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Career Progression and Formal Versus On-the-Job Training

Adda, Jérôme; Dustmann, Christian; Meghir, Costas; … - 2021

We develop a dynamic discrete choice model of training choice, employment and wage growth, allowing for job mobility, in a world where wages depend on firm-worker matches, as well as experience and tenure and jobs take time to locate. We estimate this model on a large administrative panel data...

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Does Extending Unemployment Benefits Improve Job Quality?

Nekoei, Arash - 2015

Contrary to standard search model predictions, prior studies failed to estimate a positive effect of unemployment insurance (UI) on reemployment wages. This paper estimates a positive UI wage effect exploiting an age-based regression discontinuity in Austrian administrative data. A search model...

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A New Regional Geography of Europe? The Labour Market Impact of the EU Enlargements

Caroleo, Floro Ernesto - 2007

This paper provides a critical overview and a detailed research agenda for scholars interested in regional studies with a special focus on old and new European Union member states. The focus is on the microeconomic foundations of structural change and its spatially asymmetric impact on labour...

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Did the Hartz Reforms Speed-Up Job Creation? A Macro-Evaluation Using Empirical Matching Functions

Fahr, René - 2006

, in speeding up the matching process between unemployed and vacant jobs. The analysis is conceptually rooted in the flow …-based view underlying the reforms, estimating the structural features of the matching process. The results indicate that the … reforms indeed had an impact in making the labor market more dynamic and accelerating the matching process …

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Business Cycle Dependent Unemployment Insurance

Andersen, Torben M. - 2010

The consequences of business cycle contingencies in unemployment insurance systems are considered in a search-matching …

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The Effect of Sanctions on the Job Finding Rate : Evidence from Denmark

Svarer, Michael - 2008

This paper investigates the effect of sanctions of unemployment insurance benefits on the exit rate from unemployment for a sample of Danish unemployed. According to the findings are that even moderate sanctions have rather large effects. For both males and females the exit rate increases by...

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Parental Unemployment, Social Insurance and Child Well-Being Across Countries

Hansen, Kerstin; Stutzer, Alois - 2021

Based on a unique repeated cross-sectional data set of school-aged children in Europe, the Middle East and North America, we analyze how children's subjective well-being is related to parents' employment status, depending on the institutional context. We find that parental unemployment is...

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Macroeconomic Dynamics in a Model of Goods, Labor and Credit Market Frictions

Petrosky-Nadeau, Nicolas - 2011

Building a model with three imperfect markets – goods, labor and credit – representing a product's life-cycle, we find that goods market frictions drastically change the qualitative and quantitative dynamics of labor market variables. The calibrated model leads to a significant reduction in...

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The Economics of Labor Market Intermediation : An Analytic Framework

Autor, David H. - 2021

, academic standing, or financial integrity. At their most forceful, LMIs such as labor unions and centralized job matching …

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They are Even Larger! More (on) Puzzling Labor Market Volatilities

Gartner, Hermann - 2009

This paper shows that the German labor market is more volatile than the US labor market. Specifically, the volatility of the cyclical component of several labor market variables (e.g., the job-finding rate, labor market tightness, and job vacancies) divided by the volatility of labor...

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