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Career Progression and Formal Versus On-the-Job Training
Adda, Jerome; Dustmann, Christian; Meghir, Costas; … - 2021
We develop a dynamic discrete choice model of training choice, employment and wage growth, allowing for job mobility, in a world where wages depend on firm-worker matches, as well as experience and tenure and jobs take time to locate. We estimate this model on a large administrative panel data...
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Does Extending Unemployment Benefits Improve Job Quality?
Nekoei, Arash - 2015
Contrary to standard search model predictions, prior studies failed to estimate a positive effect of unemployment insurance (UI) on reemployment wages. This paper estimates a positive UI wage effect exploiting an age-based regression discontinuity in Austrian administrative data. A search model...
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Did the Hartz Reforms Speed-Up Job Creation? A Macro-Evaluation Using Empirical Matching Functions
Fahr, Rene - 2006
, in speeding up the matching process between unemployed and vacant jobs. The analysis is conceptually rooted in the flow …-based view underlying the reforms, estimating the structural features of the matching process. The results indicate that the … reforms indeed had an impact in making the labor market more dynamic and accelerating the matching process …
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Business Cycle Dependent Unemployment Insurance
Andersen, Torben M. - 2010
The consequences of business cycle contingencies in unemployment insurance systems are considered in a search-matching …
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The Effect of Sanctions on the Job Finding Rate : Evidence from Denmark
Svarer, Michael - 2008
This paper investigates the effect of sanctions of unemployment insurance benefits on the exit rate from unemployment for a sample of Danish unemployed. According to the findings are that even moderate sanctions have rather large effects. For both males and females the exit rate increases by...
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A New Regional Geography of Europe? The Labour Market Impact of the EU Enlargements
Caroleo, Floro E. - 2007
This paper provides a critical overview and a detailed research agenda for scholars interested in regional studies with a special focus on old and new European Union member states. The focus is on the microeconomic foundations of structural change and its spatially asymmetric impact on labour...
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The Impact of Labor Market Entry Conditions on Initial Job Assignment, Human Capital Accumulation, and Wages
Brunner, Beatrice - 2010
We estimate the effects of labor market entry conditions on wages for male individuals first entering the Austrian labor market between 1978 and 2000. We find a large negative effect of unfavorable entry conditions on starting wages as well as a sizeable negative long-run effect. Specifically,...
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Worker Flows and Labour Market Adjustment During the Great Recession : Evidence from a Large Shock
Lehmann, Hartmut - 2016
This paper analyzes how the labor market adjusts to the Great Recession. To this aim, we use the data for Latvia, a country that has experienced one of the most severe recessions in Europe and a subsequent remarkable recovery. Employing longitudinal EU SILC data and a panel data set constructed...
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Labour Market Dynamics and Worker Heterogeneity during the Great Recession : Evidence from Europe
Bachmann, Ronald - 2015
Using harmonized micro data, this paper investigates the effects of the early phase (2008-10) of the recent economic crisis on transitions between labour market states in Europe. Our analysis focuses on individual heterogeneity, on the type of employment contract, and on cross-country...
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The Cyclicality of Labor Market Flows : A Multiple-Shock Approach
Hairault, Jean-Olivier - 2014
model capture the possible shifts in the three conditions determining labor market equilibrium in any matching models … a shock to the efficiency of the matching process (search shock). The two former shocks generate a quite balanced …
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