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The Costs of Worker Displacement in Urban Labor Markets of China
Ge, Yuhao - 2014
This paper analyzes the costs of job loss in China, using unique new data from the Rural-to-Urban Migration in China … unemployment spells, hours worked and monthly earnings. We also analyze whether displaced workers are more likely to be in informal … costs as additional outcomes. Displaced migrant workers do not encounter losses in terms of longer unemployment spells or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013064159
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In-Work Benefits and the Nordic Model
Kolm, Ann-Sofie - 2013
Welfare benefits in the Nordic countries are often tied to employment. We argue that this is one of the factors behind the success of the Nordic model, where a comprehensive welfare state is associated with high employment. In a general equilibrium setting, the underlining mechanism works...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013089009
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How Urbanization Affects Employment and Social Interactions
Sato, Yasuhiro - 2014
We develop a model where the unemployed workers in the city can find a job either directly or through weak or strong ties. We show that, in denser areas, individuals choose to interact with more people and meet more random encounters (weak ties) than in sparsely populated areas. We also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013059681
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Employment Effects of Privatisation and Foreign Acquisition of Chinese State-Owned Enterprises
Gong, Yundan; Görg, Holger; Maioli, Sara - 2021
(SOEs) on employment growth, using firm level data for China and a combination of propensity score matching and difference …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317362
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Product Market Regulation, Firm Size, Unemployment and Informality in Developing Economies
Charlot, Olivier - 2011
This paper studies the impact of product and labor market regulations on informality and unemployment in a general … regulations lead to a simultaneous reduction in informality and unemployment. The difference between these two policy options lies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129903
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In-Work Benefits and Unemployment
Tonin, Mirco - 2011
of in-work benefits on search intensity, participation, employment, and unemployment, compared to a framework in which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130454
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Is Short-Time Work a Good Method to Keep Unemployment Down?
Cahuc, Pierre - 2011
2008-2009 crisis. This paper discusses the efficiency of this type of policy and investigates its impact on unemployment … unemployment during downturns. All in all, it seems that short-time work programs used in the recent downturn had significant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131173
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Labor Markets and Labor Market Institutions in Transition Economies
Lehmann, Hartmut - 2011
This paper summarizes the evolution of labor markets and labor market institutions and policies in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe as well as of Central Asia over the last two decades. The main focus is on the evolution of labor market institutions, which are among candidate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121335
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Getting Back into the Labor Market : The Effects of Start-Up Subsidies for Unemployed Females
Caliendo, Marco - 2012
A shortage of skilled labor and low female labor market participation are problems many developed countries have to face. Besides activating inactive women, one possible solution is to support the re-integration of unemployed women. Due to female-specific labor market constraints (preferences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099742
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Endogenous Exit Bias in Training Programs for Unemployed Workers
Kluve, Jochen - 2012
This paper assesses the importance of reverse causality when evaluating the impact of training duration for unemployed workers. We use planned duration as an instrumental variable for actual duration. Our results suggest that the potential endogeneity of exits seems to be only relevant in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106001