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Labour Turnover and the Spatial Distribution of Unemployment : A Panel Data Analysis Using Employment Registry Data
Pastore, Francesco - 2012
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 …
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The Role of Unemployment and Job Change When Estimating the Returns to Migration
Emmler, Julian; Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2021
Estimating the returns to migration from East to West Germany, we focus on pre-migration employment dynamics, earnings uncertainty, and job change. Migrants are found to be negatively selected with respect to labor market outcomes, with a large drop in earnings and employment during the last few...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315279
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Place-Based Policies and Agglomeration Economies : Firm-Level Evidence from Special Economic Zones in India
Görg, Holger; Mulyukova, Alina - 2022
This paper exploits time and geographic variation in the adoption of Special Economic Zones in India to assess the direct and spillover effects of the program. We combine geocoded firm-level data and geocoded SEZs using a concentric ring approach, thus creating a novel dataset of firms with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083818
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Land Use Rights, Market Transitions, and Labor Policy Change in China (1980-4)
Chen, Yiu Por - 2012
the country's market transition. I show that the 1980s' Household Responsibility System (HRS), which brought family …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106945
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Faces of Joblessness : Characterising Employment Barriers to Inform Policy
Fernandez, Rodrigo - 2016
This paper proposes a novel method for identifying and visualising key employment obstacles that may prevent individuals from participating fully in the labour market. The approach is intended to complement existing sources of information that governments use when designing and implementing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012990856
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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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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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Female Labor Market Transitions in Europe
Kaiser, Lutz - 2021
-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
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Social Inclusion and Levels of Urbanisation : Does it Matter Where You Live?
Whelan, Adele; Devlin, Anne; McGuinness, Seamus - 2023
Are individuals living in distinct urban or rural settings more likely to experience barriers to social inclusion? If so, what are the nature of the barriers that they face? Using a unique administrative dataset for Ireland's dominant social inclusion programme, this paper examines the effect of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014358467
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The Effects of Physical Restructuring on the Socioeconomic Status of Neighborhoods : Selective Migration and Upgrading
Zwiers, Merle - 2017
In the last few decades, urban restructuring programs have been implemented in many Western European cities with the main goal of combating a variety of socioeconomic problems in deprived neighborhoods. The main instrument of restructuring has been housing diversification and tenure mixing. The...
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