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This paper aims to study whether the local variation in unemployment rates is related to labour turnover and what is … unemployment on the dynamics of the local unemployment rate. The empirical analysis is based on a newly available unique dataset … from the employment registry of a transition economy (Poland), encompassing nine years of monthly data (from 2000 to 2008 …
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Estimating the returns to migration from East to West Germany, we focus on pre-migration employment dynamics, earnings uncertainty, and job change. Migrants are found to be negatively selected with respect to labor market outcomes, with a large drop in earnings and employment during the last few...
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of in-work benefits on search intensity, participation, employment, and unemployment, compared to a framework in which …
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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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This paper proposes a novel method for identifying and visualising key employment obstacles that may prevent individuals from participating fully in the labour market. The approach is intended to complement existing sources of information that governments use when designing and implementing...
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-by-year transition probabilities. As female (non-)employment patterns changed more dramatically than male employment in past decades, the …
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Theoretical reasoning justifies different signs of the relationship between the local variation in unemployment rates … positively related to the unemployment rate. In addition, we study the determinants of labour turnover across NUTS1 and NUTS2 …
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We compare a set of econometric studies that measure the effect of net internal migration in neoclassical models of long-run real income convergence and derive 67 comparable effect sizes. The precision-weighted estimate of beta convergence is about 2.7%. An increase in the net migration rate of...
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There are large spatial disparities in unemployment durations across the 1,300 municipalitiesin the Ile … municipality on an exhaustive datasetof all unemployment spells starting in the first semester of 1996... …
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This paper provides a critical overview and a detailed research agenda for scholarsinterested in regional studies with a special focus on old and new European Union memberstates. The focus is on the microeconomic foundations of structural change and its spatiallyasymmetric impact on labour...
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