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Estimating workforce disposal in the Italian labour market

Contini, Bruno; Grand, Elisa - 2014

workforce common to all EU member countries: flows from regular employment to non-employment are very often dead-ends. A vast …-term unemployed or leave the workforce altogether, never to regain regular employment even after as long as twenty years. Many join … the ranks of the irregular economy, many drop out of the labour force. "Workforce disposal" refers to the process …

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Has COVID-19 Induced Labor Market Mismatch? Evidence from the US and the UK

Pizzinelli, Carlo; Shibata, Ippei - 2022

This paper studies whether labor market mismatch played an important role for labor market dynamics during the COVID-19 pandemic. We apply the framework of S¸ahin et al. (2014) to the US and the UK to measure misallocation between job seekers and vacancies across sectors until the third quarter...

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Workers Laid-Off During the Last Three Recessions : Who Were They, and How Did They Fare?

Chan, Winnie - 2011

Over the last three decades, Canada has experienced three recessions: one that started during the early 1980s; a second that began during the early 1990s; and the most recent one, which led to employment declines starting in October 2008. For each recession, this study: a) examines which workers...

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Employment subsidies and job insertion of higher education graduates in the labor market

Khayati, Anis; Hani, Umme; Alam, Shabbir; Sha, Nadia; … - In: Economies : open access journal 12 (2024) 11, pp. 1-13

This paper uses data from the 24 governorates in Tunisia over the period 2012-2020 to study the relationship between job insertion of higher education graduates into the formal labor market and a number of independent variables, namely active labor supply, labor demand, an active labor market...

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Did the Hartz Reforms Speed-Up Job Creation? A Macro-Evaluation Using Empirical Matching Functions

Fahr, René - 2006

market flows and reduce unemployment duration. Without attempting to evaluate the specific components of these Hartz reforms …

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Inequality in the Spanish Labor Market During the COVID-19 Crisis

Lariau, Ana; Liu, Lucy Qian - 2022

We analyze the differential impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the Spanish labor market across population groups, as well as its implications for income inequality. The main finding is that young, less educated, and low skilled workers, as well as women are the most affected by the COVID-19 shock...

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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 … depends crucially on the importance of mobility costs; (2) while higher homeownership may harm macroeconomic labour market …

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Empirical Labor Search: A Survey

Eckstein, Zvi; van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2003

This paper surveys the existing empirical research that uses search theory to empirically analyze labor supply questions in a structural framework, using data on individual labor market transitions and durations, wages, and individual characteristics. The starting points of the literature are...

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Labor market turnover and inequality in Latin America

Menezes-Filho, Naercio Aquino; Narita, Renata - 2023

This paper describes the patterns of worker turnover in selected Latin American countries and their implications for wage inequality. It documents a higher positive annual wage growth rate for job to job changers compared to stayers, due to turnover capturing the immediate gains from search...

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China's Labor Market in the 'New Normal'

Lam, W. Raphael - 2015

As China implements reforms under the “new normal,” maintaining stability in the labor market is a priority. The country's demography and labor dynamics are changing, after benefitting in past decades from ample cheap labor. So far, the labor market appears to be resilient, even as growth...

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