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Job loss by wage level : lessons from the Great Recession in Ireland
Nolan, Brian; Voitchovsky, Sarah - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 5 (2016) 7, pp. 1-25
This paper explores the incidence of job loss by wage level during the Great Recession, using data for Ireland. Ireland experienced a particularly pronounced decline in employment by international and historical standards, which makes it a valuable case study. Using EU Survey on Income and...
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Germany and the United States in coronavirus distress : internal versus external labour market flexibility
Herzog-Stein, Alexander; Nüß, Patrick; Peede, Lennert; … - In: Journal for labour market research 56 (2022) 1, pp. 1-22
Germany and the United States pursued different economic strategies to minimise the impact of the Coronavirus Crisis on … the labour market. Germany focused on safeguarding existing jobs through the use of internal flexibility measures … contrasting it with the chosen strategy in the United States. In Germany, temporary cyclical reductions in working hours are …
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Epidemic-economic complexity of COVID-19 policies across skill groups and geographies
Dall Schmidt, Torben; Mitze, Timo - In: Regional studies : official journal of the Regional … 58 (2024) 2, pp. 322-335
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Language training for unemployed non-natives: who benefits the most?
Kivi, Laura Helena; Sõmer, Marko; Kallaste, Epp - In: Baltic journal of economics 20 (2020) 1, pp. 34-58
This study evaluates the local language training aimed at the unemployed in Estonia during 2015-2016. The impact of training on employment probability and labour income is estimated by combining propensity score matching with coarsened exact matching. The impact on the probability of being...
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Routine job dynamics in the Swiss labor market
Gschwendt, Christian - In: Swiss journal of economics and statistics 158 (2022) 1, pp. 1-21
I investigate the role of labor market flows in the decline of routine employment in Switzerland between 1992 and 2018 using rich individual-level panel data from the Swiss Labour Force Survey. Existing research on the labor market effects of digital transformation has identified jobs with a...
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Who suffers from unemployment? : the role of health and skills
Nilsson, Anton - In: IZA journal of labor policy 4 (2015), pp. 1-24
Unemployment swings have distributional consequences if some groups are hit harder than others. We examine if the … sensitivity to local unemployment rates varies by characteristics such as health, cognitive ability and non-cognitive ability … unemployment rate are associated with larger variations for those with poor health or with a low non-cognitive ability. This …
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The anatomy of job polarisation in the UK
Salvatori, Andrea - In: Journal for labour market research 52 (2018) 8, pp. 1-15
This paper studies the contribution of different skill groups to the polarisation of the UK labour market. We show that the large increase in graduate numbers contributed to the substantial reallocation of employment from middling to top occupations which is the main feature of the polarisation...
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Labour market polarisation revisited : evidence from Austrian vacancy data
Zilian, Laura S.; Zilian, Stella; Jäger, Georg - In: Journal for labour market research 55 (2021) 1, pp. 1-17
Recent research suggests that new technologies are important drivers of empirically observed labour market polarisation. Many analyses in the field of economics are conducted to evaluate the changing share of employment in low-skill, medium-skill and high-skill occupations over time. This...
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A cross-country study of skills and unemployment flows
Stijepić, Damir - In: Journal for labour market research 55 (2021) 1, pp. 1-30
between skills and unemployment flows across 37 countries. Depending on the specifically assessed domain, I document that … skills have an unconditional correlation with the log-risk-ratio of exiting to entering unemployment of 0.65-0.68 across the …
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Deeper crisis, higher skills demand? : impact of the European financial crisis on demand for German language skills
Cyron, Laura; Mehrotra, Rahul - In: Education economics 30 (2022) 1, pp. 47-65
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