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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777459
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016259
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Beyond Cobb-Douglas : Flexibly Estimating Matching Functions with Unobserved Matching Efficiency
Lange, Fabian - 2020
the empirical literature estimating the matching function, commonly used to map unemployment and vacancies into hires …. First, we show how to non-parametrically identify the matching function. Second, we estimate the matching function allowing … for unobserved matching efficacy, without imposing the usual independence assumption between matching efficiency and …
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The Effectiveness of Hiring Credits
Cahuc, Pierre - 2018
search and matching model. Simulations of counterfactual policies show that the effectiveness of the hiring credit relied to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012930950
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Matching Efficiency and Heterogeneous Workers in the UK
Lisauskaite, Elena - 2022
The matching efficiency of the standard matching function is known to follow a pro-cyclical pattern. An observed … rightward shift in the UK's Beveridge Curve after the Great Recession, suggests a decrease in the matching efficiency between … characteristics of unemployed, using the standard aggregate matching function. Consistent with the findings for the US (Barnichon and …
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