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Creative Unemployment
Roed, Knut - 2010
We examine the impact of job loss on entrepreneurship behavior in Norway. Our identification strategy relies on the use of mass layoffs caused by bankruptcies as indicators of exogenous displacement. We find that working in a company which is going to close down due to bankruptcy during the next...
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Labor Courts, Nomination Bias, and Unemployment in Germany
Berger, Helge - 2006
bias in labor court activity - that is, court activity varies systematically with the political leaning of the government …
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Biased expectations and labor market outcomes : evidence from German survey data and implications for the East-West wage gap
Balleer, Almut; Duernecker, Georg; Forstner, Susanne; … - 2023
We measure individual bias in labor market expectations in German survey data and find that workers on average … pessimistic than West Germans. We find a significantly negative relationship between the pessimistic bias in job separation … expectations and wages, and a significantly positive relationship between optimistic bias in job finding expectations and …
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Biased expectations and labor market outcomes : evidence from German survey data and implications for the East-West wage gap
Balleer, Almut; Duernecker, Georg; Forstner, Susanne; … - 2024
We measure individual bias in labor market expectations in German survey data and find that workers on average … pessimistic than West Germans. We find a significantly negative relationship between the pessimistic bias in job separation … expectations and wages, and a significantly positive relationship between optimistic bias in job finding expectations and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014466945
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Informality, Public Employment and Employment Protection in Developing Countries
Langot, Francois; Yassin, Shaimaa - 2016
This paper proposes an equilibrium matching labor market model for developing countries where the interaction between public, formal and informal sectors is considered. Theoretical analysis shows that labor markets' liberalization reforms can be evicted by shifts in public employment. Since the...
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The Dynamics of Labour Market Polarization in Chile: An Analysis of the Link Between Technical Change and Informality
Delaporte, Isaure; Peña, Werner - 2023
In spite of the growing literature on polarization, relatively little is known about the individual-level patterns underlying the decline of routine occupations and its link with informal employment in a middle-income country context. To shed light on this, we examine the ows of formal and...
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Unemployment protection for informal workers in Latin America and the Caribbean
Finkelstein Shapiro, Alan; Sarzosa, Miguel - 2013
We use a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium search and matching model with salaried employment and informal self-employment to analyze the implications of introducing universal unemployment protection for informal workers through transfers, which are conditional on participation in training...
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Product market regulation, firm size, unemployment and informality in developing economies
Charlot, Olivier; Malherbet, Franck; Terra, Cristina - 2011
This paper studies the impact of product and labor market regulations on informality and unemployment in a general framework where formal and informal firms are subject to the same externalities, differing only with respect to some parameter values. Both formal and informal firms have monopoly...
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Product Market Regulation, Firm Size, Unemployment and Informality in Developing Economies
Charlot, Olivier - 2011
This paper studies the impact of product and labor market regulations on informality and unemployment in a general framework where formal and informal firms are subject to the same externalities, differing only with respect to some parameter values. Both formal and informal firms have monopoly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129903
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Education, Lack of Complementary Investment and Underemployment in an Open Economy
Marjit, Sugata; Ahuja, Rashmi; Pandey, Abhilasha - 2021
In many developing economies rate of unemployment is increasing with skill accumulation and thereby leading to underemployment. Our paper offers to look at skill formation as a demand side problem not as a traditional supply side problem and also how skill formation or education affects...
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