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employment, low youth and female unemployment, flexibility, and a low share of the "working poor", all of which can beneficially … self-employment, and an excess of labor cost growth over productivity growth, all of which can threaten further economic …
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This paper uses the Austrian Social Security Register (ASSD) to explore what information firms infer from the three common types of displacement: individual layoffs, individuals displaced due to a closure and individuals displaced due to a mass layoff. I bring together two strands of the...
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paper then presents new suggestive evidence to quantify the employment impacts of various counter-cyclical policies … introduced during this time. We conduct a counter-factual and find that employment would have been between 4.2 percent and 4 … Credits increased the likelihood of employment by about 4.7 percent for disconnected youth but had no effect on disabled and …
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This paper evaluates the strength of information flow from employed past coworkers on the re-employment duration of …-entry tenure. We find that a 10 percentage point increase in the network employment rate leads to a 3.2 percent increase in the …
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-level bargaining over hours, wages and employment levels may be more effective than STW in encouraging adjustment along the intensive … different institutional configurations as the demand for STW is very much affected by other institutions such as employment …
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This paper analyzes the effect of firing costs on aggregate productivity growth. For thispurpose, a model of endogenous growth through selection and imitation is developed. It isconsistent with recent evidence on firm dynamics and on the importance of reallocation forproductivity growth...
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-level bargaining over hours, wages and employment levels may be more effective than STW in encouraging adjustment along the intensive … different institutional configurations as the demand for STW is very much affected by other institutions such as employment …
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consequently lead to higher labor market turnover, higher welfare and increased wage inequality, while the effect on employment is … ambiguous. Ceteris paribus, the effects are qualitatively similar to decreasing employment protection in form of costly firing … integration. -- employment protection ; firing margin ; trade in intermediate goods ; labor market turnover ; revenue risk …
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This paper explores how the introduction of an experience rated system of unemployment insurance affects employment and … literature, it has been argued that experience rated systems of unemployment insurance may reduce long term employment as firms …, the introduction of experience rating may increase long term employment. Moreover, it unambiguously increases welfare. …
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