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Training, job security and incentive wages
Katsimē, Margarita - 2003
This paper considers the optimal level of firm-specific training by taking into account the positive effect of training on the expected duration of workers current employment. In the framework of an efficiency wage model, a short expected job tenure represents a disamenity that reduces the...
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Employed and unemployed job seekers : are they substitutes?
Longhi, Simonetta; Taylor, Mark P. - 2011
The job search literature suggests that on-the-job search reduces the probability of unemployed people finding a job. However, there is no evidence that employed and unemployed job seekers are similar or apply for the same jobs. We combine the Labour Force Survey and the British Household Panel...
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Workers' views of the impact of trade on jobs
Brown, Clair; Lane, Julia; Sturgeon, Timothy - 2010
Although public policy is influenced by the perception that workers worry about the impact of trade on their jobs, there is little empirical evidence on what shapes such views. This paper uses new data to examine how workers' perceptions of the impact of trade are related to their career paths,...
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Worker flows and labour market adjustment during the Great Recession : evidence from a large shock
Lehmann, Hartmut; Razzolini, Tiziano; Zaiceva, Anzelika - 2015
This paper analyzes how the labor market adjusts to the Great Recession. To this aim, we use the data for Latvia, a country that has experienced one of the most severe recessions in Europe and a subsequent remarkable recovery. Employing longitudinal EU SILC data and a panel data set constructed...
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Job creation, job preservation or job loss? : The future of Europe's labour market
2012
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Der Preis des Wandels : wirtschaftliche Umstrukturierung, Arbeitskräftefreisetzung und Arbeitslosigkeit in Westdeutschland
Knuth, Matthias - 1999
die wachsende Arbeitslosigkeit vermittelt. Dadurch entsteht der Eindruck, daß diese beiden Entwicklungen auf eine direkte … Irrtum. In diesem Aufsatz nutzen wir die amtlichen Statistiken über Beschäftigung und Arbeitslosigkeit und werten Erhebungen … unterdurchschnittliche Zahl von Zugängen in die Arbeitslosigkeit. Andererseits fanden wir heraus, dass in Befragungen unter Arbeitslosen der …
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The toll of change : economic restructuring, worker displacement, and unemployment in West Germany
Knuth, Matthias - 1999
die wachsende Arbeitslosigkeit verbreitet. Dadurch entsteht der Eindruck, daß diese beiden Entwicklungen auf eine direkte … Irrtum. In diesem Aufsatz nutzen wir die amtlichen Statistiken über Beschäftigung und Arbeitslosigkeit und werten Erhebungen … unterdurchschnittliche Zahl von Zugängen in die Arbeitslosigkeit. Andererseits fanden wir heraus, daß in Befragungen unter Arbeitslosen der …
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Effects of labor reallocation on productivity and inequality : insights from studies on transition
Tyrowicz, Joanna; Van der Velde, Lucas; Švejnar, Jan - 2016
From a theoretical perspective the link between the speed and scope of rapid labor reallocation and productivity growth or income inequality is ambiguous. Do reallocations with more flows tend to produce higher productivity growth? Does such a link appear at the expense of higher income...
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Jobless recoveries and skill-biased sectoral shift
Cui, Zhen - In: Seoul journal of economics 29 (2016) 3, pp. 305-330
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Labor mobility, economic shocks and jobless growth evidence from panel data in Morocco
Verme, Paolo; Barry, Abdoul Gadiry; Guennouni, Jamal; … - In: Middle East development journal : a publication of the … 8 (2016) 1, pp. 1-31
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