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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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Rent-Sharing and the Cyclicality of Wage Differentials

Du Caju, Philip; Rycx, Francois; Tojerow, Ilan - 2021

This paper investigates inter-industry wage differentials in Belgium, taking advantage of access to a unique matched employer-employee data set covering all the years from 1999 to 2005. Findings show the existence of large wage differentials among workers with the same observed characteristics...

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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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High-School Dropouts and Transitory Labor Market Shocks : The Case of the Spanish Housing Boom

Aparicio Fenoll, Ainhoa - 2010

This paper addresses the implications of transitory changes in labor market conditions for low versus high educated workers on the decision to acquire education. To identify this effect, I use the improvement in the labor market prospects of low educated workers motivated by the increases in...

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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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