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. We show that ERTEs stabilize unemployment rates by allowing workers to remain with their employers in highly affected …
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We propose a model to evaluate the U.K.'s zero-hours contract (ZHC) - a contract that exempts employers from the requirement to provide any minimum working hours, and allows employees to decline any workload. We find quantitatively that ZHCs improve welfare by enabling firms with more volatile...
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Persistent unemployment across OECD countries has led to increasing investments in activation programmes and, as a …
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labor market institutions are similar and their unemployment rates just before the crisis were both around 8%. Yet, in …This paper analyzes the strikingly different response of unemployment to the Great Recession in France and Spain. Their … France, unemployment rate has increased by 2 percentage points, whereas in Spain it has shot up to 19% by the end of 2009. We …
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We investigate the importance of employer preferences in explaining Sticky Floors, the pattern that women are, compared to men, less likely to start to climb the job ladder. To this end we perform a randomised field experiment in the Belgian labour market and test whether hiring discrimination...
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EPL varying among workers of different skills on the level and composition of unemployment, job flows, productivity and …
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Recent evidence from large-scale field experiments has shown that employers use job candidates' unemployment duration … unemployment durations. In addition, these participants rate the job candidates on statements central to four theoretical … mechanisms often related to the scarring effect of unemployment: general signalling theory, (perceived) skill loss, queuing …
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stepping-stone or dead-end nature of temporary contracts, their effects on employment, unemployment, churn, training …
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addition to unemployment benefits when they are dismissed. Therefore, we conduct a state-of-the-art scenario experiment in … - from partaking in this regime because it seemingly mitigates the regular stigmatisation of long-term unemployment …
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