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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...

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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,...

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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...

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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 …

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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 …

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Full employment : a survey of theory, empirics and policies

Lichtenberger, Andreas; Heimberger, Philipp; Arsenev, … - 2024

The concept of full employment is associated with diverse economic, political and social aspects. We provide a survey of theory, empirics and policy issues related to full employment. We make a novel contribution by tying together multi-dimensional aspects of full employment regarding...

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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 …

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Born under a bad sign : the impact of finishing school when labour markets are weak

Regan, Mark; Roantree, Barra - 2021

This paper provides evidence that finishing school when labour markets are weak leads to poor subsequent labour market prospects, particularly those leaving school at younger ages. Using administrative register data from Denmark, we find that these scarring effects are larger and more persistent...

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Effects of credit supply on unemployment and inequality

Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Dinopoulos, Elias; Unel, Bulent - 2016

The Great Recession, which was preceded by the financial crisis, resulted in higher unemployment and inequality. We propose a simple model where firms producing varieties face labor-market frictions and credit constraints. In the model, tighter credit leads to lower output, lower number of...

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Happiness functions with preference interdependence and heterogeneity : the case of altruism within the family

Bruhin, Adrian (contributor); Winkelmann, Rainer (contributor) - 2007

adult children's subjective well-being in a data set extracted from the German Socio-Economic Panel. In order to segregate …. We control for various sources of potential bias by taking advantage of the data's panel structure. To validate our …

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