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The Impact of Education on Unemployment Incidence and Re-Employment Success : Evidence from the U.S. Labour Market
Riddell, W. Craig - 2011
This study investigates the causal effects of education on individuals' transitions between employment and unemployment, with particular focus on the extent to which education improves re-employment outcomes among unemployed workers. Given that positive correlations between education and labour...
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Wage Rigidity and Job Creation
Haefke, Christian; Sonntag, Marcus; van Rens, Thijs - 2021
Standard macroeconomic models underpredict the volatility of unemployment fluctuations. A common solution is to assume wages are rigid. We explore whether this explanation is consistent with the data. We show that the wage of newly hired workers, unlike the aggregate wage, is volatile and...
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Unemployment or Overeducation : Which is a Worse Signal to Employers?
Baert, Stijn - 2014
This study aims at estimating the stigma effect of unemployment and overeducation within one framework. To this end, we conduct a field experiment in the Belgian labour market. We send out trios of fictitious male job applications to real vacancies. These applications differ only by the labour...
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Absenteeism, Unemployment and Employment Protection Legislation : Evidence from Italy
Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2013
discourages employee shirking in asymmetric information contexts. Our empirical analysis aims to verify the role of unemployment …
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Training the Unemployed in France : How Does it Affect Unemployment Duration and Recurrence?
Crepon, Bruno; Ferracci, Marc; Fougère, Denis - 2021
that training improves the matching process between jobseekers and firms …
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Benefit Duration, Unemployment Duration and Job Match Quality : A Regression-Discontinuity Approach
Caliendo, Marco - 2010
The generosity of the Unemployment Insurance system (UI) plays a central role for the job search behavior of unemployed individuals. Standard search theory predicts that an increase in UI benefit generosity, either in terms of benefit duration or entitlement, has a negative impact on the job...
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Great Expectations : Law, Employment Contracts, and Labor Market Performance
MacLeod, W. Bentley - 2011
to enhance ex ante match efficiency in the presence of asymmetric information and relationship specific investments. In …
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Labour Market Signalling and Unemployment Duration : An Empirical Analysis Using Employer-Employee Data
Frederiksen, Anders - 2006
This paper tests the signalling hypothesis using detailed flow-based employer-employee data from Denmark. The primary … plausible estimates of the signalling effect. It is established that the positive ability signal of being displaced due to a … previously been ignored in the empirical analysis of the signalling hypothesis such as local labour market conditions, the sector …
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Signaling in the Labor Market : New Evidence on Layoffs and Plant Closings
Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2021
In my asymmetric-information model of layoffs, high-productivity workers are more likely to be recalled to their former … not have a positive signaling benefit. Analysis of the data from the January 1988-2000 Displaced Workers Supplements to … workers displaced through plant closings in the predicted way, and finds evidence consistent with asymmetric information in …
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Did the Hartz Reforms Speed-Up Job Creation? A Macro-Evaluation Using Empirical Matching Functions
Fahr, Rene - 2006
, in speeding up the matching process between unemployed and vacant jobs. The analysis is conceptually rooted in the flow …-based view underlying the reforms, estimating the structural features of the matching process. The results indicate that the … reforms indeed had an impact in making the labor market more dynamic and accelerating the matching process …
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