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The Unintended Consequences of Employer Credit Check Bans for Labor Markets
Cortés, Kristle Romero - 2020
estimate that county-level job vacancies have fallen by 5.5 percent in occupations affected by these laws relative to exempt … occupations in the same counties and national-level vacancies for the same occupations. Crosssectional heterogeneity suggests that … employers use credit reports as signals of a worker's ability to perform the job: vacancies fall more in counties with a large …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012827747
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Individual and market-level effects of UI policies : evidence from Missouri
Karahan, Fatih; Mitman, Kurt; Moore, Brendan - 2019
We develop a method to jointly measure the response of worker search effort (individual effect) and vacancy creation (market-level effect) to changes in the duration of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits. To implement this approach, we exploit an unexpected cut in UI durations in Missouri and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012137594
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Individual and market-level effects of UI policies : evidence from Missouri
Karahan, Fatih; Mitman, Kurt; Moore, Brendan - 2019
We develop a method to jointly measure the response of worker search effort (individual effect) and vacancy creation (market-level effect) to changes in the duration of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits. To implement this approach, we exploit an unexpected cut in UI durations in Missouri and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012139297
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Effects of employment protection on worker and job flows : evidence from the 1990 Italian reform
Kugler, Adriana D. (contributor); Pica, Giovanni (contributor) - 2005
This paper uses the Italian Social Security employer-employee panel to study the effects of the Italian reform of 1990 on worker and job flows. We exploit the fact that this reform increased unjust dismissal costs for firms below 15 employees, while leaving dismissal costs unchanged for bigger...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003095432
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Effects of Employment Protection on Worker and Job Flows : Evidence from the 1990 Italian Reform
Kugler, Adriana D. - 2019
This paper uses the Italian Social Security employer-employee panel to study the effects of the Italian reform of 1990 on worker and job flows. We exploit the fact that this reform increased unjust dismissal costs for firms below 15 employees, while leaving dismissal costs unchanged for bigger...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012903630
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Effects of Employment Protection on Worker and Job Flows : Evidence from the 1990 Italian Reform
Kugler, Adriana D.; Pica, Giovanni - 2021
This paper uses the Italian Social Security employer-employee panel to study the effects of the Italian reform of 1990 on worker and job flows. We exploit the fact that this reform increased unjust dismissal costs for firms below 15 employees, while leaving dismissal costs unchanged for bigger...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318266
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Has COVID-19 Induced Labor Market Mismatch? Evidence from the US and the UK
Pizzinelli, Carlo; Shibata, Ippei - 2022
vacancies across sectors until the third quarter of 2021. We find that mismatch rose sharply at the onset of the pandemic but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013295149
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The aggregate effects of the Hartz reforms in Germany : conference paper
Hertweck, Matthias Sebastian; Sigrist, Oliver - 2013
This paper quantifies the impact of the Hartz reforms on matching efficiency, using monthly SOEP gross worker flows (1983-2009). We show that, until the early 2000s, close to 60% of changes in the unemployment rate are due to changes in the inflow rate (job separation). On the contrary, since...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010339386
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Combined and distributional effects of EPL reduction and hiring incentives : an assessment using non-linear DiD
Ardito, Chiara; Berton, Fabio; Pacelli, Lia - 2019
Two decades of unsuccessful marginal labour market reforms provided the political support to reduce the flexibility gap between temporary and open-ended workers by means of a retrenchment of the employment protection benefitting the latter. To support employment levels during the crisis years,...
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The economic effects of private equity buyouts
Davis, Steven J.; Haltiwanger, John C.; Handley, Kyle; … - 2021
We examine thousands of U.S. private equity (PE) buyouts from 1980 to 2013, a period that saw huge swings in credit market tightness and GDP growth. Our results show striking, systematic differences in the real-side effects of PE buyouts, depending on buyout type and external conditions....
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