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Explaining the Spread of Temporary Jobs and its Impact on Labor Turnover
Cahuc, Pierre - 2012
This paper provides a simple model which explains the choice between permanent and temporary jobs. This model, which incorporates important features of actual employment protection legislations neglected by the economic literature so far, reproduces the main stylized facts about entries into...
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Explaining the spread of temporary jobs and its impact on labor turnover
Cahuc, Pierre; Charlot, Olivier; Malherbet, Franck - In: International economic review 57 (2016) 2, pp. 533-571
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Reduction of Employment Protection in Europe : A Comparative Fuzzy-Set Analysis
Ochel, Wolfgang; Hülsewig, Anja - 2021
Since the middle of the 1980s many European countries have reduced the strictness of their employment protection mainly by relaxing it for temporary jobs. These countries are Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and Sweden. The article explores the...
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Explaining the spread of temporary jobs and its impact on labor turnover
Cahuc, Pierre; Charlot, Olivier; Malherbet, Franck - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009526539
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Why is Employment Protection Stricter in Europe than in the Us?
Belot, Michèle - 2004
In this paper, we argue that the reason why the United States prefer a lower level of employment protection than the European countries lies in the differences in gains and costs from geographical mobility. We present a model where labor migration and employment protection are both determined...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014068478
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Labor flows in Hungary and Europe
Kónya, István - 2016
It is common practice in the literature to compute labor flows from data on stocks. To use these flows in standard search models, it is assumed that the economically relevant movements occur between employment and unemployment. If there are significant flows between labor force participation and...
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The Distributional Impacts of Worker Reallocation : Evidence from Europe
Bluedorn, John C.; Caselli, Francesca; Hansen, Niels-Jakob - 2022
Using individual-level data for 30 European countries between 1983 and 2019, we document the extent and earning consequences of workers’ reallocation across occupations and industries and how these outcomes vary with individual-level characteristics, namely (i) education, (ii) gender, and...
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Interpreting Europe and US labor markets differences : the specificity of human capital investments
Wasmer, Etienne - 2002
while considered as extremely large in the public debate in Europe. The main argument is based on a fundamental property of …. Two sets of implications are then derived: on one hand, mobility costs are high in Europe and transitions between steady …-states has especially strong adverse effects. Jobs endogenously last longer in Europe than in the US, but when they are destroyed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011412475
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Interpreting Europe and Us Labor Markets Differences : The Specificity of Human Capital Investments
Wasmer, Etienne - 2021
while considered as extremely large in the public debate in Europe. The main argument is based on a fundamental property of …. Two sets of implications are then derived: on one hand, mobility costs are high in Europe and turbulence has especially … strong adverse effects. Jobs endogenously last longer in Europe than in the US, but when they are destroyed, the welfare loss …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320448
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Identifying Labour Market Dynamics Using Labour Force Survey Data
Artola, Concha; Bell, Una-Louise - 2003
data or the appropriateness of the standard methodologies frequently used to analyse labour market dynamics in Europe (the … considerable number of spurious transitions being recorded. Whilst the use of quasi-longitudinal LFS data should in theory overcome …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014169915