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Flexibility at the margin and labour market volatility: The case of Spain

Sala, Héctor; Silva, José I. - In: Investigaciones Economicas 33 (2009) 2, pp. 145-178

high turnover and lack of on-the-job training of temporary employees. To explain the high volatility of the Spanish labour …

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Human Capital and Labour Productivity, Integration of Institutions and Endogenous Growth

Delsen, Lei; Schonewille, Mark - EconWPA - 1999

usual in empirical research, e.g. further schooling and training, experience and external effects. Empirical tests show that … importance of further education and training, especially on-the-job training. …

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The dynamics of labor markets in Europe and the US: Specific skills or employment protection?

Delacroix, Alain; Wasmer, Etienne - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2006

We argue that the main difference between European and American labor markets is not so much in the unemployment rates, but maybe more importantly in the reduced flows into and out of unemployment, in Europe. Employment protection legislations (EPL) have been extensively studied in the...

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The frisch elasticity in labor markets with high job turnover

Céspedes Reynaga, Nikita; Rendon, Silvio - 2012

We estimate Frisch elasticity in a labor market with high job turnover. In a context where only around 18% of the employed labor force has formal and stable jobs, we perform a fixed effects estimation as proposed by MaCurdy (1981) with a Heckman correction for selection into unemployment. We...

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The insider-outsider theory: a survey

Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002

This article is an idiosyncratic survey of the insider-outsider theory, describing the vision underlying the theory, and evaluating salient contributions to the literature in the light of this vision. We also indicate what appear to have been dead-ends and red herrings in past research. The...

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Leiharbeit im Profifußball: Sind Leihspieler stärker motiviert?

Müller, Michael - 2015

Bisherige Studien zur Leiharbeit haben sich primär mit den Arbeitsbedingungen sowie den strategischen Einsatzgründen der Leiharbeit befasst. In diesem Beitrag wird versucht, erste Erkenntnisse zum Leistungsverhalten von Leiharbeitnehmern zu erhalten. Der Arbeitsmarkt für Profifußballer...

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High discounts and low fundamental surplus: An equivalence result for unemployment fluctuations

Mitra, Indrajit; Seo, Taeuk; Xu, Yu - 2021

Ljungqvist and Sargent (2017) (LS) show that unemployment fluctuations can be understood in terms of a quantity they call the "fundamental surplus." However, their analysis ignores risk premia, a force that Hall (2017) shows is important in understanding unemployment fluctuations. We show how...

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Can Temporary Wage Incentives Increase Formal Employment? Experimental Evidence from Mexico

Abel, Martin; Carranza, Eliana; Geronimo, Kimberly; … - 2022

Formal sector entry-level jobs in Mexico offer low starting salaries but substantial wage growth. This paper experimentally tests whether a six-months wage incentive can increase formal employment among secondary school graduates. Combining survey and high-frequency social security data, the...

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Search Frictions, Credit Constraints and Firm Financed General Training

Holzner, Christian - 2005

This paper shows that in a search model where future employers of trained workers donot benefit from the training in … other firms, investment into general training will only be below the competitive level if workers are credit constrained. If … workers are credit constrained, then the training firm cannot recover the cost of training since trained workers will search …

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Can employment subsidies and greater labour market flexibility increase job opportunities for youth? Revisiting the Italian On-the-job Training Program

Tattara, Giuseppe; Valentini, Marco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

The CFL (On-the-job Training) programme was introduced in Italy in 1985 with the aim of reducing youth unemployment …

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