Showing 1 - 10 of 317
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096147
-by-year transition probabilities. As female (non-)employment patterns changed more dramatically than male employment in past decades, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317604
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098470
This paper provides a preliminary assessment of recent reforms of German employment promotion policy. While several recent studies analyze the impact of measures of employment promotion for the case of Germany, no comparable study exists on the aggregate level, thus precluding any assessment of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321250
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013154994
This paper investigates whether individuals living in neighbourhoods with high concentrations of unemployment are less …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136710
federal employment agency and data of real estate prices, we evaluate the impact of neighborhood unemployment on individual … neighborhood unemployment on the individual employment probability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119023
postcode-level data from administrative records to analyze the effects of immigration on wages and unemployment probabilities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124784
The wage curve literature consistently finds a negative relationship between regional unemployment rates and regional … wages; the most widely accepted theoretical explanations interpret the unemployment rate as a measure of job competition …. This paper proposes new ways of measuring job competition, alternative to the unemployment rate, and finds that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013147373
This paper fills a gap in the literature by investigating whether temporary agency employment substitutes regular employment. To take into account the interaction between the two employment forms, we identify a SVAR model with correlated innovations by volatility regimes. We show that a positive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107696