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The Effect of Location on Finding a Jobin the Greater Paris Area

Gobillon, Laurent; Magnac, Thierry; Selod, Harris - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

There are large spatial disparities in unemployment durations across the 1,300 municipalitiesin the Ile … municipality on an exhaustive datasetof all unemployment spells starting in the first semester of 1996... …

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City Air or City Markets:Productivity Gains in Urban Areas

Krupka, Douglas J. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Persistent productivity gains to rural-urban migrants have been documented by a number ofresearchers. One interpretation of this result is that individuals learn higher value skills incities than they would have learned in less dense areas. Another explanation for this result,however, is that...

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Education and Regional Job Creation by the Self-Employed: The English North-South Divide

Burke, Andrew E.; FitzRoy, Felix R.; Nolan, Michael A. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2006

Using decomposition analysis, the paper investigates the reasons why Northern England has less but higher perfoming self-employed business than the South. It finds the causes are mainly structural differences rather than due to regional variation in people's characteristics..

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The Employment and Earnings of Migrants inGreat Britain

Andrews, Martyn; Clark, Ken; Whittaker, William - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Using nationally representative, longitudinal data from the first 14 waves of the BritishHousehold Panel Survey we examine the labour market returns to inter-regional migration inGreat Britain...

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A New Regional Geography of Europe?The Labour Market Impact of the EU Enlargements

Caroleo, Floro Ernesto; Pastore, Francesco - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper provides a critical overview and a detailed research agenda for scholarsinterested in regional studies with a special focus on old and new European Union memberstates. The focus is on the microeconomic foundations of structural change and its spatiallyasymmetric impact on labour...

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A Study in Structural Change:Relative Earnings in Wales since the 1970s

Cameron, Gavin; Muellbauer, John; Snicker, Jonathan - University <Oxford> / Department of Economics - 2001

The Welsh economy has undergone rapid structural change in recent years.This paper uses data from the New Earnings Survey to examine how earnings in Waleschanged relative to those of Great Britain between 1975 and 1994. There are five mainfindings. First, earnings of workers in Wales have...

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Employment Stability of Entrants in Newly Founded Firms : A Matching Approach Using Linked Employer-Employee Data from Germany

Schnabel, Claus; Kohaut, Susanne; Brixy, Udo - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

Using a linked employer-employee dataset and taking the perspective of individuals rather than firms, this paper analyzes some effects of joining start-ups. We show that entrants in new firms differ from those joining incumbent firms, and we use a matching approach to compare a group of...

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The Effect of Job Displacement on the Transitionsto Employment and Early Retirement for OlderWorkers in Four European Countries

Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Despite the increased frequency of job loss for older workers in Europe, little is known on itseffect on the work-retirement decision. Employing individual data from the EuropeanCommunity Household Panel for Germany, Italy, Spain, and the U.K., a multivariatecompeting-risks hazard model is...

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Unemployment Duration and Disability:Evidence from Portugal

Sciulli, Dario; Menezes, António Gomes de; Vieira, … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

In this paper we use Portuguese data on individual (multiple) unemployment spells and applysemi-parametric duration … persons with muscular, skeletal, geriatricand sensorial problems experience the longest unemployment spells. Organic (blind …

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Skill Mismatch in Equilibrium Unemployment

Bachmann, Ronald - Sonderforschungsbereich Ökonomisches Risiko <Berlin> - 2005

We analyse the effect of skill mismatch in a search model of equilibrium unemployment with risk-neutral agents … explain the rise in unemployment in Europe relative to the US. This result is due to the endogeneity of job destruction and … stands at odds with previous findings in the literature. We can, however, confirm the fact that unemployment benefits …

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