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Like many transition economies, Slovenia is undergoing profound changes in the workings of the labor market with … market for Slovenia using unique longitudinal matched employer-employee data that permits measurement of employment … flows and job flows in a comprehensive and integrated manner. We find a high pace of job flows in Slovenia especially for …
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Do labour institutions influence how wages respond to the business cycle? Such responsiveness can then shape several economic outcomes, including unemployment. In this paper, we examine the role of two key labour market institutions - collective bargaining and temporary contracts - upon wage...
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power. A simple matching model shows that the lighthouse effect may be induced by significant sorting and composition …
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institutional measures and wage inequality incorporates unemployment and working hours dynamics, discussing the problems of matching …
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We examine the effects of a 2013 labour market reform in Slovenia which made permanent contracts less restrictive and … fixed-term contracts more restrictive. Using matched employer-employee database covering the entirety of Slovenia's labour …
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unemployment rates. To this end, we develop a matching model à la Pissarides (2000) in which homeowners are assumed to be less …
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changes in the countries in the sample, control variables or estimation methods. We discuss to which extent our results are … consistent with equilibrium matching models with or without endogenous sorting of workers into jobs providing entitlement to UBs … and stochastic job matching. -- Unemployment benefits ; job reallocation ; matching models …
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This paper estimates the effect of minimum wage regulation in 16 OECD countries, 1970-2008. Our treatment is motivated by Neumark and Wascher's (2004) seminal cross-country study using panel methods to estimate minimum wage effects among teenagers and young adults. Apart from the longer time...
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This paper analyzes the implications of labor market institutions and policies on the employment-labor productivity trade-off. We consider an equilibrium search model with wage posting and specific human capital investment where unemployment and the distribution of both wages and productivity...
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Today, Europe is a continent of low participation, low employment labor markets. Many observers would like to blame poor employment outcomes on the Euro or on austerity. But these are dangerous distractions from real problems that constitute imperatives for structural reform. There are...
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