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For nearly 50 years academics have been studying how labor markets affect crime. The initial interesting and important theoretical and empirical work generated substantial interest in studying crime among economists, in particular, and scholars in the social sciences more broadly. This...
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flexible multi-state Mixed Proportional Hazard specifications for transition rates between employment, unemployment, and …' transition rates from unemployment to employment increase. Longer periods of non-employment generally decrease future transition …
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The Swedish adult education program known as the Knowledge Lift is unprecedented in its size and scope, aiming to raise the skill level of all low-skilled workers towards the medium level. This paper evaluates the effects of program participation on individual labor market outcomes, notably...
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pay and the local unemployment rate - in modern U.S. data. Consistent with recent evidence from more than 40 other …'s theoretical framework: (i) wages are higher in states with more generous unemployment benefits, (ii) the perceived probability of … job-finding is lower in states with higher unemployment, and (iii) employees are less happy in states that have higher …
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employer and may choose to remain unemployed rather than to accept a low-wage job. In this case, unemployment can serve as a … signal of productivity, and duration of unemployment may be positively related to post-laid-off wages even among workers who … are not recalled. In contrast, because workers whose plant closed cannot be recalled, longer unemployment for them should …
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bargaining, minimum wages, employment protection and unemployment benefits affect the way in which wages respond to labor supply … decline with the unemployment rate, albeit imperfectly. We find that wage flexibility is substantially higher in the UK … compared to Germany and, in particular, Denmark. As a consequence, immigration has a much larger effect on the unemployment …
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envisaged in other European countries, which hope that hours reductions will be an efficient policy for reducing unemployment. …
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Based on the current European discussion about immigration policy, this paper gives an overview of central economic consequences of immigration for a host country?s labor market. The most important theoretical arguments are presented and evaluated against the available empirical evidence. The...
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This paper surveys the existing empirical research that uses search theory to empirically analyze labor supply questions in a structural framework, using data on individual labor market transitions and durations, wages, and individual characteristics. The starting points of the literature are...
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tracing key labor market indicators such as employment, unemployment, labor force participation, working hours, and real wages …
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