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Mobility Into and Out of Poverty in Europe in the 1990s and the Pre‐Crisis Period : The Role of Income, Demographic and Labour Market Events

Andriopoulou, Eirini - 2016

, although five general patterns emerge:a) In both periods, income events and especially changes in head's labor earnings seem to … a poverty spell than unemployment events for starting a poverty spell; c) The importance of second income earners …

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Wage Cyclicalities and Labor Market Dynamics at the Establishment Level : Theory and Evidence

Merkl, Christian - 2017

establishments with more procyclical wages have a less procyclical hires rate and employment behavior. We propose a labor market flow … cyclicalities of all establishments to the one of the most procyclical establishments, labor market volatilities drop by more than …

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Labor Market Institutions and the Cost of Recessions

Krebs, Tom - 2017

This paper studies the effect of two labor market institutions, unemployment insurance (UI) and job search assistance … search unemployment, skill depreciation during unemployment, and idiosyncratic as well as aggregate labor market risk. The … theoretical analysis shows that an increase in JSA and a reduction in UI reduce the output cost of recessions by making the labor …

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Labour Market Concentration, Wages and Job Security in Europe

Bassanini, Andrea; Bovini, Giulia; Caroli, Eve; … - 2022

We investigate the impact of labour market concentration on two dimensions of job quality, namely wages and job security. We leverage rich administrative linked employer-employee data from Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal and Spain in the 2010s to provide the first comparable...

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Cyclical Earnings, Career and Employment Transitions

Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos; Visschers, Ludo; Wiczer, David - 2022

This paper studies the cyclical behaviour of earnings risk and career changes. We document that the procyclical skewness of the earnings growth distribution arises mostly from the earnings changes of employer and occupation switchers. To uncover their relative importance in driving cyclical...

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Automatic Stabilizers, Economic Crisis and Income Distribution in Europe

Dolls, Mathias - 2010

This paper investigates to what extent the tax and transfer systems in Europe protect households at different income levels against losses in current income caused by economic downturns like the present financial crisis. We use a multi country micro simulation model to analyse how shocks on...

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Growth, Colonization, and Institutional Development : In and Out of Africa

Bertocchi, Graziella - 2011

This essay investigates the determinants of the growth performance of Africa. I start by illustrating a broader research agenda which accounts not only for basic economic and demographic factors, but also for the role of history and institutional development. After reporting results from...

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An Anatomy of Racial and Ethnic Trends in Male Earnings

Winters, John V. - 2012

resulting from labor force withdrawal among lower-skilled African Americans. This paper builds on prior research and documents … growth similar to white men. Black men are being left behind economically, a process exacerbated by weak labor market …

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iPEHD : The Ifo Prussian Economic History Database

Becker, Sascha O. - 2012

This paper provides a documentation of the ifo Prussian Economic History Database (iPEHD), a county-level database covering a rich collection of variables for 19th-century Prussia. The Royal Prussian Statistical Office collected these data in several censuses over the years 1816-1901, with much...

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The Impact of City Contracting Set-Asides on Black Self-Employment and Employment

Chatterji, Aaron - 2013

In the 1980s, many U.S. cities initiated programs reserving a proportion of government contracts for minority-owned businesses. The staggered introduction of these set-aside programs is used to estimate their impacts on the self-employment and employment rates of African-American men. Black...

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