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The Employment and Earnings of Migrants inGreat Britain
Andrews, Martyn; Clark, Ken; Whittaker, William - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Using nationally representative, longitudinal data from the first 14 waves of the BritishHousehold Panel Survey we examine the labour market returns to inter-regional migration inGreat Britain...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861658
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Unequal Chances on the Transitional Labor Market:The Case of the Netherlands
Bijwaard, Govert E.; Veenman, Justus - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
The emergence of a transitional labor market offers new opportunities to workers, but at thesame time bears the risk of (new) inequalities. This paper deals with unequal chances on thetransitional labor market in the Netherlands, in particular for workers from the four largestimmigrant groups:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862587
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Exploring the Causes of Frictional Wage Dispersion
Tjaden, Volker; Wellschmied, Felix - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012
Standard search models are unreliable for structural inference of the underlying sources ofwage inequality because they are inconsistent with observed residual wage dispersion. Weaddress this issue by modeling skill development and duration dependence in unemploymentbenefits in a random on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009486869
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What Works Best for Getting the Unemployed Back toWork: Employment Services or Small-BusinessAssistance Programmes? Evidence from Romania
Rodriguez-Planas, Nuria - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Recent empirical evidence has found that employment services and small-businessassistance programmes are often successful at getting the unemployed back to work. Oneimportant concern of policy makers is to decide which of these two programmes is moreeffective and for whom...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861856
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Structural Estimation of Search Intensity:Do Non-Employed Workers Search Enough?
Gautier, Pieter; Moraga-González, José Luis; … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
We present a structural framework for the evaluation of public policies intended to increasejob search intensity. Most of the literature defines search intensity as a scalar that influencesthe arrival rate of job offers; here we treat it as the number of job applications that workerssend out....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861860
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Do Employment Protections Reduce Productivity?Evidence from U.S. States
Autor, David H.; Kerr, William R.; Kugler, Adriana D. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Theory predicts that mandated employment protections may reduce productivity by distortingproduction choices. Firms facing (non-Coasean) worker dismissal costs will curtail hiringbelow efficient levels and retain unproductive workers, both of which should affectproductivity. These theoretical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008939768
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City Air or City Markets:Productivity Gains in Urban Areas
Krupka, Douglas J. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Persistent productivity gains to rural-urban migrants have been documented by a number ofresearchers. One interpretation of this result is that individuals learn higher value skills incities than they would have learned in less dense areas. Another explanation for this result,however, is that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861141
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Unhappiness and Job Finding
Gielen, Anne C.; Ours, Jan C. van - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012
It is puzzling that people feel quite unhappy when they become unemployed, while at thesame time active labor market policies are needed to bring unemployed back to work morequickly. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we investigate whether there isindeed such a puzzle. First, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009486963
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Why Are So Many Disabled Individuals Not Workingin Spain? A Job Search Approach
Silva, José I.; Vall-Castello, Judit - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012
age at which the individualstarts receiving disability benefits, and the increase in the local unemployment rate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009486964
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Do Employers Use Unemployment as aSorting Criterion When Hiring?Evidence from a Field Experiment
Eriksson, Stefan; Rooth, Dan-Olof - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
contemporary unemployment affect a young worker’s probability ofbeing invited to a job interview. In contrast to studies using … forunobserved heterogeneity. We find no evidence that recruiting employers use informationabout past unemployment to sort workers … pastunemployment as a sorting criterion suggests that the scarring effects of unemployment maynot be as severe as has been indicated by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009486983