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Education and Growth with Learning by Doing
Marconi, Gabriele - 2015
We develop a general equilibrium overlapping generations model which is based on the view that education makes workers more productive by increasing their ability to learn from work experience, rather than providing skills that directly increase productivity. One important implication of the...
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Fear of Labor Rigidities : The Role of Expectations on Employment Growth in Peru
Lavado, Pablo - 2016
Many studies have been conducted to analyze the effect of stricter Employment Protection Legislation (EPL). However, almost all of them has focused on an ex-post impact; leaving aside a second but equally important channel: expectations. This paper aims to analyze the role of expectations on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001881
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Labour Market Expectations and Unemployment in Europe
Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - 2023
Unemployment is notoriously difficult to predict. In previous studies, once country and year fixed effects are added to panel estimates, few variables predict changes in unemployment rates. Using panel data for 29 European countries collected by the European Commission over 444 months between...
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A Balancing Act at Times of Austerity : Matching the Supply and Demand for Skills in the Greek Labour Market
Pouliakas, Konstantinos - 2014
jobs. The synthesis of available skills intelligence for Greece, the country most severely affected by the global economic … face of economic austerity. The paper engages in a comparative overview of Greece's performance on flagship Europe 2020 … initial educational system and the labour market in Greece. But tackling skill mismatch requires skill development and skill …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013059680
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Reacting Quickly and Protecting Jobs : The Short-Term Impacts of the Covid-19 Lockdown on the Greek Labor Market
Betcherman, Gordon - 2020
lockdown in Greece. We find that flows into unemployment have not increased; in fact, separations were lower than would have … introduced to mitigate the effects of the crisis in Greece have played an important role. These measures prohibited layoffs in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012827345
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Does Education Reduce Wage Inequality? Quantile Regressions Evidence from Fifteen European Countries
Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2021
- Germany and Greece. We thus find that in most countries dispersion in earnings increases with educational levels and that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321313
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The Effect of Product Market Competition on Job Instability
Aparicio Fenoll, Ainhoa - 2011
This paper assesses the impact of product market competition on job instability as proxied by the use of fixed-term labor contracts. Using both worker data from the Spanish Labor Force Survey and firm data from the Spanish Business Strategies Survey, I show that job instability rises with...
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The Returns to Language Skills in the US Labor Market
Isphording, Ingo E. - 2013
This paper uses data from the 2010 American Community Survey (ACS) to study the returns to language skills of child and adult migrants in the US labor market. We employ an instrumental variable strategy, which exploits differences in language acquisition profiles between immigrants from English-...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013089283
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Value Added, Wages, and Labor Market Flows at the Establishment Level
Merkl, Christian - 2018
In this paper, we analyze the connection between value added, wages, and labor market flows at the establishment level. We develop a simple model to illustrate the expected comovement of these variables. For the empirical analysis, we link the new German Administrative Wage and Labor Market Flow...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012926732
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Identification of Search Models with Initial Condition Problems
Barlevy, Gadi - 2006
This paper extends previous work on the identification of search models in which observed worker productivity is imperfectly observed. In particular, it establishes that these models remain identified even when employment histories are left-censored (i.e. we do not get to follow workers from...
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