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The Frisch Elasticity in Labor Markets with High Job Turnover

Céspedes Reynaga, Nikita - 2012

We estimate Frisch elasticity in a labor market with high job turnover. In a context where only around 18% of the employed labor force has formal and stable jobs, we perform a fixed effects estimation as proposed by MaCurdy (1981) with a Heckman correction for selection into unemployment. We...

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Can Temporary Wage Incentives Increase Formal Employment? Experimental Evidence from Mexico

Abel, Martin; Carranza, Eliana; Geronimo, Kimberly; … - 2022

Formal sector entry-level jobs in Mexico offer low starting salaries but substantial wage growth. This paper experimentally tests whether a six-months wage incentive can increase formal employment among secondary school graduates. Combining survey and high-frequency social security data, the...

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Revisiting the Complementarity between Educationand Training: The Role of Personality, Working Tasksand Firm Effects

Görlitz, Katja; Tamm, Marcus - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012

This paper addresses the question to which extent the complementarity between educationand training can be attributed … at work are strong predictors of training participation whilepersonality traits are not. Once working tasks and other job … related characteristics arecontrolled for, the skill gap in training participation drops considerably for off …

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Technological and Organizational Changes, andLabor Flows: Evidence on French Establishments

Askenazy, Philippe; Moreno Galbis, Eva - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper investigates the effects of organizational and technological changes on jobstability of different occupational categories in France. We conduct an empirical analysis inwhich we make extensive use of a unique data set on a representative sample of Frenchestablishments...

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Minimum Wage Increases and Vacancies

Kudlyak, Marianna; Tasci, Murat; Tüzemen, Didem - 2022

Using a unique data set and a novel identification strategy, we estimate the effect of minimum wage increases on job vacancy postings. Utilizing occupation-specific county- level vacancy data from the Conference Board's Help Wanted Online for 2005-2018, we find that state-level minimum wage...

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Heterogeneous Paths to Stability

Di Porto, Edoardo; Tealdi, Cristina - 2022

We investigate how the flexibility of temporary contracts affects the probability of young workers to be upgraded into permanent employment. Theoretically, we explore the workers' career development in response to the change in flexibility within a search and matching model; empirically, we...

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Employment Effects of Restricting Fixed-Term Contracts : Theory and Evidence

Cahuc, Pierre; Carry, Pauline; Malherbet, Franck; … - 2022

This paper examines a labor law reform implemented in Portugal in 2009 which restricted the use of fixed-term contracts to reduce labor market segmentation. The reform targeted establishments created by large firms above a specific size threshold, covering about 15% of total employment. Drawing...

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The Impact of Employment Protection on the Industrial Wage Structure

Heywood, John S. - 2018

This paper tests whether the job security offered by stricter employment protection legislation (EPL) undermines positive compensating wage differentials that would otherwise be paid. Specifically, we ask whether industries with relatively more need for layoffs and labour flexibility have lower...

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Theory and Evidence on Employer Collusion in the Franchise Sector

Krueger, Alan B. - 2018

In this paper we study the role of covenants in franchise contracts that restrict the recruitment and hiring of employees from other units within the same franchise chain in suppressing competition for workers. Based on an analysis of 2016 Franchise Disclosure Documents, we find that...

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Long-Term Employment and Job Security Over the Last Twenty-Five Years : A Comparative Study of Japan and the U.S

Kambayashi, Ryo - 2011

Taking advantage of a recent relaxation of Japanese government's data release policy, we conduct a cross-national analysis of micro data from Japan's Employment Status Survey and its U.S. counterpart, Current Population Survey. Our focus is to document and contrast changes in long-term...

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