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So many rocket scientists, so few marketing clerks: estimating the effects of economic reform on occupational mobility in Estonia
Campos, Nauro F.; Dabušinskas, Aurelijus - 2008
Why do workers change occupations? This paper investigates occupational mobility and its determinants following a large unexpected shock (communism's collapse in 1989.) Our calculations show that from 1989 to 1995 between 35 and 50 percent of Estonian workers changed occupations (classified at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272341
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Job search, human capital and wage inequality
Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos - 2012
The objective of this paper is to construct and quantitatively assess an equilibrium search model with on-the-job search and general human capital accumulation. In the model workers enter the labour market with different abilities and firms differ in their productivities. Wages are dispersed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290001
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Interpreting Europe and US Labor Markets Differences: The Specificity of Human Capital Investments
Wasmer, Etienne - 2002
little employment protection and low unemployment benefits, while the European model (generous benefits and higher duration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262696
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Dismissal protection and worker flows in OECD countries: Evidence from cross-country/cross-industry data
Bassanini, Andrea; Garnero, Andrea - 2012
Exploiting a unique dataset including cross-country comparable hiring and separation rates by type of transition for 24 OECD countries, 23 business-sector industries and 13 years, we study the effect of dismissal regulations on different types of gross worker flows, defined as one-year...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282637
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Occupational Mobility and Wage Inequality
Kambourov, Gueorgui; Manovskii, Iourii - 2004
period. A distinguishing feature of the theory is that it accounts for changes in within-group wage inequality and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261938
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Individuals' Unemployment Experiences: Heterogeneity and Business Cycle Effects
Kalwij, Adriaan S. - 2001
This study examines individuals? unemployment experiences from the age of 18 up to the age of 35 using a large panel of … administrative records on unemployment related benefit claims of men in the United Kingdom over the past two decades. The main focus … is on the extent to which individuals? unemployment experiences are affected by regional and skill differences, i …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262576
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Regional unemployment and human capital in transition economies
Jurajda, Štepán; Terrell, Katherine - 2007
Differences in regional unemployment in post-communist economies are large and persistent. We show that inherited … variation in human-capital endowment across the regions of four such economies explains the bulk of regional unemployment … pattern, which helps explain the lack of convergence in regional unemployment rates, is consistent with the presence of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274345
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Immigrants and Unemployment in the European Community: From the Eyes of Natives
Gang, Ira N.; Rivera-Batiz, Francisco L.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 1999
This paper examines whether immigrants increase the likelihood of unemployment among native-born workers in the …-born workers? assessment of the number of immigrants in the local market. By doing so, the association between unemployment of … immigrants and unemployment among native-born workers. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277289
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German Job Mobility and Wages
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1998
The paper investigates the relative importance of job mobility for wages in comparison with the human capital framework and the industry approach. Using German panel data, changes of workplaces within the firm as well as between the firms are carefully separated from occupational changes....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262252
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The inter-related dynamics of dual job holding, human capital and occupational choice
Panos, Georgios A.; Pouliakas, Konstantinos; … - 2009
The inter-related dynamics of dual job-holding, human capital and occupational choice between primary and secondary jobs are investigated, using a panel sample (1991-2005) of UK employees from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS). A sequential profile of the working lives of employees is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271274