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's earnings, wage, and employment loss after a mass layoff in comparison to a matched, nondisplaced, control worker. We find that … migrants face substantially higher earnings losses than natives due to both higher wage and employment losses. Differences in … but not the employment gap after displacement. Laid-off migrants are both less likely to become reemployed and work fewer …
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From 2002-2004, the German government passed several laws that curtailed the generosity of the unemployment compensation system. One of the most ambitious changes was a considerable reduction in unemployment benefit entitlement lengths for older unemployed, which was effective during 2006 and...
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Employment Agency about the total number of employees eligible, and, up to the total granted, firms can flexibly choose how many …
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persistent employment and wage losses in regions where such occupations decline the most. Regional and occupational mobility …
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Substantial evidence shows that North Americans are generally more accepting of the market than Europeans and attribute market outcomes to a larger degree to effort or skill. This article discusses the perceived fairness of layoffs and pay cuts in North America and Germany. We expect North...
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We analyze a labor market program that subsidizes skill-upgrading occupational training for work-ers employed in small and medium sized enterprises. The program covers a substantial share of training costs. Nonetheless, take-up has been low. In an experimental setup, we mailed 10,000 brochures...
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In this paper we examine how employment and hiring processes develop in the course of digitalisation in German … link between the topics of digitalisation and employment/hiring. We distinguish between different forms of digitalisation …
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-employee data for Germany that allow to take the complete employment biographies of newly hired workers into account. The results … instable employment biographies, come from unemployment or outside the labor force, or were affected by a plant closure … in startups than in incumbents. Therefore, even if startups provide employment opportunities for certain groups of …
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favourable composition of unemployment in large cities which reduces the probability of transitions into employment during crises. …
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employment and earnings prospects of directly displaced workers. In contrast, neither an individual-level difference …
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