Labor market institutions shape the return to workers’ skills. They define the incentives of firms and workers to invest in general and specific skills, affecting the returns to experience and tenure. This paper presents an empirical assessment of this hypothesis. We take advantage of rich...

This paper analyzes the long-term effects of graduating in a recession on earnings, job mobility, and employer characteristics for a large sample of Canadian college graduates using matched university-employer-employee data from 1982 to 1999. The results are used to assess the role of job...

Struggling to become an insider : does increasing flexibility at labor market entry affect early careers? : a theoretical framework / Erzsébet Bukodi ... [et al.] -- Youth unemployment in Western Europe : the effects of individual, market, and institutional factors / Katrin Golsch -- A new...