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We use twin data matched to register-based individual information on earnings and employment to examine the effect of …
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jobs. By contrast, we find no significant effect as regards separations involving an industry change or leading to non-employment …
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Using longitudinal data on individuals from the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) for eleven countries during … average in the shortest duration jobs. These results are robust to disaggregation by gender and by country. These empirical …
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, resulting in high excess worker turnover flows. These flows are constrained by the employment protection gap between open …-ended and fixed-term contracts. We explore a reform that increased the employment protection of open-ended contracts and …
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We investigate wage differences between newly hired and incumbent employees in identical functions using detailed personnel data from a large number of banks. We first show in a formal model of job switching that (i) incumbents earn less than new recruits when human capital is mostly general but...
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line with the private sector. Our paper proposes an estimation of differences in lifetime values of employment between … public and private sectors for five European countries. We use data from the European Community Household Panel over the … because, as we show in our results, differences in earnings mobility, earnings volatility and job loss risk across sectors …
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Worldwide, 600 million jobs are needed over the next 15years to keep employment rates at their current level. Because … most employment in low and middle income countries is in micro-, small and medium-sized enterprises, governments, non …-governmental organizations and donors spend on targeted programs and broader policies to enhance employment creation in these firms. But despite …
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Are employers willing to employ more older individuals, in particular older women? Higher employment among the older … considering the demand side of the labour market for older individuals, few have considered its gender dimension properly; despite … evidence that lifting the overall senior employment rate in the EU requires significantly raising that of women older than 50 …
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This paper develops a matching model of the labor market with heterogeneous firms, on-the-job search and family referrals. The overall effect of referrals on wages can be decomposed into three distinct components. First, if referrals are used to help unemployed partners find jobs, then...
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This paper incorporates job search through personal contacts into an equilibrium matching model with a segregated labor market. Firms can post wage offers in the regular job market, alternatively they can save on advertising costs and rely on word-of-mouth communication. Wages are then...
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