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The insider-outsider theory : a survey
Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002
costs influence insider wages and outsiders' opportunities and how these costs affect employment and unemployment. We also … address the more complex, and open, question of how employment and unemployment move through time, in response to labor market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011412195
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Employment dynamics in a signaling model with workers' incentives
Weingarden, Alison - 2016
Many firms adjust employment in a "lumpy" manner -- infrequently and in large bursts. In this paper, I show that lumpy adjustments can arise from concerns about the incentives of remaining workers. Specifically, I develop a model in which a firm's productivity depends on its workers' effort and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011709242
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Reducing severance costs or subsidizing permanent job creation : which policy is more effective to reduce duality?
Osuna, Victoria - 2015
This paper introduces endogenous on-the-job training in the job creation and destruction model of the search and matching type by García-Pérez and Osuna (Dual labour markets and the tenure distribution: Reducing severance pay or introducing a single contract, 2014). The objective is to compare...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011290858
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Reducing severance costs or subsidizing permanent job creation : which policy is more effective to reduce duality?
Osuna-Padilla, Victoria - 2015
This paper uses the job creation and destruction model of the search and matching type proposed by García-Pérez and Osuna (2014) to study the effectiveness of subsidizing permanent job creation as a strategy to reduce labour market segmentation between permanent and temporary contracts. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010506295
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Labor market polarization over the business cycle
Foote, Christopher L.; Ryan, Richard W. - 2014 - This version: December 26, 2014
over long periods of time. The authors of this paper construct a new dataset of occupational employment and unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010493670
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The Low-Skill, Bad-Job Trap
Snower, Dennis J. - 2008
The paper explains how a country can fall into a quot;low-skill, bad-job trap,quot; in which workers acquire insufficient training and firms provide insufficient skilled vacancies. In particular, the paper argues that in countries where a large proportion of the workforce is unskilled, firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012774282
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Born under a bad sign : the impact of finishing school when labour markets are weak
Regan, Mark; Roantree, Barra - 2021
This paper provides evidence that finishing school when labour markets are weak leads to poor subsequent labour market prospects, particularly those leaving school at younger ages. Using administrative register data from Denmark, we find that these scarring effects are larger and more persistent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012623701
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Immigration und Arbeitsmarkt : eine ökonomische Perspektive
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1998
Based on the current European discussion about immigration policy, this paper gives an overview of central economic consequences of immigration for a host country's labor market. The most important theoretical arguments are presented and evaluated against the available empirical evidence. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011294532
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Employee referrals and efficiency wages
Kugler, Adriana D. - 2002
Many workers believe that personal contacts are crucial for obtaining jobs in high-wage sectors. On the other hand, firms in high-wage sectors report using employee referrals because they help provide screening and monitoring of new employees. This paper develops a matching model that can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011414855
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Beveridgean unemployment gap
Michaillat, Pascal; Saez, Emmanuel - In: Journal of public economics plus 2 (2021), pp. 1-17
This paper develops a sufficient-statistic formula for the unemployment gap-the difference between the actual … unemployment rate and the efficient unemployment rate. While lowering unemployment puts more people into work, it forces firms to … post more vacancies and to devote more resources to recruiting. This unemployment-vacancy tradeoff, governed by the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012800439