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International Assortative Matching in the European Labor Market
Peeters, Thomas; van Ours, Jan - 2022
We investigate whether national borders within Europe hinder the assortative matching of workers to firms in a high … productivity estimates and study the ensuing rank correlation to gauge the degree of assortative matching within and across … countries. We find strong evidence for positive assortative matching at the national level, and even more so at the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014077584
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Costs and Benefits of Labor Mobility between the EU and the Eastern Partnership Countries : The Case of Poland
Duszczyk, Maciej - 2013
Poland is a country being exposed to emigration and immigration flows relatively recently. That, among others, results … structure all existing data and other pieces of information on immigrants coming to Poland from the EU Eastern Partnership … hand also a vast majority of them come to Mazowieckie (Warsaw) Voivodeship. The study also confirms Poland is often not a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013073867
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Employment Fluctuations and Dynamics of the Aggregate Average Wage in Poland 1996-2003
Myck, Michal; Morawski, Leszek; Mycielski, Jerzy - 2021
effect on the computed average. In this paper we demonstrate the extent of this problem using data for Poland for the period … 1996-2003. During these years employment in Poland fell from 51.2% to 44.2% and most of it occurred between the end of 1998 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317326
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Task-Biased Changes of Employment and Remuneration : The Case of Occupations
Kampelmann, Stephan - 2011
Different empirical studies suggest that the structure of employment in the U.S. and Great Britain tends to polarise into "good" and "bad" jobs. We provide updated evidence that polarisation also occurred in Germany since the mid-1980s until 2008. Using representative panel data, we show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130457
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Fiscal Policy and the Labour Market : The Effects of Public Sector Employment and Wages
Gomes, Pedro - 2010
I build a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model with search and matching frictions and two sectors in order to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135824
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The Impact of the Crisis on Employment and the Role of Labour Market Institutions
Eichhorst, Werner - 2010
The paper takes a comparative perspective on the labour market impact on G20 and EU countries of the financial and economic crisis that began in 2008. It starts from the observation that the decline in employment and rise in unemployment in relation to output or GDP reductions varies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135827
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Employment Concentration and Resource Allocation : One-Company Towns in Russia
Commander, Simon John - 2011
The paper looks at the effects of employment concentration on resource allocation with a particular focus on one-company towns in Russia defined as towns where a single company accounts for a significant share of total employment of the locality. Empirical analysis of firms' production functions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119286
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What Explains Prevalence of Informal Employment in European Countries : The Role of Labor Institutions, Governance, Immigrants, and Growth
Hazans, Mihails - 2011
European Social Survey data on 30 countries, covering years 2004-2009, are used to look into joint institutional [and other macro] determinants of the rates of dependent employment without a contract, informal self-employment, and unemployment (secondary jobs are not accounted for). Consistently...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121759
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The Effect of Public Sector Employment on Women's Labour Market Outcomes
Anghel, Brindusa - 2011
This paper addresses the role played by Public Sector (PS) employment across different ECD labour markets in explaining: (i) gender differences regarding choices to work in either PS or private sector, and (ii) subsequent changes in female labour market outcomes. To do so, we provide some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122956
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Migraine Headache and Labor Market Outcomes
Rees, Daniel I. - 2012
While migraine headache can be physically debilitating, no study has attempted to estimate its effects on labor market outcomes. Using data drawn from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, we estimate the effect of migraine headache on labor force participation, hours worked, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096472