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Who suffers the greatest loss? : costs of job displacement for migrants and natives
Illing, Hannah; Koch, Theresa - 2021
' slightly lower geographic mobility across federal states may explain part of their lower re-employment success; iii) our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012510005
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The short-run effects of the minimum wage on employment and labor market participation : evidence from an individual-level panel
Boffy-Ramirez, Ernest - 2019
advantage of individual-level longitudinal data to observe the impacts of minimum wage changes on unemployment and labor force … determines unemployment and labor force participation. Specifically, the empirical strategy controls any fixed individual … increase in unemployment immediately following a minimum wage increase. In addition, it does not appear that employers are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011978325
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COVID-19 and employment in South Korea: trends and comparison with the 2008 Financial Crisis
Nam, Minhyuk; Lee, Soohyung - 2021
decreased the employment rate by 0.82%p and increased the unemployment rate by 0.29%p. These estimated effects are 90 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012431574
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Selective firing and lemons
Weynandt, Michèle - 2014
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346047
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The Impact of Forced Displacement on Host Communities. A Review of the Empirical Literature in Economics
Verme, Paolo; Schuettler, Kirsten - 2020
The paper reviews the literature that estimated the impact of forced displacement on host communities. A comparative analysis of the empirical models used in 59 studies and a meta-analysis of 972 results collected from these studies are the main contributions of the paper. Coverage extends to 19...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012236860
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The impact of forced displacement on host communities : a review of the empirical literature in economics
Verme, Paolo; Schuettler, Kirsten - 2020
The paper reviews the literature that estimated the impact of forced displacement on host communities. A comparative analysis of the empirical models used in 59 studies and a meta-analysis of 972 results collected from these studies are the main contributions of the paper. Coverage extends to 19...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012239323
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The iceberg decomposition: a parsimonious way to map the health of labour markets
Baert, Stijn - 2020
historically focussed on reducing unemployment (the tip of the iceberg), the group of inactive people (below the waterline) is much … larger. Therefore, we point to the clear limitations of the unemployment rate as the (single) key macro-economic indicator of … the health of the labour market. A parsimonious dashboard approach utilising the unemployment-to-population ratio and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012254253
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The iceberg decomposition : a parsimonious way tomap the health of labour markets
Baert, Stijn - 2020
historically focussed on reducing unemployment (the tip of the iceberg), the group of inactive people (below the waterline) is much … larger. Therefore, we point to the clear limitations of the unemployment rate as the (single) key macro-economic indicator of … the health of the labour market. A parsimonious dashboard approach utilising the unemployment-to-population ratio and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012249694
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Jobs for Iraq: an employment and decent work strategy
Amjad (edited by), Rashid; Havers (edited by), Julian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
argues that reducing the high degree of unemployment could contribute to peace and stability in the lives of people … which continues to be a source of grievance and social unrest. Unemployment, especially amongst the young and dislocated … security conditions allow – first to tackle the immediate problem of a very high level of unemployment and then to ensure that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260310
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The minimum wage from a two-sided perspective
Brown, Alessio J.G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - In: Economics Letters 124 (2014) 3, pp. 389-391
This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective, in which firms’ job offer and workers’ job acceptance decisions are disentangled. Minimum wages reduce job offer incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show...
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