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Unemployment or Overeducation : Which is a Worse Signal to Employers?
Baert, Stijn - 2014
This study aims at estimating the stigma effect of unemployment and overeducation within one framework. To this end, we … from the employer side, we find evidence for a larger stigma effect of unemployment than overeducation. The stigma effect …
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Hiring Freeze and Bankruptcy in Unemployment Dynamics
Garibaldi, Pietro - 2021
unemployment. The model features both hiring freeze and bankruptcies, where the former represents a sudden shut down of vacancy … Pissarides matching model account for 10 percent of the cyclical variability of the vacancy unemployment ratio displayed by U …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317467
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China's Labor Market Demand in the Shadow of COVID-19 : Evidence from an Online Job Board
Zeng, Xiangquan; Chu, Shuai; Chen, Xuan - 2022
Using data of the largest online job board in China, Zhaopin.com, we examine the impacts of the lockdown policy on the Chinese labor market demand during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. The analyses reveal that the lockdown policy, which was implemented in Wuhan on January 23, 2020,...
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Do Chinese Employers Avoid Hiring Overqualified Workers? Evidence from an Internet Job Board
Shen, Kailing - 2012
Can having more education than a job requires reduce one's chances of being offered the job? We study this question in a sample of applications to jobs that are posted on an urban Chinese website. We find that being overqualified in this way does not reduce the success rates of...
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Part-Time Unemployment and Optimal Unemployment Insurance
Ek, Susanne - 2011
the design of optimal unemployment insurance in an economy with unemployment as well as part-time unemployment. Part …-time unemployment provides income insurance and serves as a stepping stone to full-time jobs. Unemployment benefits for part …-timers increase the outflow from unemployment to part-time work but reduce the outflow from part-time work to full-time employment. We …
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Counteracting Unemployment in Crises : Non-Linear Effects of Short-Time Work Policy
Gehrke, Britta - 2018
Short-time work is a labor market policy that subsidizes working time reductions among firms in financial difficulty to prevent layoffs. Many OECD countries have used this policy in the Great Recession. This paper shows that the effects of short-time work are strongly time dependent and...
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Testing Theories of Job Creation : Does Supply Create its Own Demand?
Carlsson, Mikael - 2007
Search-matching theory has come to dominate labor economics in recent years, but few attempts have been made to compare the empirical relevance of search-matching theory to efficiency wage and bargaining theories, where employment is determined by labor demand. In this paper we formulate an...
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The Elasticity of Labor Demand and the Optimal Minimum Wage
Danziger, Leif - 2006
Contrary to widespread belief, we show that low-pay workers might not generally prefer that the minimum wage rate be increased to a level where the labor demand is unitary elastic. Rather, there exists a critical value of elasticity of labor demand such that increases in the minimum wage rate...
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Can Training Programs or Rather Wage Subsidies Bring the Unemployed Back to Work? A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation for Germany
Neubäumer, Renate - 2010
unemployment after program end we estimate the effect of keeping a subsidized job versus participating in training and taking up a …
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How Does the Covid-19 Crisis Affect Labor Demand? An Analysis Using Job Board Data from Austria
Bamieh, Omar; Ziegler, Lennart - 2021
This study uses data from the largest Austrian job board to examine labor-demand responses in the first months after the start of the COVID lockdown in March 2020. Our analysis shows that the number of job postings declined by a third and remained low even when implemented restrictions were...
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