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We conduct a résumé audit to estimate the impact of unemployment and underemployment on the employment prospects facing recent college graduates. We find no evidence that employers use current or past unemployment spells, regardless of their length, to inform hiring decisions. By contrast,...
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This paper uses matched employer-employee panel data on university graduates who obtained a Master's degree in 1988–2004 to study how facing adverse economic conditions upon graduation affects short- and long-term labor market outcomes in Finland. Among all graduation cohorts, the average...
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skills, human capital accumulation, on-the-job training and capital-skill complementarity. We use an endogenous job …, a larger share of unskilled workers seeks training, increasing firms’ incentives to update job-specific technology … unemployment for individuals receiving training, while it increases the unemployment rate of unskilled workers without training …
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agents in terms of skills. We allow for the possibility of training for unskilled employed workers and for the possibility of …
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We use an audit study approach to investigate how unemployment duration, age, and holding a low-level "interim" job affect the likelihood that experienced college- educated females applying for an administrative support job receive a callback from a potential employer. First, the results show no...
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I investigate the impact of parental unemployment on children's educational attainment and long-run labor market outcomes in Austria. I find that parental unemployment shortly before an important educational decision by parents for their children lowers a child's probability of holding a...
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We document the sharp expansion of higher education in China beginning in 1999 and analyze its impacts on the unemployment of college graduates, using nationally representative population surveys from 2000 and 2005. We show that the expansion policy has increased the probability of college...
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