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Making Sense of Arab Labor Markets: The Enduring Legacy of Dualism

Assaad, Ragui - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

It is well-established that Arab labor markets share certain common characteristics, including an oversized public sector, high unemployment for educated youth, weak private sector dependent on government welfare for their survival, rapid growth in educational attainment, but much of it focused...

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The Cycle of Earnings Inequality: Evidence from Spanish Social Security Data

Bonhomme, Stephane; Hospido, Laura - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We use detailed information on labor earnings and employment from social security records to document the evolution of earnings inequality in Spain from 1988 to 2010. Male earnings inequality was strongly countercyclical: it increased around the 1993 recession, showed a substantial decrease...

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Empirical Labor Search: A Survey

Eckstein, Zvi; den Berg, Gerard J. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

This paper surveys the existing empirical research that uses search theory to empirically analyze labor supply questions in a structural framework, using data on individual labor market transitions and durations, wages, and individual characteristics. The starting points of the literature are...

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

Puhani, Patrick A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment … in Germany increased (unlike in the U.S. and Britain, where it fell). British and German evidence is further backed up … with alternative data sets for these countries. I find evidence for the Krugman hypothesis when Germany is compared to the …

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Skill Wage Premia, Employment, and Cohort Effects: Are Workers in Germany All of the Same Type?

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Kohn, Karsten - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

This paper studies the relationship between employment and wage structures in West Germany based on the IAB employment …

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Is Germany the North Star of Labor Market Policy?

Rinne, Ulf; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Germany's recovery from an unemployment disease and its resilience to the Great Recession is remarkable. Its success …

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Central School Exit Exams and Labor-Market Outcomes

Piopiunik, Marc; Schwerdt, Guido; Woessmann, Ludger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Many countries use centralized exit exams as a governance devise of the school system. While abundant evidence suggests positive effects of central exams on achievement tests, previous research on university-bound students shows no effects on subsequent earnings. We suggest that labor-market...

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Offshoring and Labour Market Reforms: Modelling the German Experience

Beissinger, Thomas; Chusseau, Nathalie; Hellier, Joël - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

German economy since 1995: 1) Germany offshores more intensively than other advanced countries; 2) The increase in … Germany would have occurred without the Hartz reforms, but later and less intensively. We finally discuss the possible …

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Wage Rigidities in Western Germany? Microeconometric Evidence from the 1990s

Puhani, Patrick A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

This paper investigates whether and in what sense the west German wage structure has been ‘rigid’ in the 1990s. To test the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a methodology which makes less restrictive identifying...

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