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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003775793
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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/10011325985
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003832154
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013021951
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014075269
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Sticky Wages on the Layoff Margin
Davis, Steven J.; Krolikowski, Pawel - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014337762
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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
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011412475
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Oil price shocks and labor market fluctuations
Ordóñez, Javier; Sala, Hector; Silva, José Ignacio - 2010
the US. -- oil prices ; unemployment ; vacancies ; business fluctuations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008779924
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Unemployment and endogenous reallocation over the business cycle
Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos; Visschers, Ludo - 2013 - This version: January 2013, First version: June 2010
We build an analytically and computationally tractable stochastic equilibrium model of unemployment in heterogeneous … countercyclical unemployment, and is simultaneously consistent with procyclical reallocation, countercyclical separations and a … negatively-sloped Beveridge curve. Moreover, the model exhibits unemployment duration dependence, which (when calibrated to long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009691688