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Labour market integration programmes for refugees in Austria : do they really work and for whom?
Mara, Isilda - 2023
Syria in Austria, and it uses matching models to evaluate the effects on employment of participation in those two programmes …. More specifically, it applies multivariate matching methods that ensure better balancing properties between the control and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014427545
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Gender and education gaps in employment : new evidence for the EU
Gökten, Meryem; Heimberger, Philipp; Arsenev, Aleksandr; … - 2024
This paper analyses (age-adjusted) employment rates by gender and education. We find that malefemale gender gaps and high-low education gaps in employment vary markedly across European Union (EU) countries and regions, with larger gaps existing in Eastern and Southern Europe than in Nordic and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014558979
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The effect of job referrals on labor market outcomes in Brazil
O'Leary, Christopher J.; Cravo, Túlio; Sierra, Ana C.; … - 2019
This paper is the first to use program administrative data from Brazil's National Employment System (SINE) to assess the impact of SINE job interview referrals on labor market outcomes. Data for a five-year period (2012-2016) are used to evaluate the impact of SINE on employment probability,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011992106
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Reservation wages and the wage flexibility puzzle
Koenig, Felix; Manning, Alan; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2016
Wages are only mildly cyclical, implying that shocks to labour demand have a larger short-run impact on unemployment rather than wages, at odds with the quantitative predictions of the canonical search model - even if wages are only occasionally renegotiated. We argue that one source of the wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011446155
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Matching, wage rigidities and efficient severance pay
Fella, Giulio - 2012
This paper studies the effect of mandated severance pay in a matching model featuring wage rigidity for ongoing, but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009668414
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Applications and interviews : a structural analysis of two-sided simultaneous search
Wolthoff, Ronald - 2011
Matching ; Labor Market Frictions ; Structural Estimation ; Efficiency ; Policy Analysis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009379737
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Labor market search, informality and schooling investments
Bobba, Matteo; Flabbi, Luca; Levy, Santiago - 2018
This paper develops a search and matching model where firms and workers are allowed to form matches (jobs) that can be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011783896
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Female labor force participation, labor market dynamic, and growth
Bustelo, Monserrat; Flabbi, Luca; Piras, Claudia; … - 2019
The labor force participation of women is lower than the labor force participation of men. This empirical regularity is particularly acute in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). In terms of labor market productivity and growth potential, these lower participation rates constitute a reserve of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011959234
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A Beveridge curve decomposition for Austria : what drives the unemployment rate?
Christl, Michael - 2019
stated that matching efficiency decreased. Using a new decomposition method, combined with detailed labour market flow data …, we are the first to disentangle supply-side, demand-side and matching factors, which could potentially cause a shift in … the shift in the Beveridge curve after 2014 was mainly caused by a decrease in matching efficiency, indicating a rising …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011962116
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Matching frictions and distorted beliefs : evidence from a job fair experiment
Abebe, Girum; Caria, Stefano A.; Fafchamps, Marcel; … - 2023
about the market. This suggests that, beyond slowing down matching, search frictions have a second understudied cost: they …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014314311