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examines the impact of education on both risk components. France faces a higher unemployment rate than West-Germany, due to a …. The risk of entering unemployment is particularly high for French employees with poor education, but higher education …This paper analyses the link between educational attainment and unemployment risk in a French-German comparison, based …
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Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel for the years 2000 to 2006 we analyze the determinants and labor market … education vanishes for males once we control for additional characteristics such as occupations, professional Internet use and …
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Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel for the years 2000 to 2006 we analyze the determinants and labor market … education vanishes for males once we control for additional characteristics such as occupations, professional Internet use and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097929
examines the impact of education on both risk components. France faces a higher unemployment rate than West-Germany, due to a …. The risk of entering unemployment is particularly high for French employees with poor education, but higher education …This paper analyses the link between educational attainment and unemployment risk in a French-German comparison, based …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097945
Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment … large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment …
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In this paper, we study the effect of skill-biased technological change on unemployment when benefits are linked to the …, unemployment rises. More generally, we show that skill-biased technological change leads to increasing unemployment of the … inequality and unemployment under different social benefits regimes: Analyzing the social legislation in 14 countries, we find …
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education. We therefore include aggregate unemployment and an interaction term between unemployment and the individual education … regional unemployment can in addition almost fully explain the observed large differences in regional returns to education. We …On the basis of a theoretical model, we argue that higher aggregate unemployment affects individual returns to …
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This paper demonstrates that insiders can erect barriers to entry and skim rents by sinking costs in human capital when labour markets are otherwise perfectly contestable. The sunk costs nature of human capital investments may result from the need to satisfy ever increasing specialised skill...
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relative wage and unemployment differentials for various labour market defining characteristics. A simultaneous increase in the … relative wage and the unemployment likelihood is defined as a relative wage rigidity dynamic for a labour market characteristic …
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the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a …
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