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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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How Do Different Entitlements to UnemploymentBenefits Affect the Transitions from Unemploymentinto Employment?

Addison, John T.; Portugal, Pedro - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

In Portugal duration of benefits is exclusively age determined while replacement rates are toall intents and purposes uniform. We exploit differences in potential maximum duration ofbenefits for nearly matched pairs of individuals who differ in age by one year and in potentialmaximum duration of...

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Social and Occupational Security andLabour Market Flexibility in Sweden:The Case of Unemployment Compensation

Lindquist, Gabriella Sjögren; Wadensjö, Eskil - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

The Swedish labour market and social policy is aimed at facilitating flexibility in the labourmarket. The active labour market policy and the design of the social security pension systemare two frequently mentioned examples of that policy...

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Modelling the Time onUnemployment Insurance Benefits

Bijwaard, Govert E. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

A duration model based on the time on Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefits instead of amodel based on the time till re …

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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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Comparing the Effectiveness of Employment Subsidies

Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper analyses theoretically and empirically how employment subsidies should betargeted. We contrast measures involving targeting workers with low incomes/abilities andtargeting the unemployed under the criteria of "approximate welfare efficiency" (AWE)...

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Equilibrium Unemployment with OutsourcingUnder Labour Market Imperfections

Koskela, Erkki; Stenbacka, Rune - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

We study both the various consequences and the incentives of outsourcing. We argue thatthe wage elasticity of labour demand is increasing as a function of the share of outsourcing,which is importantly a result consistent with existing empirical research...

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