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The Aggregate Labor Market Effects of the Swedish Knowledge Lift Program

Albrecht, James; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Vroman, Susan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

The Swedish adult education program known as the Knowledge Lift (1997-2002) was unprecedented in its size and scope, aiming to raise the skill level of large numbers of lowskill workers. This paper evaluates the potential effects of this program on aggregate labor market outcomes. This is done...

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Everything you always wanted to know about sex discrimination

Cardoso, Ana Rute; Guimarães, Paulo; Portugal, Pedro - 2012

Earlier literature on the gender pay gap has taught us that occupations matter and so do firms. However, the role of the firm has received little scrutiny; occupations have most often been coded in a rather aggregate way, lumping together different jobs; and the use of samples of workers...

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Active Labor Market Policy Effects for Women in Europe: A Survey

Bergemann, Annette; Berg, Gerard J. van den - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

We survey the recent literature on the effects of active labor market policies on individual labor market outcomes like employment and income, for adult female individuals without work in European countries. We consider skill-training programs, monitoring and sanctions, job search assistance,...

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Six ways to leave unemployment

Portugal, Pedro; Addison, John T. - 2003

This paper uses a unique Portuguese data set to examine the effect of unemployment benefit receipt and maximum duration … of benefits on escape rates from unemployment. The focus is on the time profile of transitions out of unemployment. The … disincentive effects of the unemployment benefit system is reported. This result obtains both in general and for the various …

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How does the unemployment insurance system shape the time profile of jobless duration?

Addison, John T.; Portugal, Pedro - 2004

This paper examines the effects of unemployment insurance on escape rates from unemployment using data from the 1998 … Displaced Worker Survey. Transitions from unemployment to employment are modeled using a flexible representation of the baseline … hazard function and allowing for discrete changes through time in the effects of unemployment insurance benefits, as well as …

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Job Search Methods and Outcomes

Addison, John T.; Portugal, Pedro - 2001

Using Portuguese data, this paper investigates the effects of job search methods on escape rates from unemployment and …

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Unemployment Duration: Competing and Defective Risks

Addison, John T.; Portugal, Pedro - 2001

This paper examines the determinants of unemployment duration in a competing risks framework with two destination … unemployment. Although we do not reject the null of proportionality, abandoning the proportionality assumption does not materially …

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Bargained Wages, Wage Drift and the Design of the Wage Setting System

Cardoso, Ana Rute; Portugal, Pedro - 2003

bargaining, extension mechanisms and national minimum wage - coexist with low unemployment rate and high wage flexibility? A …

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Wages and the risk of displacement

Carneiro, Anabela; Portugal, Pedro - 2006

In this paper a simultaneous-equations model of firm closing and wage determination is developed in order to analyse how wages adjust to unfavorable shocks that raise the risk of displacement through firm closing, and to what extent a wage change affects the exit likelihood. Using a longitudinal...

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Reservation Wages, Search Duration, and Accepted Wages in Europe

Addison, John T.; Centeno, Mário; Portugal, Pedro - 2004

offers, the determinants of reservation wages, transitions out of unemployment, and accepted wages. In this exploratory … wages do decline with the jobless spell (and aggregate unemployment); that transitions out of unemployment exhibit strong …

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