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This paper studies regional unemployment inequality in Poland. We find that higher unemployment regions are those … job destruction in Poland. Econometric analysis of the determinants of employment to unemployment flows reinforces this … experiencing greater change in industrial structure. We also find high unemployment regions are those with higher inflow rates to …
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set of covariates, results show that product market deregulation overall reduces the unemployment rate. This finding is … effect: deregulation of state controls and in particular involvement in business operations tends to push up the unemployment … rate. Labour market deregulation, proxied by the employment protection legislation index, is detrimental to unemployment in …
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This paper estimates causal effects of two Polish active labor market policies - Training and Intervention Works - on employment probabilities. Using data from the 18th wave of the Polish Labor Force Survey we discuss three stages of an appropriately designed matching procedure and demonstrate...
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the matching process create unemployment and differently skilled workers face different unemployment risks. We show that … unemployment duration the typical Active Labour Market Programme implies a favorable trade-off between equity and efficiency which …
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This paper provides new evidence on the nature of occupational differences in unemployment dynamics, which is relevant … occupational unemployment. In almost all occupations, we find support for both the structuralist and the hysteresis hypotheses, but … adjusted using traditional seasonal filters. -- Occupational unemployment ; structuralist ; hysteresis ; structural break …
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their home. I analyze the relationship between such "house lock" and the elevated levels and persistence of unemployment … unemployment duration between homeowners and renters across geographic areas differentiated by the severity of the decline in home … method that enables the estimation of individual and aggregate covariate effects on completed unemployment durations in …
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We document changes in the structure of earnings during the economic transition in Poland. We find that inequality in … substantially, and by similar amounts. This illustrates how even state-owned enterprises in Poland moved towards competitive wage …, in contrast to the U.S. and U.K. experiences, increases in within-group inequality in Poland were very different across …
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bottom-line of the paper is that product market reforms will help to reduce aggregate unemployment under many circumstances … even though sectoral unemployment may increase. We also highlight that the mobility of high-skilled workers and the … distribution of unemployment across sectors determine whether productivity improvements in one sector affect aggregate unemployment …
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(carrots) and restrictive (sticks) programs. We apply this to contrast regime and treatment effects on unemployment durations …, employment, and post-unemployment earnings using register data that contain PES and case-worker identifiers for about 130,000 job … seekers. The results show that "carrots" and "sticks" treatments prolong unemployment, but carrots increase earnings whereas …
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active labor market policy, are only partly reported as unemployment. A review of the evidence on the effectiveness of labor … have alleviated social burdens from unemployment. Discussing what causes the high unemployment in the east, we claim that … effects of wage policy have been overrated. Differences in unemployment rates are also the result of more ample labor supply …
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