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Primum vivere ... industrial change, job destruction and the geographical distribution of unemployment

Pastore, Francesco - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 1 (2012), pp. 1-15

This paper aims to provide a frame of mind to understand the link between structural change and regional unemployment … mechanism to generate convergence in local unemployment rates has long neglected the question of how regional imbalances arise … high unemployment regions have a higher, not a lower rate of reallocation; this suggests, in turn, that they do not suffer …

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Intrafirm Mobility and Sex Differences in Pay

Oaxaca, Ronald L.; Ransom, Michael R. - 2003

In this paper we analyze eight years of employment data of a regional grocery store chain in the U.S. The data include job titles, wage rates, and earnings for all employees. We examine initial job assignments, mobility between departments, and mobility into supervisory and management positions...

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What do we work for? An anatomy of pre- and post-tax earnings growth

Frederiksen, Anders; Halliday, Timothy; Koch, Alexander K. - 2010

Promotions and cross-firm mobility provide substantial gains in earnings - a well established finding based on gross income data. Yet, what matters for incentives is how much an individual can consume or save after taxation. We show that net and gross income growth patterns may differ...

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Labour reallocation, relative prices and productivity

Cao, Shutao; Leung, Danny - 2010

This paper documents the rate at which labour flows between industries and between firms within industries using the most recent data available. It examines the determinants of these flows and their relationship with the productivity growth. It is found that the dispersion of industry employment...

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Job-finding and separation rates in the OECD

Hobijn, Bart; Sahin, Aysegül - 2007

cross-country calibration of search models of unemployment. We find that cross-country differences in job-finding rates are … unemployment and labor force participation rates to impute steady-state worker flows for twenty-three of the countries in our …

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The cyclicality of the separation and job finding rates in France

Hairault, Jean-Olivier; Le Barbanchon, Thomas; … - 2012

unemployment at business cycle frequencies by using administrative data on registered unemployment and labor force surveys. We … first investigate the fluctuations in steady state unemployment, and then in current unemployment in order to take into … account the unemployment deviations from equilibrium. Our results show the dominant role of the job finding rate in accounting …

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Should I stay or should I go ... North? First job location of US trained doctorates 1957 - 2005

Ferrall, Christopher; Mishagina, Natalia - 2009

Based on a survey of graduating PhD students in the U.S., we study the determinants of location of their first jobs. We consider how locating in Canada versus the U.S. for all graduates is influenced by both their background and time-varying factors that affect international mobility. We also...

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Primum vivere... industrial change, job destruction and the geographical distribution of unemployment

Pastore, Francesco - 2013

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Tenures that shook the world: Worker Turnover in Russia, Poland and Britain

Lehmann, Hartmut; Wadsworth, Jonathan - 2000

We study worker turnover to investigate to what extent the length of time a worker has been employed by a firm shapes the turnover process in a transition economy. Using survey data, we compare the pattern of turnover with a Western economy, Britain. We show that tenure-turnover rates are higher...

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The Impact of Training on Labour Mobility

Felstead, Alan; Green, Francis; Mayhew, Ken; Pack, Alan - 1999

The paper investigates the impact of different types of training on the mobility expectations of workers, using two new data sets, one of individuals the other of firms. The innovation is that the data incorporate measures of the degree of transferability of training, improved information on the...

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