waves to estimate how regional population reacts to asymmetric shocks. These shocks are measured by non-employment rates …, unemployment rates, and wages in fixed-effects regressions which effectively use changes in these indicators over time within … regions as identifying information. Because we include region and time effects, we interpret regression-adjusted population …

Population Survey extracts in 1980, specific to Miami but unrelated to the Boatlift. We also show that conflicting findings on … the labor-market effects of other important refugee waves can be produced by spurious correlation between the instrument …

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 …

Using micro panel data, labor market transitions are analyzed for the EU-member states by cumulative year … analyses mainly refer to female labor supply. In search for important determinants of these transitions, six EU-countries with … different labor market-regimes are selected as examples (Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, Portugal, Ireland, UK). Within these …

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 …