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The Impact of Arab Spring on Hiring and Separation Rates in the Tunisian Labour Market
Haouas, Ilham - 2015
This paper analyses the hiring and separation rates in Tunisia before and after the Arab Spring of 2011. Several models are specified to study employment decisions based on quarterly administrative firm level data over the period of 2007 to 2012. The data provides information about important...
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Re-Employment Bonuses in a Signalling Model of Temporary Layoffs
Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2021
Temporary layoffs are an important feature of the United States labor market. If these employer-employee relationships exist because of valuable job-matches, unemployment among high-productivity laid-off workers may be optimal from societal perspective. However, because of asymmetric...
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Temporary Overpessimism : Job Loss Expectations Following a Large Negative Employment Shock
Emmler, Julian; Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2021
experiencing a large negative employment shock, East German workers were still overpessimistic immediately after reunification with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013243106
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Job Search During the COVID-19 Crisis
Hensvik, Lena - 2020
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 scope and direction of search change. Job seekers respond to the shock by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833886
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Job Displacement and Migrant Labor Market Assimilation
Balgova, Maria; Illing, Hannah - 2023
This paper sheds new light on the barriers to migrants' labor market assimilation. Using administrative data for Germany from 1997-2016, we estimate dynamic difference-in-differences regressions to investigate the relative trajectory of earnings, wages, and employment following mass layoff...
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Severance Pay Mandates : Firing Costs, Hiring Costs, and Firm Avoidance Behaviors
Parsons, Donald O. - 2011
The potentially adverse labor market effects of severance pay mandates are a continuing source of policy concern. In a seminal study, Lazear (1990) found that contract avoidance of severance pay firing costs was theoretically simple – a bonding scheme would do – but that empirically the...
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Recruitment Policies, Job-Filling Rates and Matching Efficiency
Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos - 2020
Recruitment behavior is important for the matching process in the labor market. Using unique linked survey …-administrative data, we explore the relationships between hiring and recruitment policies. Faster hiring goes along with higher search … directed search model in which firms use different recruitment margins in response to productivity shocks. The calibrated model …
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Revisiting the Hypothesis of High Discounts and High Unemployment
Martellini, Paolo - 2019
We revisit the hypothesis that labor market fluctuations are driven by shocks to the discount rate. Using a model in which the UE and the EU rates are endogenous, we show that an increase in the discount rate leads to a decline in both the UE and the EU rates. In the data, though, the UE and EU...
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Firm-Level Hiring Difficulties : Persistence, Business Cycle and Local Labour Market Influences
Fabling, Richard - 2013
We examine the correlates of reported hiring difficulties at the firm level using linked employer-employee and panel survey data over 2005-2011, focussing on the relative influence of firm-level characteristics, persistence, the business cycle and local labour market liquidity. At both the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013077315
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Teacher Allocation and School Performance in Italy
Bryson, Alex - 2020
Italy's secondary school system has faced funding constraints for many years which limits availability of new permanent job slots for teachers. When permanent posts do arise they are allocated mostly on seniority while merit only plays a small role. Thus, the age distribution of teachers in...
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