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Theory and Empirics of Short-Time Work: A Review
Bermudez, Natalia; Dejemeppe, Muriel; Tarullo, Giulia - 2023
Following massive take-up rates during the COVID-19 period, short-time work (STW) policies have attracted renewed interest. In this paper, we take stock of this policy instrument and provide a critical review of STW systems in Europe. We focus on the objectives of STW programs and their primary...
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Timed to Say Goodbye: Does Unemployment Benefit Eligibility Affect Worker Layoffs?
Albanese, Andrea; Ghirelli, Corinna; Picchio, Matteo - 2019
We study how unemployment benefit eligibility affects the layoff exit rate by exploiting quasi-experimental variation in eligibility rules in Italy. By using a difference-indifferences estimator, we find an instantaneous increase of about 12% in the layoff probability when unemployment benefit...
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Employment Protection and Firm-provided Training: Quasi-experimental Evidence from a Labour Market Reform
Bratti, Massimiliano; Conti, Maurizio; Sulis, Giovanni - 2019
potentially adverse effects of employment protection legislation (EPL) on training in dual labour markets due to larger firms …
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Temporal Changes to the Added Worker Effect Associated with Spousal Job Loss
Connolly, Laura E.; Jolly, Nicholas A. - 2024
loss, particularly part-time working wives shifting to full-time employment. Finally, displaced husbands are increasingly …
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Young adult job loss and criminal activity
Jolly, Nicholas A.; Propp, Margaret H. - 2024
This paper uses data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to study the relationship between job displacement and the probability of arrest and incarceration among young adults. Results show that displacement is associated with increases in the probability of arrest and incarceration. The...
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Unions and Collective Bargaining: The Influence on Wages, Employment and Firm Survival
Brändle, Tobias - 2024
Unions and collective bargaining play a central role in shaping wages and influencing firms' employment decisions and … employment. Unions typically increase wages and other working conditions for their members and often all employees working in … lower wage inequality. This result is more or less undisputed in the literature. The union effect on employment is …
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The Law of Proportionate Effect: A test based on the graphical model methodology
Guerzoni, Marco; Riso, Luigi; Vivarelli, Marco - 2023
Using both regression analysis and an unsupervised graphical model approach (never applied before to this issue), we confirm the rejection of the Gibrat's law when our firm-level data are considered over the entire investigated period, while the opposite is true when we allow for market...
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Labor market policy and subjective well-being during the Great Recession
Morgan, Robson; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2019
, stricter employment protection legislation exacerbated the negative effects. We present further evidence that suggests the … exacerbating effects of employment protection legislation are due to greater rigidities in the labor market, which in turn affect …
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Family matters: involuntary parental unemployment during childhood and subjective well-being later in life
Nikolova, Milena; Nikolaev, Boris N. - 2018
We are the first to examine how parental unemployment experienced during early-, mid- and late-childhood affects adult life satisfaction. Using German household panel data, we find that parental unemployment induced by plant closures and experienced during early (0-5 years) and late (11-15...
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The effect of job search requirements on welfare receipt
Hérault, Nicolas; Vu, Ha; Wilkins, Roger - 2020
Many countries impose job search requirements as a condition of unemployment benefit receipt, but there is relatively little evidence on the efficacy of these requirements. Australian reforms in 1995 and 2003 saw groups of welfare recipients newly subjected to job search requirements, providing...
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