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(Spillover) effects of labour market reforms in Germany and France
Fries, Claudia; Seymen, Atılım - 2013
countries - Germany and France - on the domestic and foreign economy. We test the implications of the gains in matching …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010432449
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The IZA Evaluation Dataset : Towards Evidence-Based Labor Policy-Making
Caliendo, Marco - 2011
Germany from 2001 to 2008 and contains around 920,000 individuals. The complementary survey covers a panel of more than 17 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131930
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A cross-country comparison of labor market frictions
Ridder, Geert; Berg, Gerard J. van den - 2002
In this paper we define and estimate measures of labor market frictions using data on job durations. We compare different estimation methods and different types of data. We propose and apply an unconditional inference method that can be applied to aggregate duration data. It does not require...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011574924
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The iceberg decomposition: a parsimonious way to map the health of labour markets
Baert, Stijn - 2020
This article introduces the metaphor of the iceberg in the labour market. While policy in most OECD countries has 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...
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
This article introduces the metaphor of the iceberg in the labour market. While policy in most OECD countries has 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012249694
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What shifts did Covid-19 year 2020 bring to the labour market in Europe?
Baert, Stijn - 2021
This article discusses the evolution of key labour market indicators in the EU-27 countries between 2019 and 2020, i.e. between the year before the covid-19 crisis broke out and the year in which it impacted the economy heavily. Whereas earlier policy-oriented studies have dealt with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012505164
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Estimating the effect of a retraining program on the re-employment rate of displaced workers
Cavaco, Sandra; Fougère, Denis; Pouget, Julien - 2009
In this paper we estimate by matching techniques the effects of a French retraining program on the reemployment rate of …. Our empirical analysis is based upon non-experimental data collected by the French Ministry of Labour. Matching estimates …. -- Evaluation ; retraining program ; displaced workers ; matching estimates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003860913
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Estimating the Effect of a Retraining Program on the Re-Employment Rate of Displaced Workers
Cavaco, Sandra - 2009
In this paper we estimate by matching techniques the effects of a French retraining program on the reemployment rate of …. Our empirical analysis is based upon non-experimental data collected by the French Ministry of Labour. Matching estimates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158616
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How far from full employment? : the European unemployment problem revisited
Gökten, Meryem; Heimberger, Philipp; Lichtenberger, Andreas - 2024
crisis, but few countries hit full employment. Panel regressions highlight that hysteresis, labour market institutions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014507179
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Matching Efficiency and Labour Market Heterogeneity in the United Kingdom
Pizzinelli, Carlo - 2017
This paper investigates how compositional changes in the UK labour market affect the matching process between vacancies … and job seekers. We augment a state space representation of the aggregate matching function with a measure of job seekers … developments in the literature. The baseline results show that matching efficiency declined by around 15% between 1995 and 2010 but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012950327