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We survey the recent literature on the effects of active labor market policies on individual labor market outcomes like employment and income, for adult female individuals without work in European countries. We consider skilltraining programs, monitoring and sanctions, job search assistance, and...
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with comparable attributes. In the conventional neoclassical point of view, wages are determined by the marginal product of … the workers. Accordingly, increases in union minimum wages result in a decline of residual wage dispersion and higher …
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We present a new and simple empirical methodology to identify relative wage rigidity dynamics. The methodology is applied to data from the Polish Labour Force Survey for the period 1994 to 1998. We estimate ceteris paribus changes in relative wage and unemployment differentials for various...
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stability of educational wage premia was justified by market forces. However, relative wages did not respond to negative net …
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Are there any differences in how men and women fare from unemployment in terms of the wages they receive on a new job … experience unemployment will suffer a reduction of subsequent wages while no such effect could be found for women. These findings …
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We exploit a policy discontinuity at U.S. state borders to identify the effects of unemployment insurance policies on unemployment. Our estimates imply that most of the persistent increase in unemployment during the Great Recession can be accounted for by the unprecedented extensions of...
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Italy. In particular, the existence of high wage floor -- either set through statutory minimum wages or by collective …
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boom and bust. The gradient with wages, however, is much more marked during the bust and remains significantly so even …
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the reduced earnings, work hours, and wages of these displaced workers can be attributed to factors specific to pre- and … deficit of displaced workers can be attributed roughly 40 percent to reduced hourly wages and 60 percent to reduce work hours … losses and nearly 25 percent of lower long-term hourly wages. For workers displaced from employers paying top …
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The Swedish adult education program known as the Knowledge Lift is unprecedented in its size and scope, aiming to raise the skill level of all low-skilled workers towards the medium level. This paper evaluates the effects of program participation on individual labor market outcomes, notably...
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