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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003459479
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Subjective well-being and the family : results from an ordered probit model with multiple random effects
Winkelmann, Rainer (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
allows to identify the intrafamily correlation in well-being. The parameters of the model can be estimated with panel data … using Maximum Marginal Likelihood. The approach is illustrated in an application using panel data for the period 1984 …-1997 from the German Socio-Economic Panel in which both inter-generational and intra-marriage correlations in well-being are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001729413
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Measuring job-finding rates and matching efficiency with heterogeneous jobseekers
Hall, Robert Ernest; Schulhofer-Wohl, Sam - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011287152
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Are active labour market policies effective in activating and integrating low-skilled individuals? : an international comparison
Escudero, Verónica - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011302494
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La réforme du marché du travail en Allemagne : les enseignements d'une maquette
Capet, Stéphane (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002420873
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The US inflation-unemployment tradeoff : methodological issues and further evidence
Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector - 2009
This paper adresses the various methodological issues surrounding vector autoregressions, simultaneous equations, and chain reactions, and provides new evidence on the long-run inflation-unemployment tradeoff in the US. It is argued that money growth is a superior indicator of the monetary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003877115
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Inequality and employment sensitivities to the falling labour share
Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector - 2011
This paper aims at identifying the labour share (wage-productivity gap) as a major factor in the evolution of inequality and employment. To this end, we use annual data for the US, UK and Sweden over the past forty years and estimate country-specific systems of labour demand and Gini coefficient...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009157624