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-kind benefits and the propensity to have an informal employment relationship in addition to monthly earnings, hourly wages …
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We examine the impact of job loss on entrepreneurship behavior in Norway. Our identification strategy relies on the use of mass layoffs caused by bankruptcies as indicators of exogenous displacement. We find that working in a company which is going to close down due to bankruptcy during the next...
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This paper summarizes the evolution of labor markets and labor market institutions and policies in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe as well as of Central Asia over the last two decades. The main focus is on the evolution of labor market institutions, which are among candidate...
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Based on administrative registers from Norway, we examine how unemployment insurance (UI) and active labor market … programs (ALMP) affect the transition rates from unemployment to regular employment and entrepreneurship. We find that the …
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unemployment spells, hours worked and monthly earnings. We also analyze whether displaced workers are more likely to be in informal … costs as additional outcomes. Displaced migrant workers do not encounter losses in terms of longer unemployment spells or …
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undeclared wages in formal jobs. We also pursue the issues whether displaced workers experience more involuntary informal … informal employment as well as shares of undeclared wages in formal jobs. Our results also show that displacement entraps some …
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We find that the lifecycle employment profiles of nonwestern male labor migrants who came to Norway in the early 1970s diverge significantly from those of native comparison persons. During the first years after arrival almost all of the immigrants worked and their employment rate exceeded that...
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margin since it is driven by flows from permanent wage employment to unemployment. We also show that older, non-Latvian and …
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Using longitudinal data from the date of arrival, we study long‐term labor market and social insurance outcomes for all major immigrant cohorts to Norway since 1970. Immigrants from high-income countries performed as natives, while labor migrants from low‐income source countries had...
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Economies with low unemployment often have high disability rates. In Norway, the permanent disability insurance rolls … outnumber registered unemployment by four to one. Based on administrative register data matched with firms' financial statements … percent of all new disability insurance claims. We conclude that unemployment and disability insurance are close substitutes …
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