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The economic effects of employment protection : evidence from International Industry-Level Data

Micco, Alejandro (contributor); Pagés, Carmen (contributor) - 2007

This paper examines the economic effects of employment protection legislation in a sample of developed and developing countries. Implementing a difference-indifferences test lessens the potentially severe endogeneity and omitted variable problems associated with cross-country regressions. This...

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The Importance of Employer-to-Employer Flows in the U.S. Labor Market

Fallick, Bruce; Fleischman, Charles A. - 2001

-cycle dynamics, economists have studied the flows of workers across the labor market states of employment, unemployment, and not in … twice the number that moved from employment to unemployment. Close to half of the new jobs started in 1999 represented …

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Hiring and firing costs, adverse selection and long-term unemployment

Kugler, Adriana D.; Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2000

In this paper, we present a matching model with adverse selection that explains why flows into and out of unemployment …

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Hiring and firing costs, adverse selection and long-term unemployment

Kugler, Adriana D.; Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2000

In this paper, we present a matching model with adverse selection that explains why flows into and out of unemployment …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001483257

Does job loss cause ill health?

Salm, Martin - 2009

Health and Retirement Study. Previous studies find a strong negative correlation between unemployment and health. To control … explained by reverse causality. -- Job displacement ; health ; unemployment …

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Sticky Wages on the Layoff Margin

Davis, Steven J.; Krolikowski, Pawel M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We design and field an innovative survey of unemployment insurance (UI) recipients that yields new insights about wage … efficient separations that holds in leading theories of job separations, frictional unemployment, and job ladders. We draw on …

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Labor Market Dynamics and Wage Losses of Displaced Workers in France and the United States

Lefranc, Arnaud - 2003

The objective of this paper is to provide a comparative assessment of the consequences of worker displacement in France and the United States. I estimate wage losses of displaced workers in the two countries and examine the relative contribution of two important sources of post-displacement wage...

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Job Loss in the Great Recession and its Aftermath : U.S. Evidence from the Displaced Workers Survey

Farber, Henry S. - 2015

The Great Recession from December 2007 to June 2009 is associated with a dramatic weakening of the labor market from which, by some measures, it has not completely recovered. I use data from the Displaced Workers Survey (DWS) from 1984-2014 to investigate the incidence and consequences of job...

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Interpreting Europe and US labor markets differences : the specificity of human capital investments

Wasmer, Etienne - 2002

little employment protection and low unemployment benefits, while the European model (generous benefits and higher duration …

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Estimating the effect of unemployment insurance compensation on the labor market histories of displaced workers

Jurajda, Štěpán - 2001

In this paper, U.S. data on labor market histories of displaced workers are used to quantify the effect of Unemployment … Insurance Compensation (UIC) on both unemployment and employment durations. This results in the first available assessment of … unemployment durations. …

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