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I use the European Community Household Panel to ask whether unemployment affects the relationship between education and … from the experience of unemployment. This result partially compensates the fact that more education reduces the incidence … subsequent earnings growth. show that individuals with more education have more to lose in terms of subsequent earnings growth …
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We analyse the effects of demographic and education changes on unemployment rates in Europe. Using a panel of European … (education boom), even when controlling for skill-biased technological change, reduce the unemployment of the more educated … countries for the 1980-2000 period - disaggregated by cohort, gender and education -, we empirically test the economic effects …
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This paper examines whether the chances of job placements improve if unemployed persons are counselled by caseworkers … who belong to the same social group, defined by gender, age, education, and nationality. Based on an unusually informative …
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This paper examines whether immigrants increase the likelihood of unemployment among native-born workers in the … European Union. Earlier papers measure the presence of immigrants in the local labor market by computing the share of the …-born workers? assessment of the number of immigrants in the local market. By doing so, the association between unemployment of …
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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 force transitions are likely to be confounded by the endogeneity of …
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This study assesses the effects of education on both job search intensity and re-employment success for unemployed … workers. Given that the positive correlation between education and job search intensity or re-employment success is likely to … that education both significantly increases job search intensity and significantly improves re-employment success for the …
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equilibrium setting, the underlining mechanism works through wage moderation and job creation. The benefits make it more important … to hold a job, thus lower wages will be accepted, and more jobs created. Moreover, we show that the incentive to acquire … higher education improves, further boosting employment in the long run. These positive effects help counteracting the …
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This paper analyses the impact of government grants on labour demand using plant leveldata for manufacturing industry in Ireland. Our data consists of a large sample of plants andtheir complete grant history...
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Many aspects of the economic transition which started in 1989 in Poland are by nowcomplete. However, the route Polish governments have so far taken concerning the systemof support for low-income families still implies very different poverty alleviation schemescompared to those found in many...
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We estimate the wage penalty associated with working in the South African informal sector.To this end we use a rich data set on non-self employed males that allows one to accuratelydistinguish workers employed in the informal sector from those employed in the formal sectorand link individuals...
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