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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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Unraveling Results from Comparable Demand and Supply : An Experimental Investigation

Niederle, Muriel - 2010

, matching can occur (inefficiently) early only when there is comparable demand and supply: a surplus of applicants, but a …

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Adjusted Estimates of Worker Flows and Job Openings in Jolts

Davis, Steven J. - 2010

We develop and implement a method to improve estimates of worker flows and job openings based on the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS). Our method involves reweighting the cross-sectional density of employment growth rates in JOLTS to match the corresponding density in the...

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Measuring Job-Finding Rates and Matching Efficiency with Heterogeneous Jobseekers

Hall, Robert E. - 2015

Matching efficiency is the productivity of the process for matching jobseekers to available jobs. Job-finding is the … output; vacant jobs and active jobseekers are the inputs. Measurement of matching efficiency follows the same principles as … measuring an index of productivity of production. We develop a framework for measuring matching productivity when the population …

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Health, Financial Incentives, and Early Retirement : Micro-Simulation Evidence for Germany

Juerges, Hendrik - 2014

About 20% of German workers retire on disability pensions. Disability pensions provide fairly generous benefits for those who are not already age-eligible for an old-age pension and who are deemed unable to work for health reasons. In this paper, we use two sets of individual survey data to...

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A Formal Test of Assortative Matching in the Labor Market

Abowd, John M. - 2012

We estimate a structural model of job assignment in the presence of coordination frictions due to Shimer (2005). The coordination friction model places restrictions on the joint distribution of worker and firm effects from a linear decomposition of log labor earnings. These restrictions permit...

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Health Capacity to Work at Older Ages in France

Blanchet, Didier - 2016

France stands out as a country with a low labor force attachment of older workers. A reversal in the trend of French labor participation rates over 50 is under way, partly due to the pension reforms that took place since 1993. The French ageing process is driven by large gains in life expectancy...

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Health Capacity to Work at Older Ages in Denmark

Bingley, Paul - 2016

Longevity is increasing and many people are spending a greater proportion of their lives reliant on pensions to support consumption. In response to this, several countries have mandated delays to age of first entitlement to pension benefits in order to reduce incentives to retire early. However,...

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Preference Signaling in Matching Markets

Coles, Peter A. - 2010

Many labor markets share three stylized facts: employers cannot give full attention to all candidates, candidates are ready to provide information about their preferences for particular employers, and employers value and are prepared to act on this information. In this paper we study how a...

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Health and Work at Older Ages : Using Mortality to Assess the Capacity to Work Across Countries

Milligan, Kevin S. - 2013

Health and longevity have increased substantially over the last 50 years, yet the labor force participation of older men has declined in most developed countries. We use mortality as a measure of health to assess the capacity to work at older ages in 12 OECD countries. For a given level of...

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