analyzes its causes related to labor demand. The main objective is to explore and quantify the extent to which higher education …

density function with higher density and thereby generate large, asymmetric job-finding rate and unemployment reactions. Our …

little employment protection and low unemployment benefits, while the European model (generous benefits and higher duration … differences in labor mobility and reallocation costs, which are typically ignored in American "International Trade" textbooks … human capital investments: they are not independent of the aggregate state of labor markets, and in particular, frictions …

This paper presents the first longitudinal estimates of the effect of work-related training on labor market outcomes in … Switzerland. Using a novel dataset that links official census data on adult education to longitudinal register data on labor … risk of unemployment two years after the treatment. However, the effects are heterogeneous as to gender, age, education …

This chapter reviews the literature on employment and labor law. The goal of the review is to understand why every … theory of contract. Finally, the empirical literature on employment and labor law is reviewed. I conclude that many aspects … contrast, empirical labor market research focuses upon ex post match efficiency in the face of an exogenous productivity shock …

This paper challenges what is the standard account of UK unemployment, namely that the major swings in unemployment … over the past 25 years are due predominantly to movements in the underlying empirical “natural rate of unemployment” (NRU … unemployment are due, instead, to very prolonged after-effects of persistent (transitory but long-lasting) shocks. We argue that (a …

population has an intermediate size because there are too few social interactions compared to the social optimum. Finally, even …

This overview describes the development of methods for empirical research in the field of labor economics during the … causal effects. With the increased availability of detailed administrative data empirical labor economics and more generally …

In this paper, I study the political rationale for labor market regulation. Oligopolists employ raw labor and human … maker can regulate/deregulate the local labor market. I show that the observed tendency to labor market deregulation results … from labor market policies being set up at the local level. In small jurisdictions, the fall of income due to wage …