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Effects of Employment Protection on Worker and Job Flows : Evidence from the 1990 Italian Reform
Kugler, Adriana D. - 2019
This paper uses the Italian Social Security employer-employee panel to study the effects of the Italian reform of 1990 on worker and job flows. We exploit the fact that this reform increased unjust dismissal costs for firms below 15 employees, while leaving dismissal costs unchanged for bigger...
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Spill-Overs from Good Jobs
Beaudry, Paul - 2010
Does attracting or losing jobs in high paying sectors have important spill-over effects on wages in other sectors? The answer to this question is central to a proper assessment of many trade and industrial policies. In this paper, we explore this question by examining how predictable changes in...
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Time-Series Evidence of the Effect of the Minimum Wage on Youth Employment and Unemployment
Brown, Charles - 2010
the minimum wage on teenage unemployment, or its relative impact on black and white teenagers. The purpose of this paper … unemployment rates of teenagers, we explore several related issues: the relative importance of changing the level and coverage of …
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Striking at the Roots of Crime : The Impact of Social Welfare Spending on Crime During the Great Depression
Johnson, Ryan - 2010
The Great Depression of the 1930s led contemporaries to worry that people hit by hard times would turn to crime in their efforts to survive. Franklin Roosevelt argued that the unprecedented and massive expansion in relief efforts quot;struck at the roots of crimequot; by providing subsistence...
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Reservation Wages and Unemployment Insurance
Shimer, Robert - 2010
welfare. This insight leads to a novel test for the optimality of unemployment insurance based on the responsiveness of … reservation wages to unemployment benefits. Some existing estimates imply significant gains to raising the current level of … unemployment benefits in the United States, but highlight the need for more research on the determinants of reservation wages. Our …
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High School Alcohol Use and Young Adult Labor Market Outcomes
Chatterji, Pinka - 2010
behaviors in 10th grade eliminates the unemployment effect, but strengthens the wage effect. As the latter is not explicable by …
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Market Responses to the Panic of 2008
Mulligan, Casey B. - 2008
employment, GDP, and unemployment. The release of resources from the housing sector lowers investment goods prices, and thereby …
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The Dynamics of Relief Spending and the Private Urban Labor Market During the New Deal
Neumann, Todd - 2014
rates of unemployment. We examine the dynamic relationships between relief spending and local private labor markets using a …
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The Firm's Role in Displaced Workers' Earnings Losses
Scott-Clayton, Judith - 2019
We use employer-employee matched administrative data from Ohio to study the role of firm pay premiums in explaining the large, persistent earnings losses of displaced workers. We estimate that earnings for displaced workers from the mid-2000s are depressed by 22 percent after four years,...
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This Time it's Different : The Role of Women's Employment in a Pandemic Recession
Alon, Titan - 2020
caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, the opposite is true: unemployment is higher among women. In this paper, we analyze the …
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