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a large increase in post-displacement employment in the temporary work sector after the reforms. Sorting into worse … wage loss. Collectively, the sorting and matching channels explain almost all of the Hartz reforms' effect on post-displacement …
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This paper measures the job-search responses to the COVID-19 pandemic using realtime data on vacancy postings and ad views on Sweden's largest online job board. First, the labour demand shock in Sweden is as large as in the US, and affects industries and occupations heterogeneously. Second, the...
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Recent empirical evidence has found that employment services and small-businessassistance programmes are often successful at getting the unemployed back to work. Oneimportant concern of policy makers is to decide which of these two programmes is moreeffective and for whom...
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We exploit homogeneous firm level data of manufacturing and non-manufacturing sectors to study the impact of firing restrictions on job flow dynamics across 14 European countries. We find that more stringent firing laws dampen the response of job destruction to the cycle, thus making job...
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This paper analyses theoretically and empirically how employment subsidies should betargeted. We contrast measures involving targeting workers with low incomes/abilities andtargeting the unemployed under the criteria of "approximate welfare efficiency" (AWE)...
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the traditional survey-based unemployment rate versus big-data-based JPCs in capturing labor market transitions in the … predict individuals' transitions between employment and unemployment. Unlike with the unemployment rate, we not only examine … disaggregated levels. Our findings suggest that JPCs and the unemployment rate provide comparable predictive power for labor market …
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Wage decompositions suggest that a large share of the gender wage gap can be explained by differences in occupation and employer choices. If female workers are not well informed about these pay differences, increasing wage transparency might alleviate the gender gap. We test this hypothesis by...
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, this transformation took place within just a few years. Untilthe mid-2000s job opportunities were scarce and unemployment … was high. But since thenlabor demand has picked up and unemployment has dropped substantially. In contrast to theearlier …
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, this transformation took place within just a few years. Until the mid-2000s job opportunities were scarce and unemployment … was high. But since then labor demand has picked up and unemployment has dropped substantially. In contrast to the earlier …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316640
Existing research has shown that job displacement leads to large and persistent earnings losses for men, but evidence … persisting five years after job displacement. This is partly explained by a higher propensity of women to take up part-time or …
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