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Laws in most West European countries give workers strong job rights, including the right to advance notice of layoff and the right to severance pay or other compensation if laid off. Many of these same countries also encourage hours adjustment in lieu of layoffs by providing prorated...
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. Other German labor policies, however, most especially the availability of unemployment insurance benefits for those on short …, German employers rely principally on the adjustment of average hours per worker. The adjustment of overall labor input is …
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This paper is based on the first use of program administrative data from Brazil's unemployment insurance (UI) program to assess the impact of changes in UI eligibility criteria on layoff probabilities. We exploit exogenous program changes introduced by executive and legislative changes in 2015...
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interact with one another in the labor market on wage determination and employment. Unlike previous studies, our study examines …
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Two labor supply issues that have received substantial attention are the responsiveness of labor supply to wage changes … and the imposition of labor supply constraints. Adjusting hours worked on a second job may be the practical and perhaps … only available response to either event yet, most labor supply studies only examine behavior on the primary job. Examining …
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This paper examines the labor market outcomes of individuals with various types of postsecondary educational … the labor market rewards credentials. Wage and earnings models yield different structural parameter estimates when based …
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Economists have traditionally had a keen interest in the effects of overall labor demand on the economic well-being of … to local data to determine the effects of labor demand. The wide variety of demand conditions in local economies create a … "natural laboratory" for determining the true effects of overall labor demand. These recent studies generally find that …
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This paper presents estimates of the impact of retraining and public service employment (PSE) on reemployment and earnings in the Republic of Hungary during the early phase of post-Socialist economic restructuring. Since assignment to programs resulted in groups with vastly dissimilar...
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Urban labor markets are characterized by the spatial proximity of households and businesses, which offers firms and … workers. This paper describes the current conditions of urban labor markets and outlines a national urban policy agenda that … addresses these concerns by taking into account cities' spatial dimension. The paper argues that a national urban labor policy …
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We estimate the returns to seniority (the wage-tenure profile) for university faculty, and the degree to which these returns respond to entry-level salaries (or opportunity wages) a relationship unexplored in work to date. Using data on faculty at a Big Ten university (ours), we estimate...
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