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On the geography of unemployment rates and the spatial sorting of workers' schooling : (preliminary version prepared for the 2013 ERSA Meeting)
López-Bazo, Enrique; Motellón, Elisabet - 2013
spatial distribution of individuals' education and regional unemployment rates. We provide novel evidence showing that i) the … impact of individual's education on unemployment largely varies across regions and, ii) regional disparities in the level of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011537775
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Do reservation wages react to regional unemployment? : paper prepared for presentation at the ERSA 2012
Blien, Uwe; Messmann, Susanne; Trappmann, Mark - 2012
Reservation wages indicate the wage threshold for which individual workers are inclined to supply their working capacity. In important theoretical approaches it is assumed that this threshold depends on the unemployment rate. If this is true, the variation of reservation wages might be an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011512741
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Composite indicators of flexibilization across EU regions : a critical re-appraisal and interpretation
Gialis, Stelios; Leontidu, Lila; Taylor, Michael - 2014
The aim of the paper is to present a comparative analysis of the diffusion of ?flexible contractual arrangements' (FCA) across the European Union (EU). The homonymous FCA Composite Indicator (CI) is calculated for all 200 NUTS II-level regions of France, Germany, the UK, Denmark, Sweden,...
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Is higher education mobility a good investment for EU lagging regions? : the case of Master and Back, an active labour market policy co‐financed by the European Social Fund. : XII...
Orrù, Enrico - 2012
). Human capital theory predicts investment in education to improve labour market outputs. However, when it comes to lagging …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011515610
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The geographic reach of knowledge spillovers : a functional regression approach with precise geo-referenced data
Eppelsheimer, Johann; Rust, Christoph - 2019
This paper applies functional regression to precise geo-coded register data to measure productivity spillovers from high-skilled workers. We use a smoothing splines estimator to model the spatial distribution of high-skilled workers as continuous curves. Our rich panel data allows us to address...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012317611
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Regional payroll tax cuts and individual wages : heterogeneous effects across education groups
Stokke, Hildegunn Ekroll - 2016
of the labor demand elasticity decreases with the level of education. …
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Unequal distribution of salary from a gender perspective and the impact of recession on the Catalan labor market
Gómez Adillón, M. Jesús; Cabasés Piqué, M. Àngels - 2014
incorporation of women with a higher level of education and qualification in the labor market can be observed in the recession …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011505783
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The cohort size-wage relationship in Europe
Moffat, John D.; Roth, Duncan - 2013 - Preliminary draft
The demographic and education composition of European countries is changing: the population share of young individuals … imperfectly substitutable with workers of different ages. Consequently, an increase in the population share of a specific age-education … effect of cohort size on individual wages rather than on the average wage of a specific age-education group which allows …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011534677
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Impact of recession on the employment in Catalonia from a gender and age perspective
Cabasés Piqué, Àngels; Adillón, M. Jesús Gómez; … - 2016
In Catalonia, between 2008 and 2014, the rate of youth unemployment has exponentially increased and it has turned into a structural problem: when the fourth quarter of 2014 ended, among the people under the age of 30, the number of unemployed people was 1,495,600, 645,000 more than in the first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012490720
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Labour market adjustments to population decline : a historical macroeconomic perspective, 1875-2016
Hellwagner, Timon; Weber, Enzo - 2021
According to demographic projections, advanced economies will face population decline in the years and decades to come, particularly among working-age. Despite this impending profound transition, there is little empirical evidence of corresponding labour market implications. Tackling this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013341792