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Life satisfaction of employees, labour market tightness and matching efficiency
Pedraza, Pablo de; Guzi, Martin; Tijdens, Kea Gartje - 2020
circumstances such as gross domestic product, unemployment, and inflation. In this paper, we bring attention to labour market … Tella et al. (2001) to explore sectoral unemployment levels, labour market tightness, and matching efficiency as LS …-stage, we regress LS measures against the unemployment level, labour market tightness, and matching efficiency. Our results are …
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Employment adjustment and part-time jobs : the U.S. and the U.K. in the Great Recession
Borowczyk-Martins, Daniel; Lalé, Etienne - 2016
We document that fluctuations in part-time employment play a major role in movements in hours per worker, especially during cyclical swings in the labor market. Building on this result, we propose a novel representation of the intensive margin based on a stock-flow framework. The evolution of...
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Labour market flows : accounting for the public sector
Fontaine, Idriss; Galvez-Iniesta, Ismael; Gomes, Pedro; … - 2019
probabilities between private and public employment, unemployment and inactivity. We examine the stocks and flows by gender, age and … unemployment rate. Public-sector employment contributes 20 percent to fluctuations in the unemployment rate in the UK, 15 percent …
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Wages and employment in the Netherlands, 2017-2023
Klinker, Iris; Weel, Bas ter - 2024
This research documents changes in employment and wages in the Netherlands for different types of workers. We compare 2017 to 2023 using regression-adjusted wages to make sure changes in composition of the workforce do not influence our estimates. The research period has been characterised by...
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Disaggregate matching functions
Fahr, René; Sunde, Uwe - 2001
This paper deals with empirical matching functions. The paper is innovative in several ways. First, unlike in most of the existing literature, matching functions are estimated not only on aggregate, but also on disaggregate levels which is unusual due to the scarcity of appropriate data....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011403040
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Skill wage premia, employment, and cohort effects : are workers in Germany all of the same type?
Fitzenberger, Bernd (contributor); Kohn, Karsten (contributor) - 2006
-specific unemployment rates in 1997. The required nominal wage reductions range from 8.8 to 12.2% and are the higher the lower the employees …' skill level. -- labor demand ; heterogeneity ; age ; skill ; wage structure ; employment ; cohort effects ; unemployment …
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Bullying at school and labour market outcomes
Drydakis, Nick - 2013
This study examines the long-term correlates of bullying in school with aspects of functioning in adult employment outcomes. Bullying is considered and evaluated as a proxy for unmeasured productivity, and a framework is provided that outlines why bullying might affect employment outcomes...
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Fewer jobs or smaller paychecks? : aggregate crisis impacts in selected middle-income countries
Khanna, Gaurav; Newhouse, David Locke; Paci, Pierella - 2011
This paper reviews evidence from 44 middle income countries on how the recent financial crisis affected jobs and workers' income. In addition to providing a rare assessment of the magnitude of the impact across several middle-income countries, the paper describes how labor markets adjusted and...
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This job is "getting old" : measuring changes in job opportunities using occupational age structure
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David - 2009
High- and low-wage occupations are expanding rapidly relative to middle-wage occupations in both the U.S. and the E.U. We study the reallocation of workers from middle-skill occupations towards the tails of the occupational skill distribution by analyzing changes in age structure within and...
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Search and multiple jobholding
Lalé, Etienne - 2019
A search-theoretic model of the labor market with idiosyncratic fluctuations in hours worked, search both off- and on-the-job, and multiple jobholding is developed. Taking on a second job entails a commitment to hold onto the primary employer, enabling the worker to use the primary job as her...
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