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Labour market transitions, shocks and institutions in turbulent times : a cross-country analysis

Bachmann, Ronald; Felder, Rahel - 2017

Blanchard and Wolfers (2000) to analyse the role of the interaction of macroeconomic shocks and labour market institutions for … of the unemployment rate and of worker transitions. …

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Governmental policies to reduce unemployment during recessions : insights from an ABM

Bauermann, Tom - 2020

the generosity of unemployment benefits (UB) and short-time work. This paper aims to contribute to the theoretical … unemployment benefits and increasing search efforts, b) a fiscal stimulus and c) short-time work. In contrast to other studies that … from the heterogeneity of agents. I find four main results: 1) a) has nearly no effect on unemployment in the short run and …

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Labour market dynamics and worker heterogeneity during the Great Recession : evidence from Europe

Bachmann, Ronald; Bechara, Peggy; Kramer, Anica; … - 2014

temporary employment, to unemployment were the main factor behind the rise in unemployment; while reduced unemployment outflows … did not contribute substantially to the increase in unemployment during the early phase of the crisis. …

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Biased expectations and labor market outcomes : evidence from German survey data and implications for the East-West wage gap

Balleer, Almut; Duernecker, Georg; Forstner, Susanne; … - 2024

We measure individual bias in labor market expectations in German survey data and find that workers on average significantly overestimate their individual probabilities to separate from their job when employed as well to find a job when unemployed. These biases vary significantly between...

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Cohort size effects on wages, working status, and work time

Okoampah, Sarah - 2016

time is considered rather than contractual work time. It is argued that the restrictive labor market institutions in place …

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Training, wages and a missing school graduation cohort

Dorner, Matthias; Görlitz, Katja - 2020

This study analyzes the effects of a missing high school graduation cohort on firms' training provision and trainees' wages. An exogenous school reform varying at the state and year level caused the missing cohort to occur. Using administrative social security data on all trainees and training...

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Labor market news and expectations about jobs & earnings

Schmidpeter, Bernhard - 2023

I show that workers update expectations about job search and salary growth when exposed to labor market news. To identify the impact of news on expectations, I exploit Foxconn's announcement to build a large production plant in Racine County, Wisconsin. Exposure to positive news leads to an...

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Heterogeneous preferences, spousal interaction, and couples' time-use

Balleer, Almut; Merz, Monika; Papp, Tamás K. - 2024

We study the role of heterogeneous preferences at the spousal level and that of spousal mutual insurance against wage shocks for couples’ labor supply in a time-use model. We estimate the model for couples in the German Time-Use Survey with Bayesian techniques and generate gender-specific...

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Young FSU migrants in Germany : educational attainment and early labor market outcomes

Flake, Regina - 2013

This study analyzes the educational attainment and early labor market outcomes of young migrants from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) who arrived in Germany between 1989 and 1994. The results reveal that migrants have lower educational attainments than natives, and that within the group of...

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The long-term labor market effects of parental unemployment

Schmidpeter, Bernhard - 2020

I investigate the impact of parental unemployment on children's educational attainment and long-run labor market … outcomes in Austria. I find that parental unemployment shortly before an important educational decision by parents for their … results emphasize the intergenerational and longlasting consequences of parental unemployment. …

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