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Offshoring and Labor Markets
Hummels, David L. - 2016
In this paper we survey the recent empirical literature on the effects of offshoring on wage, employment and displacement. We start with an overview of the measurement of offshoring, organizing our discussion around the three key elements of offshoring: that it involves intermediate inputs for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012997459
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Does Employment Protection Help Immigrants? Evidence from European Labor Markets
Sá, Filipa - 2010
High levels of employment protection reduce hiring and firing and have a theoretically ambiguous effect on the employment level. Immigrants, being new to the labor market, may be less aware of employment protection regulations and less likely to claim their rights, which may create a gap between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759354
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Did the Hartz Reforms Speed-Up Job Creation? A Macro-Evaluation Using Empirical Matching Functions
Fahr, Rene - 2006
market flows and reduce unemployment duration. Without attempting to evaluate the specific components of these Hartz reforms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012778974
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The Detrimental Effect of Job Protection on Employment : Evidence from France
Cahuc, Pierre - 2019
just after. The layoff costs and its procedural component are evaluated thanks to the estimation of a search and matching … the fragility of low-seniority jobs implies that layoff costs reduce the average job duration and increase unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012868796
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End-of-Year Spending and the Long-Run Employment Effects of Training Programs for the Unemployed
Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2017
This study re-estimates the employment effects of training programs for the unemployed using exogenous variation in participation caused by budget rules in Germany in the 1980s and early 1990s, resulting in the infamous "end-of-year spending". In addition to estimating complier effects with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012966067
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Does the Employment Effect of National Minimum Wage Vary by Non-Employment Rate? A Regression Discontinuity Approach
Xu, Lei; Zhu, Yu - 2022
We examine the impact of increasing minimum wage on employment by exploiting variation in the age-dependent National Minimum Wage (NMW) in the UK. We extend the Regression Discontinuity model to evaluate the procyclicality of employment effect and show that previous estimates may be biased due...
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The Employment Effects of Job Creation Schemes in Germany : A Microeconometric Evaluation
Caliendo, Marco; Hujer, Reinhard; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2021
In this paper we evaluate the employment effects of job creation schemes on the participating individuals in Germany. Job creation schemes are a major element of active labour market policy in Germany and are targeted at long-term unemployed and other hard-to-place individuals. Access to very...
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Training the Unemployed in France : How Does it Affect Unemployment Duration and Recurrence?
Crepon, Bruno; Ferracci, Marc; Fougère, Denis - 2021
policies on transition rates out of unemployment. We perform the first evaluation of training effects for the unemployed adults … in France, exploiting a unique longitudinal dataset from the unemployment insurance system. Using the so-called timing … unemployment, but has a significant and positive effect on the duration of the subsequent employment spell. Accounting for training …
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Should Easier Access to International Credit Replace Foreign Aid?
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu - 2011
We examine the interaction between foreign aid and binding borrowing constraint for a recipient country. We also analyze how these two instruments affect economic growth via non-linear relationships. First of all, we develop a two-country, two-period trade-theoretic model to develop testable...
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Remittances, Migrants' Education and Immigration Policy : Theory and Evidence from Bilateral Data
Docquier, Frédéric - 2011
We investigate the relationship between remittances and migrants' education both theoretically and empirically, using … original bilateral remittance data. At a theoretical level we lay out a model of remittances interacting migrants' human … between remittances and migrants' education is ambiguous and depends on the immigration policy conducted at destination. The …
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