgium
Desiere, Sam; Cockx, Bart - 2021
Hiring subsidies are widely used to create (stable) employment for the long-term unemployed. This paper exploits the abolition of a hiring subsidy targeted at long-term unemployed jobseekers over 45 years of age in Belgium to evaluate its effectiveness in the short and medium run. Based on a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012625877
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From local to global : external validity in a fertility natural experiment
Dehejia, Rajeev H.; Pop-Eleches, Christian; Samii, Cyrus - 2015
experiment (the effect of boy-boy or girl-girl as the first two children on incremental fertility and mothers’ labor force …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011309525
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More schooling, more children? : compulsory schooling and fertility in Europe
Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nicole; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2014
We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in England and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010431274
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Fertility and family labor supply
Jakobsen, Katrine Marie; Jørgensen, Thomas H.; Low, Hamish - 2022
We study the role of fertility adjustments for the labor market responsiveness of men and women. First, we use … longitudinal Danish register data and tax reforms from 2009 to provide new empirical evidence on asymmetric fertility adjustments … to tax changes of men and women. Second, we quantify the importance of these fertility adjustments for understanding the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013201692
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The effect of labor market shocks across the life cycle
Salvanes, Kjell G.; Willage, Barton; Willén, Alexander - 2021
relocate to new labor markets, individuals in the middle of their careers reduce fertility and adjust family formation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012745247