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To study or to work? Education and labour market participation of young people in Poland

Pastore, Francesco - 2005

This paper proposes Heckprobit estimates of the determinants of labour market participation of a sample of young (15-30) Poles, controlling for the sample selection bias caused by excluding those in education. There is evidence of sample selection bias in the case of young men, suggesting that...

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To Study or to Work? Education and Labour Market Participation of Young People in Poland

Pastore, Francesco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

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Labour Market Policy and the Equity-Efficiency Trade-Off

Filges, Trine; Kennes, John; Larsen, Birthe; Tranæs, Torben - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper studies labour market policy in a society where differently gifted individuals can invest in training to further increase their labour market productivity. Furthermore, the seeks both efficiency and equity. Frictions in the matching process create unemployment and differently skilled...

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The financial crisis, labor market transitions and earnings: A gendered panel data analysis for Serbia

Blunch, Niels-Hugo; Sulla, Victor - 2011

While results are starting to emerge, not much is known yet about the dynamics of the labor markets of the former Eastern economies, especially in the context of the current Financial Crisis. Arguably, this is mainly due to paucity of (panel) data. By examining labor market transitions, earnings...

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Job creation and job destruction in Estonia: labour reallocation and structural changes

Masso, Jaan; Eamets, Raul; Philips, Kaia - 2005

This article documents and analyses gross job flows and their determinants in Estonia over the years 1995-2001, using a database containing the population of officially registered firms in Estonia (all in all 52,000). Our results show that job creation and job destruction rates have been rather...

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Do unemployment benefits promote or hinder structural change?

Boeri, Tito; Macis, Mario - 2008

According to recent and largely untested theories, unemployment benefits (UBs) could improve the extent and quality of job reallocation even at the cost of increasing unemployment. Using yearly panel data from a large number of countries, we evaluate empirically the relationship between...

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They are even larger! More (on) puzzling labor market volatilities

Gartner, Hermann; Merkl, Christian; Rothe, Thomas - 2009

This paper shows that the German labor market is more volatile than the US labor market. Specifically, the volatility of the cyclical component of several labor market variables (e.g., the job-finding rate, labor market tightness, and job vacancies) divided by the volatility of labor...

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Tenures that Shook the World: Worker Turnover in Russia, Poland and Britain

Lehmann, Hartmut; Wadsworth, Jonathan - 1999

flatter in Russia than and steeper and lower in Poland than in Britain. The characteristics of workers hired in the state and … private sectors do not look very different. State and private sector firms in Poland offer the same wages to new recruits, but … of a continued job match unsure, offset, in Poland at least, by insider resistance to layoffs. …

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Individual Pay and Outside Options: Evidence from the Polish Labour Force Survey

Duffy, Fiona; Walsh, Patrick Paul - 2001

Using Polish Labour Force Survey data, we examine whether competition for labour has induced individual pay to depend on outside options, availability and quality of jobs. Exploiting the lack of inter-regional job and worker flows we estimate the elasticity of individual pay, amongst a rich set...

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Labor Mobility, Trade and Social Capital

Schiff, Maurice - 2004

Labor market integration raises welfare in the absence of distortions. This paper examines labor and goods market integration in a general equilibrium model with social capital. The findings are: i) labor market integration has an ambiguous impact on welfare, and raises it if the goods produced...

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