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Audoly, Richard; Bhuller, Manudeep; Reiremo, Tore Adam - 2024

How informative are job ads about the actual pay and amenities offered by employers? Using a comprehensive database of job ads posted by Norwegian employers, we develop a methodology to systematically classify the information on both pay and non-pay job attributes advertised in vacancy texts. We...

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Should serverance pay be consistent for all workers? : single, open-ended contracts with sesrverance pay smoothly rising with seniority can decrease both unemployment and job losse...

García Peréz, José Ignacio - 2015

The trend towards labor market flexibility in Europe has typically involved introducing legislation that makes it easier for firms to issue temporary contracts with low firing costs, while not changing the level of protection that is in place for permanent jobs. This has created a strong...

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The impact of SENAI's vocational training program on employment, wages, and mobility in Brazil : lessons for Sub Saharan Africa?

Villalobos Barría, Carlos; Klasen, Stephan - In: The quarterly review of economics and finance : journal … 62 (2016), pp. 74-96

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Doing well in reforming the labour market? : recent trends in job stability and wages in Germany

Giannelli, Gianna Claudia; Jaenichen, Ursula; Rothe, Thomas - 2013

The German "employment miracle", with a weak decline in employment and low unemployment during the great recession …

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Sustaining employment and wage gains in Brazil : a skills and jobs agenda

Silva, Joana - 2015

In the past 15 years, employment, labor market participation, and wages have grown significantly in Brazil. Improved … Gains in Brazil: A Skills and Jobs Agenda analyzes Brazil's labor markets and identifies the key challenges involved in … policy areas: (a) skills development (including through the flagship training program, PRONATEC); (b) unemployment insurance …

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Sustaining employment and wage gains in Brazil : a skills and jobs agenda

Silva, Joana; Almeida, Rita; Strokova, Victoria - 2015

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The role of the housing market in workers' resilience to job displacement after firm bankruptcy

Meekes, Jordy; Hassink, Wolter H. J. - 2017

We examine the role of the housing market in workers' adjustment to job displacement. Dutch administrative data were used and analysed with a quasi-experimental design involving job displacement. The empirical design eliminates the potential of endogenous selection into labour turnover. The...

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Teacher preferences, working conditions, and compensation structure

Johnston, Andrew - 2020

Improving schools depends on attracting high-caliber teachers and increasing retention, both made possible by appealing to teacher preferences. I deploy a discrete-choice experiment in a setting where teachers have reason to reveal their preferences. There are three main findings: (1) I...

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Flexible work arrangements in low wage jobs: evidence from job vacancy data

Adams, Abi; Balgova, Maria; Qian, Matthias - 2020

In this paper, we analyze firm demand for flexible jobs by exploiting the language used to describe work arrangements in job vacancies. We take a supervised machine learning approach to classify the work arrangements described in more than 46 million UK job vacancies. We highlight the existence...

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Trade adjustment : worker level evidence

Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H.; Song, Jae - 2014

We analyze the effect of exposure to international trade on earnings and employment of U.S. workers from 1992 through 2007 by exploiting industry shocks to import competition stemming from China's spectacular rise as a manufacturing exporter paired with longitudinal data on individual earnings...

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