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Flexibility vs. Rigidity: Does Spain have the worst of both Worlds?

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2000

In this paper we study the structure of labor market flows in Spain and compare them with France and the US. We characterize a number of empirical regularities and stylized facts. One striking result is that the job finding rate is slightly higher than in France, while the job loss rate is much...

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Unemployment insurance and entrepreneurship

Røed, Knut; Baumgarten Skogstrøm, Jens Fredrik - 2013

programs (ALMP) affect the transition rates from unemployment to regular employment and entrepreneurship. We find that the … entrepreneurship hazard is highly responsive with respect to UI incentives, and that the probability of starting up a new business … employment hazard, it has no effect on entrepreneurship. We speculate that this reflects the programs' one-sided focus on job …

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Work, jobs and well-being across the millennium

Clark, Andrew E. - 2009

This paper uses repeated cross-section data ISSP data from 1989, 1997 and 2005 to consider movements in job quality. It is first underlined that not having a job when you want one is a major source of low well-being. Second, job values have remained fairly stable over time, although workers seem...

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Labour market status and migration dynamics

Bijwaard, Govert E. - 2009

In this empirical paper we assess how labour market transitions and out- and repeated migration of immigrants are interrelated. We estimate a multi-state multiple spell competing risks model with four states: employed, unemployed receiving benefits, out-of-the-labour market (no benefits) and...

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The Employment, Unemployment and Unemployment Compensation Benefits of Immigrants

Hurst, Michael E.; Chiswick, Barry R. - 2000

behavior of the foreign born within the context of an immigrant adjustment model based on the imperfect transferability of …

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The Rise and Fall of Swiss Unemployment: Relative Demand Shocks, Wage Rigidities, and Temporary Immigrants

Puhani, Patrick A. - 2003

Switzerland, traditionally a ?zero unemployment? economy, has seen an unprecedented rise in joblessness in the 1990s although unemployment fell again to a rather low level after 1997. This paper tests whether Switzerland experienced a negative relative net demand shock against the low skilled...

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A Test of the ?Krugman Hypothesis? for the United States, Britain, and Western Germany

Puhani, Patrick A. - 2003

Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment (with rather stable wage inequality) have led to a popular view in the economics profession that these two phenomena are related to negative relative demand shocks against the...

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How important are labor market institutions for labor market performance in transition countries?

Lehmann, Hartmut; Muravyev, Alexander - 2009

This paper offers a first comprehensive study of the relationship between labor market institutions and policies and labor market performance in the countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia, which in the last two decades experienced radical economic and institutional transformations. Based...

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Labour market dynamics in Australia: what drives unemployment?

Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Héctor - 2009

The debate in Australia on the (constant-output) elasticity of labour demand with respect to wages has wrongly sidelined the role of capital stock as a determinant of employment (Webster, 2003). As far back as 1991, Pissarides had argued that the influence of capital stock on the performance of...

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Worker Identity, Employment Fluctuations and Stabilization Policy

Snower, Dennis J.; Lechthaler, Wolfgang - 2013

This paper provides a model of social hysteresis whereby long, deep recessions demotivate workers and thereby lead them to change their work ethic. In switching from a pro-work to an anti-work identity, their incentives to seek and retain work fall and consequently their employment chances fall....

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