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Do Employment Subsidies Work? Evidence from Regionally Targeted Subsidies in Turkey

Betcherman, Gordon; Daysal, N. Meltem; Pagés, Carmen - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

This paper studies the effects on registered employment, earnings, and number of registered establishments of two employment subsidy schemes in Turkey. We implement a difference-in-differences methodology to construct appropriate counterfactuals for the covered provinces...

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Unemployment and Finance:How do Financial and Labour Market FactorsInteract?

Gatti, Donatella; Rault, Christophe; Vaubourg, Anne-Gael - William Davidson Institute <Ann Arbor, Mich.> - 2010

interact to determine unemployment by estimating a dynamicpanel model using the system generalized method of moments (GMM). We … well as decreased banking concentration reduce unemployment ifthe level of labour market regulation, union density and …

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Labour Market Institutions and Unemployment:Does Finance Matter?

Rault, Christophe; Vaubourg, Anne-Gael - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

We explore whether finance influences the impact of labour market institutions onunemployment. Using a data set of 18 OECD countries over 1980-2004, we estimate a panelVectorAutoRegressive model. We check whether causalities from labour market variables tounemployment are affected by financial...

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Matching Bias in Labor Demand Estimation

Aguilar, Giovanna; Rendon, Sílvio - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Using a matched firm-worker dataset, we show both theoretically and empirically that positiveassortative matching between firms...

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Employment and Deadweight Loss Effects ofObserved Non-Wage Labor Costs

Aguilar, Giovanna; Rendon, Sílvio - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

To assess the employment effects of labor costs it is crucial to have reliable estimates of thelabor cost elasticity of labor demand. Using a matched firm-worker dataset, we estimate along run unconditional labor demand function, exploiting information on workers to correct forendogeneity in the...

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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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Labor Disputes and Labor Flows

Fraisse, Henri; Kramarz, Francis; Prost, Corinne - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

About one in four workers challenges her dismissal in front of a labor court in France. Using adata set of individual labor disputes brought to French courts over the years 1996 to 2003,we examine the impact of labor court activity on labor market flows. First, we present asimple theoretical...

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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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Self-Employment: A Way to End Unemployment?Empirical Evidence from German Pseudo-Panel Data

Glocker, Daniela; Steiner, Viktor - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper contributes to the policy-relevant question whether self-employment is a way outof (long-term) unemployment …. We estimate the relationship between the entry rate into selfemploymentand previous (long-term) unemployment on the basis …

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Does Self-Employment Reduce Unemployment?

Thurik, Roy; Stel, Adriaan J. van; Carree, Martin Anthony; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007

This paper investigates the dynamic interrelationship between self-employment and unemployment rates. On the one hand …, unemployment rates may stimulate start-up activity of self-employed. On the other hand, higher rates of self-employment may … indicate increased entrepreneurial activity reducing unemployment in subsequent periods. These two effects have resulted in …

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