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Explaining the spread of temporary jobs and its impact on labor turnover
Cahuc, Pierre; Charlot, Olivier; Malherbet, Franck - 2012
This paper provides a simple model which explains the choice between permanent and temporary jobs. This model, which incorporates important features of actual employment protection legislations neglected by the economic literature so far, reproduces the main stylized facts about entries into...
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Labor Turnover and Labor Legislation in Brazil
Gonzaga, Gustavo - 2003
One of the main characteristics of the Brazilian labor market is its impressively high job and worker turnover rates. Although labor legislation in Brazil is very restrictive, dismissal costs are not high when compared with other Latin American countries. Moreover, many authors argue that the...
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The insider-outsider theory: a survey
Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002
This article is an idiosyncratic survey of the insider-outsider theory, describing the vision underlying the theory … been dead-ends and red herrings in past research. The first section deals with the theory, concerning how labor turnover … shocks. The second section deals with the insider-outsider theory in relation to two important economic institutions: unions …
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Substitution and crowding-out effects of active labour market policy
Jahn, Elke J.; Wagner, Thomas - 2000
The search model contains two matching technologies, the public employment service (PES) with its type-specific registers for workers and vacancies, and the search market where firms advertise vacancies and unemployed who have not been placed by the PES search for jobs. The placement activity of...
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A hiring subsidy for long-term unemployed in a search model with PES and random search
Jahn, Elke J.; Wagner, Thomas - 2002
Our search model combines two search methods, the public employment service (PES) and random search. The separation rate is endogenous, the job matching process consists of three rounds. In the first and the second respectively the short-term (STU) and the long-term unemployed (LTU) randomly...
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Employee Referrals and Efficiency Wages
Kugler, Adriana D. - 2002
Many workers believe that personal contacts are crucial for obtaining jobs in high-wage sectors. On the other hand, firms in high-wage sectors report using employee referrals because they help provide screening and monitoring of new employees. This paper develops a matching model that can...
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Do firms demand temporary workers when they face workload fluctuation? Cross-country firm-level evidence on the conditioning effect of employment protection
Dräger, Vanessa; Marx, Paul - 2012
Although the negative economic effects of temporary employment are widely discussed, cross-country research on firms' demand for temporary employment is rare. National studies indicate that workload fluctuations are one major motive for firms to employ temporary workers. By studying a novel data...
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Reduction of employment protection in Europe : a comparative fuzzy-set analysis
Ochel, Wolfgang; Rohwer, Anja - 2009
Since the middle of the 1980s many European countries have reduced the strictness of their employment protection mainly by relaxing it for temporary jobs. These countries are Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and Sweden. The article explores the...
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Unemployment and employment protection in a unionized economy with search frictions
Stähler, Nikolai - 2007
In theoretical literature, the effects of employment protection on unemployment are ambiguous. Higher employment protection decreases job creation as well as job destruction. However, in most models, wages are bargained individually between workers and firms. Using a conventional matching model...
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Employment protection and temporary work agencies
Baumann, Florian; Mechtel, Mario; Stähler, Nikolai - 2008
Employers who use temporary agency staff in contrast to regular staff are not affected by employment protection regulations when terminating a job. Therefore, services provided by temporary work agencies may be seen as a substitute for regular employment. In this paper, we analyze the effects of...
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