Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 2,887
Cover Image
Population with criminal records and racial disparity in labor markets
Boatner, Jasmine - In: IZA journal of labor policy 9 (2019) 1, pp. 1-13
Background: Although unemployment rates are at historical lows, there is still a persistent gap between unemployment …. Conclusions: Lowering the disproportionate rate at which black men are incarcerated will not in itself eliminate the unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012144886
Cover Image
To shape the future : how labor market entry conditions affect individuals s long-run wage profiles
Brunner, Beartice; Kuhn, Andreas - 2009
We study the long-run effects of initial labor market conditions on wages for a large sample of male individuals entering the Austrian labor market between 1978 and 2000. We find a robust negative effect of unfavorable entry conditions on starting wages. This initial effect turns out to be quite...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011343912
Cover Image
Information frictions and labor market outcomes
Cardoso, Ana Rute; Loviglio, Annalisa; Piemontese, Lavinia - 2015
unemployment rate and the actual unemployment rate in the country, which is a meaningful indicator of their misperception of labor … model includes: controls for the worker's ability; country-specific fixed effects; the unemployment rate in the region of … residence, which might be the benchmark respondents have in mind when reporting their perception of the national unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010528571
Cover Image
Young FSU migrants in Germany : educational attainment and early labor market outcomes
Flake, Regina - 2013
This study analyzes the educational attainment and early labor market outcomes of young migrants from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) who arrived in Germany between 1989 and 1994. The results reveal that migrants have lower educational attainments than natives, and that within the group of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009771160
Cover Image
Gender gaps of the unemployed : what drives diverging labor market outcomes?
Dauth, Christine - 2016
unemployment duration and the quality of reemployment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011535887
Cover Image
How do social networks affect labor markets? : job-referral networks can make labor markets more productive and efficient but may increase the importance of luck in job matches
Schmutte, Ian - 2016
Social networks, or “job-referral” networks, can help make labor markets become more efficient. Outside the firm, they help workers obtain employment after displacement and secure higher-paying jobs. They can also match highly-skilled workers to more productive employment. Inside the firm,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011554865
Cover Image
Labor market careers before and after Incarceration
Czafit, Bence; Köllő, János - 2014
We study the entry to formal employment and earnings of a large sample of convicts released from Hungarian prisons in 2002-2008. We identify the effect of the prison service on postrelease careers by exploiting differences in the timing of incarceration, on the one hand, and estimating fixed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010432286
Cover Image
Labor market careers before and after incarceration
Köllő, János; Czafit, Bence - 2014
We study the entry to formal employment and earnings of a large sample of convicts released from Hungarian prisons in 2002-2008. We identify the effect of the prison service on post-release careers by exploiting differences in the timing of incarceration, on the one hand, and estimating fixed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010436159
Cover Image
Automation and the jobs of young workers
Falcone, Guillermo; Brambilla, Irene; César, Andrés; … - In: Latin American economic review : LAER ; official … 31 (2022), pp. 1-31
New automation technologies affect workers in a heterogeneous manner according to their demographic characteristics, skills, and the tasks they perform. In this paper we study the effects of automation on labor market outcomes in a developing country, Chile. We focus our analysis on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012818023
Cover Image
Sexual orientation discrimination in the labor market against gay men
Drydakis, Nick - 2021
-2007. Moreover, the results suggested that unemployment bore an association with occupational access constraints and wage sorting in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012607746