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The Impact of Education on Unemployment Incidence and Re-Employment Success : Evidence from the U.S. Labour Market
Riddell, W. Craig - 2011
This study investigates the causal effects of education on individuals' transitions between employment and unemployment, with particular focus on the extent to which education improves re-employment outcomes among unemployed workers. Given that positive correlations between education and labour...
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Scarring Effects of the First Labor Market Experience
Nordstrom Skans, Oskar - 2011
The paper studies the relationship between teenagers' first labor market experience and subsequent labor market performance using data on all Swedish youths graduating from vocational high schools in the recession years of 1991-94. Sibling fixed-effects combined with detailed data on high school...
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Overeducation and Mismatch in the Labor Market
Leuven, Edwin - 2011
This paper surveys the economics literature on overeducation. The original motivation to study this topic were reports that the strong increase in the number of college graduates in the early 1970s in the US led to a decrease in the returns to college education. We argue that Duncan and...
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Asymmetric Information in the Labor Market, Immigrants and Contract Menu
Kar, Saibal - 2011
that a standardized screening mechanism is unavailable. At the same time, several empirical studies show that immigrants … by the employers, which when offered to a mixed cohort of immigrants facilitates self-selection in favor of paid …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129911
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Spatial Versus Social Mismatch : The Strength of Weak Ties
Zenou, Yves - 2011
The aim of this paper is to provide a new mechanism based on social interactions explaining why distance to jobs can have a negative impact on workers' labor-market outcomes, especially ethnic minorities. Building on Granovetter's idea that weak ties are superior to strong ties for providing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129913
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Analyzing the Extent and Influence of Occupational Licensing on the Labor Market
Kleiner, Morris M. - 2011
This study examines the extent and influence of occupational licensing in the U.S. using a specially designed national labor force survey. Specifically, we provide new ways of measuring occupational licensing and consider what types of regulatory requirements and what level of government...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129916
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Information and Communication Technologies and Skill Upgrading : The Role of Internal vs. External Labour Markets
Behaghel, Luc - 2011
Following the adoption of information and communication technologies (ICT), firms are likely to face increasing skill requirements. They may react either by training or hiring the new skills, or by a combination of both. We first show that ICT are indeed skill biased and we then assess the...
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The Labor Market Value to Legal Status
Lozano, Fernando A. - 2011
estimate the effect of the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) on immigrants' labor market outcomes using a triple … in labor market earnings of Mexican immigrants over the long run, and that nearly all of this increase is in the … able to obtain. We estimate the model for immigrants from other countries not benefiting from IRCA to the extent that …
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The Cyclicality of Effective Wages within Employer-Employee Matches in a Rigid Labor Market
Anger, Silke - 2011
This study analyzes real wage cyclicality for male full-time workers within employer-employee matches in Germany over the period 1984-2004. Five different wage measures are compared: the standard hourly wage rate; hourly wage earnings including overtime and bonus pay; the effective wage, which...
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A Labor Market Approach to the Crisis of Health Care Professionals in Africa
Andalon, Mabel - 2011
This paper adopts a labor market economics perspective to understanding the crisis of health care professionals in Africa. Five challenges resulting from this crisis are identified: a production challenge, an underutilization challenge, a distributional challenge, a performance challenge, and a...
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