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Monthly wage series with quarterly periodicity between December 1994 and December 2004 for thirteen regions in Chile are presented in this paper. These series are based on the information recollected by the Superintendencia de Fondos de Pensiones (Pensions Fund Superintendence), but are...
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In den zentralasiatischen Ländern Kirgistan und Tadschikistan müssen viele Erwachsene ihre Familien zeitweilig verlassen, um sich in anderen Regionen oder Ländern einen Arbeitsplatz zu suchen. Die Geldüberweisungen an die Familien stellen in beiden Ländern einen erheblichen wirtschaftlichen...
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New college graduates must choose whether to stay in the geographic area where they completed their degree or move to a new location to begin their careers. This paper classifies 41 U.S. metropolitan areas as “college towns” and investigates differences in employment outcomes between college...
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A standard object of empirical analysis in labor economics is a modified Mincer wage function in which an individual’s log wage is a function of education, experience, and race. We analyze this approach in a context where individuals live and work in different locations (thus facing different...
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This paper aims to provide a frame of mind to understand the link between structural change and regional unemployment … mechanism to generate convergence in local unemployment rates has long neglected the question of how regional imbalances arise … high unemployment regions have a higher, not a lower rate of reallocation; this suggests, in turn, that they do not suffer …
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of the old-age pension system on transitions from employment to disability, unemployment and inactivity. We exploit the …
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In this paper we analyze empirically different specifications of a sample selection model. We are interested in how the estimates vary across alternative assumptions concerning the joint conditional distribution of the sample selection equation errors, such us the specification of error...
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The crises of the past few years have led to a significant increase in youth unemployment in Europe. This, in turn, has … highlighted the long-standing phenomenon of well above average youth unemployment. In some countries, the youth unemployment rate … reached unprecedented levels, although the rise of unemployment among young people was no more significant than among adults …
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for the design of selected labor market policies including unemployment compensation, employment services and job search … assistance, and job training. -- behavioral economics ; unemployment insurance ; job training ; job search …
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unemployment spells, hours worked and monthly earnings. We also analyze whether displaced workers are more likely to be in informal … costs as additional outcomes. Displaced migrant workers do not encounter losses in terms of longer unemployment spells or …
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