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The Unintended Consequences of Meritocratic Government Hiring
Geromichalos, Athanasios; Kospentaris, Ioannis - 2020
' incentives to create jobs, increases unemployment, and lowers GDP. To quantify the effects of this novel channel, we extend the … counterfactual exercises. We find that the adverse effects of our mechanism on the economy's TFP, GDP, and unemployment are sizable. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012655882
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Unemployment invariance
Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002
This paper provides a critique of the "unemployment invariance hypothesis", according to which the behavior of the … labor market ensures that the long-run unemployment rate is independent of the size of the capital stock, productivity and … the equilibrating mechanisms to ensure unemployment invariance; in particular, other markets may perform part of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281026
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What active labor market policy works in a recession?
Forslund, Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; Vikström, Johan - 2011
This paper discusses the case for expanding active labor market policy in recession. We find that there is reasonable case for relying more heavily on certain kinds of programs. The argument is tied to the varying size of the lock-in effect in boom and recession. If programs with relatively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273976
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Vacancy matching and labor market conditions
Stadin, Karolina - 2012
unemployment has a weak positive effect on the probability of filling a vacancy, while the number of vacancies in the local labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321379
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The Effect of Health on Income: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Commuting Accidents
Halla, Martin; Zweimüller, Martina - 2011
This paper interprets accidents occurring on the way to and from work as negative health shocks to identify the causal effect of health on labor market outcomes. We argue that in our sample of exactly matched treated and control workers, these health shocks are quasi-randomly assigned. A...
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Consistent estimation of the fixed effects ordered logit model
Baetschmann, Gregori; Staub, Kevin E.; Winkelmann, Rainer - 2011
effect of unemployment on life satisfaction. …
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Identification and estimation of thresholds in the fixed effects ordered logit model
Baetschmann, Gregori - 2011
application to the effect of unemployment on life satisfaction. …
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Reconsidering the analysis of longitudinal happiness data: With an application to the effect of unemployment
Baetschmann, Gregori; Staub, Kevin E.; Winkelmann, Rainer - 2011
to implement. The empirical relevance is illustrated in an application to the effect of unemployment on happiness …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316884
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Minimum wage increases and vacancies
Kudlyak, Marianna; Tasci, Murat; Tüzemen, Didem - 2022
Using a unique data set and a novel identification strategy, we estimate the effect of minimum wage increases on job vacancy postings. Utilizing occupation-specific countylevel vacancy data from the Conference Board's Help Wanted Online for 2005-2018, we find that state-level minimum wage...
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The unequal consequences of job loss across countries
Bertheau, Antoine; Acabbi, Edoardo; Barceló, Cristina; … - 2022
We document the consequences of losing a job across countries using a harmonized research design applied to seven matched employer-employee datasets. Workers in Denmark and Sweden experience the lowest earnings declines following job displacement, while workers in Italy, Spain, and Portugal...
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