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Who is hit hardest during a financial crisis? The vulnerability of young men and women to unemployment in an economic downturn

Verick, Sher - 2009

The current financial and economic crisis has resulted in the worst global recession since World War II. The subsequent destruction of jobs and increased duration of joblessness will ensure that unemployment across the world will continue to rise and stay stubbornly high for some time to come,...

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What should be done about rising unemployment in the UK?

Bell, David N.F.; Blanchflower, David G. - 2009

This paper considers the issue of unemployment one of the most pressing issues facing the UK and other governments, as the current recessions deepens. It begins by trying to accurately date the beginning of the current downturn in the British economy, arguing that it is clear that the recession...

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What should be done about rising unemployment in the OECD?

Bell, David N.F.; Blanchflower, David G. - 2009

There is a growing belief that the recession has run its course and that the goods market has started a period of slow, but sustainable, recovery. Improvement in the labor market may take some time, but many believe that unemployment will return to its 2007 level in the medium term. In this...

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The matching method for treatment evaluation with selective participation and ineligibles

Costa Dias, Monica; Ichimura, Hidehiko; van den Berg, … - 2008

The matching method for treatment evaluation does not balance selective unobserved differences between treated and non-treated. We derive a simple correction term if there is an instrument that shifts the treatment probability to zero in specific cases. Policies with eligibility restrictions,...

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Scarring effects of the first labor market experience

Skans, Oskar Nordström - 2011

The paper studies the relationship between teenagers' first labor market experience and subsequent labor market performance using data on all Swedish youths graduating from vocational high schools in the recession years of 1991-94. Sibling fixed-effects combined with detailed data on high school...

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Do employers use unemployment as a sorting criterion when hiring? Evidence from a field experiment

Eriksson, Stefan; Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2011

In this paper, we use unique data from a field experiment in the Swedish labor market to investigate how past and contemporary unemployment affect a young worker's probability of being invited to a job interview. In contrast to studies using registry/survey data, we have complete control over...

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Explaining Youth Labor Market Problems in Spain: Crowding-Out, Institutions, or Technology Shifts?

Jimeno, Juan F.; Felgueroso, Florentino; Dolado, Juan José - 2000

This paper examines the empirical evidence regarding the poor performance of the youth labor market in Spain over the last two decades, which entails very high unemployment for both higher and lower educated workers, symptoms of over-education, and low intensity of on-the-job training. It also...

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Der Arbeitsmarkt in Deutschland: zwischen Strukturreformen und sozialpolitischem Reflex

Eichhorst, Werner - 2007

Beschäftigungsmodells zum Teil gelindert - allerdings sind noch längst nicht alle Schwierigkeiten überwunden. Für die Zukunft besteht die … und dabei der Prävention von Arbeitslosigkeit durch Aus- und Weiterbildung klare Priorität gegenüber der passiven … Kompensation von Arbeitslosigkeit zu geben. Die aktuelle politische Diskussion vernachlässigt dies. Erfolg versprechender als eine …

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China's higher education expansion and its labor market consequences

Li, Shi; Xing, Chunbing - 2010

Using a 1/5 random draw of the 1% census of 2005, we investigate how China's higher education expansion commenced in 1999 affects the education opportunities of various population groups and how this policy affects the labor market. Treating the expansion as an experiment and using a LATE...

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The Baby Boom and World War II:A Macroeconomic Analysis

Doepke, Matthias; Hazan, Moshe; Maoz, Yishay - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

We argue that one major cause of the U.S. postwar baby boom was the increased demandfor female labor during World War II. We develop a quantitative dynamic general equilibriummodel with endogenous fertility and female labor-force participation decisions...

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