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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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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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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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Works Councils, Quits and Dismissals in Germany

Grund, Christian - 2013

We examine the relationship between works councils and two different types of employment separation: dismissals by the firm and voluntary quits by employees. Based on representative data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we find a negative relationship between works councils and both kinds...

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Is Job Stability Declining in Germany? Evidences from Count Data Models

Winkelmann, Rainer; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2023

The macro evidence of increased adjustment pressure since the early seventies suggests that job mobility should have increased. Hence, retrospective and spell data from the German Socio-Economic Panel are combined in order to test the hypothesis that job stability for German workers declined...

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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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The Role of Worker Flows in the Dynamics and Distribution of UK Unemployment

Elsby, Michael - 2011

Unemployment varies substantially over time and across subgroups of the labour market. Worker flows among labour market states act as key determinants of this. We examine how the structure of unemployment across groups and its cyclical movements across time are shaped by changes in labour market...

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Does the Use of Worker Flows Improve the Analysis of Establishment Turnover? Evidence from German Administrative Data

Hethey-Maier, Tanja - 2013

Economists have long been interested in analyzing entries and exits of establishments. In many countries administrative datasets provide an excellent source for detailed analysis on a fine and disaggregate level. However, administrative datasets are not without problems: restructuring and...

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Tenures that Shook the World : Worker Turnover in Russia, Poland and Britain

Lehmann, Hartmut; Wadsworth, Jonathan - 2021

We study worker turnover in a transition economy to investigate to what extent the length of time a worker has been employed by a firm shapes the turnover process. Using data from the Polish Labor Force Survey and The Russian Longitudinal Monitor Survey, we compare the pattern of turnover with a...

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