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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...
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Uncertainty and firms' labour decisions : evidence from European countries
Martinez-Matute, Marta; Urtasun, Alberto - 2020
Uncertainty affects employers' decisions on labour workforce, as it does on capital. We exploit differences on how firms adjust their labour work-force when uncertainty increases. Using data from the Wage Dynamic Network Survey for 25 European countries, we first construct, opposite to usual...
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Do initial conditions persist between firms? : an analysis of firm-entry cohort effects and job losers using matched employer-employee data
Wachter, Till von; Bender, Stefan - 2007
Einflussreiche Studien gehen davon aus, dass sich die Bedingungen beim Berufseinstieg langfristig auf den Berufsverlauf von Arbeitskräften im Betrieb auswirken. Obwohl es unter Wirtschaftswissenschaftlern seit langem umstritten ist, ob die anhaltenden Lohnunterschiede zwischen Betrieben und...
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Labour market dynamics in Germany : hirings, separations, and job-to-job transitions over the business cycle
Bachmann, Ronald (contributor) - 2005
In this paper, we provide a comprehensive overview of labour market dynamics in Western Ger- many by looking at gross worker flows. To do so, we use a subsample of the registry data collected by the German social security system, the IAB employment sample, for the time period 1975-2001. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003323028
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Mom's out : employment after childbirth and firm-level responses
Carta, Francesca; Casarico, Alessandra; De Philippis, Marta - 2024
This paper explores how firms respond to the exit of mothers from the labour market after childbirth. As an exogenous shifter in mothers' quits, we use a policy reform that extended the potential duration of unemployment benefits, which Italian mothers can receive also upon resigning within 12...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014511578
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Disaggregate matching functions
Fahr, René; Sunde, Uwe - 2001
This paper deals with empirical matching functions. The paper is innovative in several ways. First, unlike in most of the existing literature, matching functions are estimated not only on aggregate, but also on disaggregate levels which is unusual due to the scarcity of appropriate data....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011403040
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Disaggregate Matching Functions
Fahr, Rene; Sunde, Uwe - 2021
This paper deals with empirical matching functions. The paper is innovative in several ways. First, unlike in most of the existing literature, matching functions are estimated not only on aggregate, but also on disaggregate levels which is unusual due to the scarcity of appropriate data....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320863
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Recruitment policies, job-filling rates and matching efficiency
Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos; Gartner, Hermann; Kaas, Leo - 2020
Recruitment behavior is important for the matching process in the labor market. Using unique linked survey …-administrative data, we explore the relationships between hiring and recruitment policies. Faster hiring goes along with higher search … directed search model in which firms use different recruitment margins in response to productivity shocks. The calibrated model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012213824
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Recruitment policies, job-filling rates and matching efficiency
Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos; Gartner, Hermann; Kaas, Leo - 2020
Recruitment behavior is important for the matching process in the labor market. Using unique linked survey …-administrative data, we explore the relationships between hiring and recruitment policies. Faster hiring goes along with higher search … directed search model in which firms use different recruitment margins in response to productivity shocks. The calibrated model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012219357
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The Cyclicality of Separation and Job Finding Rates
Fujita, Shigeru - 2019
This paper uses CPS gross flow data, adjusted for margin error and time aggregation error, to analyze the business cycle dynamics of separation and job finding rates and to quantify their contributions to overall unemployment variability. Cyclical changes in the separation rate lead those of...
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