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Decentralisation of collective bargaining : a path to productivity?
Aglio, Daniele; Di Mauro, Filippo - 2020
Europe (CEE) and elsewhere in the continent (non-CEE). How is such phenomenon related to wage bargaining institutions …? Starting from the Great Financial Crisis (GFC) shock, we analyse whether the specific set-up of wage bargaining prevailing in … on wage bargaining institutions. We show that there is a substantial difference in the institutional set-up between the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012312336
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Interpreting Europe and US Labor Markets Differences: The Specificity of Human Capital Investments
Wasmer, Etienne - 2002
This paper suggests that in the US context, workers tend to invest in general human capital especially since they face little employment protection and low unemployment benefits, while the European model (generous benefits and higher duration of jobs) favors specific human capital investments....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262696
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Human Capital Mismatches along the Career Path
Nedelkoska, Ljubica; Neffke, Frank - 2010
Human capital is transferable across occupations, but only to a limited extent because of differences in occupational skill-profiles. Higher skill overlap between occupations renders less of individuals' human capital useless in occupational switches. Current occupational distance measures...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281656
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Human Capital Mismatches along the Career Path
Nedelkoska, Ljubica; Neffke, Frank - 2010
Human capital is transferable across occupations, but only to a limited extent because of differences in occupational skill-profiles. Higher skill overlap between occupations renders less of individuals' human capital useless in occupational switches. Current occupational distance measures...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008669978
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Do informal referrals leads to better matches? : evidence from a firm's employee referral system
Brown, Meta; Setren, Elizabeth; Topa, Giorgio - 2012
The limited nature of data on employment referrals in large business and household surveys has so far impeded our efforts to understand the relationships among employment referrals, match quality, wage trajectories, and turnover. Using a new firm-level data set that includes explicit information...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009580858
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Interpreting Europe and US labor markets differences : the specificity of human capital investments
Wasmer, Etienne - 2002
This paper suggests that in the US context, workers tend to invest in general human capital especially since they face little employment protection and low unemployment benefits, while the European model (generous benefits and higher duration of jobs) favors specific human capital investments....
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
This paper suggests that in the US context, workers tend to invest in general human capital especially since they face little employment protection and low unemployment benefits, while the European model (generous benefits and higher duration of jobs) favors specific human capital investments....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320448
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Labour market institutions and amplification of employment fluctuations
Matsue, Toyoki - In: Central European economic journal 6 (2019) 53, pp. 164-173
important features of the reforms are the reduction in adjustment costs and the introduction of fixed-term contracts (FTC). Some …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012303137
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What moves the Beveridge curve and the Phillips curve : an agent-based analysis
Chen, Siyan; Desiderio, Saul - 2017
Understanding what moves the Phillips curve is important to monetary policy. Because the Phillips curve has experienced over time movements similar to those characterizing the Beveridge curve, the authors jointly analyze the two phenomena. They do that through an agent-based macro model based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011723850
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What moves the Beveridge curve and the Phillips curve : an agent-based analysis
Chen, Siyan; Desiderio, Saul - 2018
Understanding what moves the Phillips curve is important to monetary policy. Because the Phillips curve has experienced over time movements similar to those characterizing the Beveridge curve, the authors jointly analyze the two phenomena. They do that through an agent-based macro model based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011776979