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Signaling in the Labor Market: New Evidence on Layoffs and Plant Closings
Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2004
In my asymmetric-information model of layoffs, high-productivity workers are more likely to be recalled to their former … not have a positive signaling benefit. Analysis of the data from the January 1988-2000 Displaced Workers Supplements to … workers displaced through plant closings in the predicted way, and finds evidence consistent with asymmetric information in …
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Job Search with Nonparticipation
Frijters, Paul; van der Klaauw, Bas - 2004
In a non-stationary job search model we allow unemployed workers to have a permanent option to leave the labor force. Transitions into nonparticipation occur when reservation wages drop below the utility of being nonparticipant. Taking account of these transitions allows the identification of...
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Bestimmungsgründe von Fehlzeiten: Welche Rolle spielt die Arbeitslosigkeit?
Thalmaier, Anja - 1999
Das Ziel der vorliegenden Untersuchung besteht darin, die wesentlichen Determinanten für das Auftreten von Fehlzeiten zu analysieren. In einem ersten Schritt werden die institutionellen Rahmenbedingungen der Entgeltfortzahlung und ihre historische Entwicklung aufgezeigt. Die Analyse...
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Central school exit exams and labor-market outcomes
Piopiunik, Marc; Schwerdt, Guido; Woessmann, Ludger - 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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Unemployment Compensation Finance and Labor Market Rigidity
Cahuc, Pierre; Malherbet, Franck - 2002
matching model of a rigid labor market including firing costs, temporary jobs and a minimum wage in order to analyze the issue …
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Fiscal policy, economic integration and unemployment
Eggert, Wolfgang; Goerke, Laszlo - 2003
In this paper fiscal policy is examined for an open economy characterised by unemployment due to efficiency wages. We allow for capital and firm mobility in a model where the government chooses the level of wage, source-based capital and profit taxation. The taxing choices of governments are...
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Value-added Tax versus Social Security Contributions
Goerke, Laszlo - 1999
In order to alleviate unemployment it is often recommended to reduce social security contributions (SSC) and to compensate for the ensuing loss in revenues by a rise in the value-added tax (VAT). Assuming unemployment to be caused by efficiency wages, it is shown that a balanced-budget shift...
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Job Protection, Minimum Wage and Unemployment
Zylberberg, André; Cahuc, Pierre - 1999
wages are renegotiated by mutual agreement only is introduced in a matching model with endogenous job destruction – la … are not any more neutral, as in the standard matching model where wages are continuously renegotiated: In our framework …
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The impact of education on unemployment incidence and re-employment success: Evidence from the US labour market
Riddell, W. Craig; Song, Xueda - 2011
This study investigates the causal effects of education on individuals' transitions between employment and unemployment, with particular focus on the extent to which education improves re-employment outcomes among unemployed workers. Given that positive correlations between education and labour...
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Do Workers Really Benefit From Their Social Networks?
Fontaine, François - 2004
This paper provides a simple matching model in which unemployed workers and employers in large firms can be matched …
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