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The Effect of the Hartz Labor Market Reforms on Post-Unemployment Wages, Sorting, and Matching
Woodcock, Simon D. - 2020
We use linked longitudinal data on employers and employees to estimate how the 2003-2005 Hartz reforms affected the wages of displaced German workers after they returned to work. We also present a simple new method to decompose the wage effects into components attributable to selection on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012832592
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The effect of the Hartz labor market reforms on post-unemployment wages, sorting, and matching
Woodcock, Simon D. - 2020
We use linked longitudinal data on employers and employees to estimate how the 2003-2005 Hartz reforms affected the wages of displaced German workers after they returned to work. We also present a simple new method to decompose the wage effects into components attributable to selection on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228177
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Did the crisis permanently scar the Portuguese labour market? : evidence from a Markov-switching Beveridge curve analysis
Vansteenkiste, Isabel - 2017
In this paper we analyse to what extent the outward shift in the Portuguese Beveridge curve since 2007 has been due to structural or cyclical factors and how likely the outward shift will persist. We do this by empirically estimating the Beveridge curve in a Markov-switching panel setting with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011636179
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Do business cycle conditions at the time of labour market entry affect future unemployment?
Raaum, Oddbjørn; Røed, Knut - 2002
Labour market conditions at the time and place of potential entry into the labour market are shown to have a substantial and persistent impact on adult labour market performance. Birth cohorts that face particularly depressed labour markets when they graduate from primary- and/or secondary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284268
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Born under a bad sign : the impact of finishing school when labour markets are weak
Regan, Mark; Roantree, Barra - 2021
these scarring effects are larger and more persistent for young adults from the lowest-income backgrounds. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012623701
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Scarring effects of the first labour market experience : a sibling based analysis
Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2004
The paper studies the relationship between teenagers first labour market experience and subsequent labour market performance using data on all Swedish youths graduating from vocational high school programmes in 1991-94. Sibling fixed-effects combined with detailed data on high school programmes,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011573524
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Entering the labour market in a weak economy : scarring and insurance
Cribb, Jonathan; Hood, Andrew; Joyce, Robert - 2017
using consistent long-running household survey data from the UK. In line with previous research, we find persistent scarring … in labour market scarring and insurance is key to understanding why parental incomes insure so much of the shock: lower …-educated young adults experience the worst labour market scarring effects, but they are also highly likely to live with their parents …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011817052
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Labor market effects of unemployment insurance design
Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; van Ours, Jan C. - 2012
With the emergence of the Great Recession unemployment insurance (UI) is once again at the heart of the policy debate. In this paper, we review the recent theoretical and empirical evidence on the labor market effects of UI design. We also discuss policy issues related to UI design, including...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289841
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What Works Best for Getting the Unemployed Back toWork: Employment Services or Small-BusinessAssistance Programmes? Evidence from Romania
Rodriguez-Planas, Nuria - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Recent empirical evidence has found that employment services and small-businessassistance programmes are often successful at getting the unemployed back to work. Oneimportant concern of policy makers is to decide which of these two programmes is moreeffective and for whom...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861856
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Labour market signalling and unemployment duration : an empirical analysis using employer-employee data
Frederiksen, Anders; Ibsen, Rikke; Rosholm, Michael; … - 2006
This paper tests the signalling hypothesis using detailed flow-based employer-employee data from Denmark. The primary focus is to explore how the conditions in the pre-displacement firm affect the duration of unemployment. The empirical analysis is conducted within a competing risk framework,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003323159