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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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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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Does Employment Protection Help Immigrants? Evidence from European Labor Markets

Sá, Filipa - 2010

High levels of employment protection reduce hiring and firing and have a theoretically ambiguous effect on the employment level. Immigrants, being new to the labor market, may be less aware of employment protection regulations and less likely to claim their rights, which may create a gap between...

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Labour Market Transitions, Shocks and Institutions in Turbulent Times : A Cross-Country Analysis

Bachmann, Ronald - 2018

This paper analyses the impact of the business cycle on labour market dynamics in EU member states and the US during the first decade of the 21st century. Using unique measures of labour market flows constructed from worker-level micro data, we examine to what extent macro shocks were...

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What Explains the German Labor Market Miracle in the Great Recession?

Burda, Michael C. - 2011

Germany experienced an even deeper fall in GDP in the Great Recession than the United States, with little employment loss. Employers' reticence to hire in the preceding expansion, associated in part with a lack of confidence it would last, contributed to an employment shortfall equivalent to 40...

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