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Discrimination and workers' expectations
Filippin, Antonio (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Discrimination and workers' expectations : experimental evidence
Filippin, Antonio (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Education and growth with learning by doing
Marconi, Gabriele; Grip, Andries de - 2015
We develop a general equilibrium overlapping generations model which is based on the view that education makes workers more productive by increasing their ability to learn from work experience, rather than providing skills that directly increase productivity. One important implication of the...
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Fear of labor rigidities : the role of expectations on employment growth in Peru
Lavado, Pablo; Yamada, Gustavo - 2015
Many studies have been conducted to analyze the effect of stricter Employment Protection Legislation (EPL). However, almost all of them has focused on an ex-post impact; leaving aside a second but equally important channel: expectations. This paper aims to analyze the role of expectations on...
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The cost of the COVID-19 crisis : lockdowns, macroeconomic expectations, and consumer spending
Coibion, Olivier; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Weber, Michael - 2020
We study how the differential timing of local lockdowns due to COVID-19 causally affects households' spending and macroeconomic expectations at the local level using several waves of a customized survey with more than 10,000 respondents. About 50% of survey participants report income and wealth...
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Labour market expectations and unemployment in Europe
Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - 2023
Unemployment is notoriously difficult to predict. In previous studies, once country and year fixed effects are added to panel estimates, few variables predict changes in unemployment rates. Using panel data for 29 European countries collected by the European Commission over 444 months between...
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Labor market news and expectations about jobs & earnings
Schmidpeter, Bernhard - 2023
Little is known about how workers update expectations about job search and earnings when exposed to labor market news. To identify the impact of news on expectations, I exploit Foxconn’s unexpected announcement to build a manufacturing plant in Racine County. Exposure to positive news leads to...
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Automatability of occupations, workers' labor-market expectations, and willingness to train
Lergetporer, Philipp; Wedel, Katharina; Werner, Katharina - 2023
We study how beliefs about the automatability of workers' occupation affect labor-market expectations and willingness to participate in further training. In our representative online survey, respondents on average underestimate the automation risk of their occupation, especially those in...
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Does education reduce wage inequality? : quantile regressions evidence from fifteen European countries
Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2000
- Germany and Greece. We thus find that in most countries dispersion in earnings increases with educational levels and that …
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A balancing act at times of austerity : matching the supply and demand for skills in the Greek labour market
Pouliakas, Konstantinos - 2014
jobs. The synthesis of available skills intelligence for Greece, the country most severely affected by the global economic … face of economic austerity. The paper engages in a comparative overview of Greece's performance on flagship Europe 2020 … initial educational system and the labour market in Greece. But tackling skill mismatch requires skill development and skill …
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