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receive higher wages than employed singles. The model is applied to a welfare analysis of alternative unemployment insurance …
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receive higher wages than employed singles. The model is applied to a welfare analysis of alternative unemployment insurance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321420
receive higher wages than employed singles. The model is applied to a welfare analysis of alternative unemployment insurance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008596606
receive higher wages than employed singles. The model is applied to a welfare analysis of alternative unemployment insurance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543272
The Swedish adult education program known as the Knowledge Lift (1997-2002) was unprecedented in its size and scope, aiming to raise the skill level of large numbers of lowskill workers. This paper evaluates the potential effects of this program on aggregate labor market outcomes. This is done...
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we examine the policy effects of the minimum wage, unemployment benefits and search frictions. …
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Individual labour market transitions from unemployment into temporary work are often succeeded by a transition from … unemployment to temporary jobs and unobserved determinants of the transition rates. The data contain multiple spells in labour … unemployment and they substantially increase the fraction of unemployed workers who have regular work within a few years after …
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reducing unemployment leads to industrialised countries offering financial support to unemployed job seekers when searching for … and/or accepting jobs in distant regions. In this paper, we investigate the impact of the existence of these mobility … radius causes a higher geographical mobility and hence higher employment probabilities and wages. …
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Internal migration can substantially improve labor market efficiency. Consequently, policy is often targeted towards reducing the barriers workers face in moving to new labor markets. In this paper we explicitly model internal migration as the result of a job search process and demonstrate that...
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Internal migration can substantially improve labor market efficiency. Consequently, policy is often targeted towards reducing the barriers workers face in moving to new labor markets. In this paper we explicitly model internal migration as the result of a job search process and demonstrate that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011428153