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An unfulfilled promise? : higher education quality and professional underemployment in Peru
Yamada, Gustavo; Lavado, Pablo; Martínez, Joan J. - 2015
Despite the high growth of the Peruvian economy during the last decade, college graduates are facing increasing difficulties to find occupations that match their higher educational background, skills and educational investments. This scenario is embodied in the "professional underemployment"...
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Wage rigidity and labor market dynamics with sorting
Schulz, Bastian - 2015
This paper adds two-sided ex-ante heterogeneity and a production technology inducing sorting to the canonical Diamond-Mortensen-Pissarides (DMP) search and matching model. Ex-ante heterogeneity and sorting have important implications for the dynamic properties of the model. The modifications...
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Information frictions and labor market outcomes
Cardoso, Ana Rute; Loviglio, Annalisa; Piemontese, Lavinia - 2015
unemployment rate and the actual unemployment rate in the country, which is a meaningful indicator of their misperception of labor … model includes: controls for the worker's ability; country-specific fixed effects; the unemployment rate in the region of … residence, which might be the benchmark respondents have in mind when reporting their perception of the national unemployment …
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Estimating workforce disposal in the Italian labour market
Contini, Bruno; Grand, Elisa - 2014
Italy's labour market suffers from a serious pathology, in addition to the increasing precariousness of the young workforce common to all EU member countries: flows from regular employment to non-employment are very often dead-ends. A vast number of young individuals who lose their job only a...
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Labor market institutions and long-term effects of youth unemployment
Kawaguchi, Daiji; Murao, Tetsushi - 2014
worker who experiences a one-percentage-point higher unemployment rate while the worker is 16-24 years old has a 0 ….14 percentage-point higher unemployment rate at ages 25-29 and 0.03 percentage points higher at ages 30-34. The persistence of this …
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Business cycle asymmetries and the labor market
Kohlbrecher, Britta; Merkl, Christian - 2016 - First version: April 2015. This version: February 2016
density function with higher density and thereby generate large, asymmetric job-finding rate and unemployment reactions. Our …
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Gender gaps of the unemployed : what drives diverging labor market outcomes?
Dauth, Christine - 2016
unemployment duration and the quality of reemployment. …
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Business cycle asymmetries and the labor market
Kohlbrecher, Britta; Merkl, Christian - 2016
density function with higher density and thereby generate large, asymmetric job-finding rate and unemployment reactions. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011455340
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Homeownership and labour market outcomes : micro versus macro performances
Beugnot, Julie; Lacroix, Guy; Charlot, Olivier - 2014
unemployment rates. To this end, we develop a matching model à la Pissarides (2000) in which homeowners are assumed to be less …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010423759
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Labor market careers before and after Incarceration
Czafit, Bence; Köllő, János - 2014
We study the entry to formal employment and earnings of a large sample of convicts released from Hungarian prisons in 2002-2008. We identify the effect of the prison service on postrelease careers by exploiting differences in the timing of incarceration, on the one hand, and estimating fixed...
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