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The labour market impacts of leaving education when unemployment is high : evidence from Britain

Taylor, Mark P. - 2013

its successor Understanding Society. We find that the unemployment rate on leaving full-time education has large impacts …

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The Effect of the Hartz Labor Market Reforms on Post-unemployment Wages, Sorting, and Matching

Woodcock, Simon D. - 2020

a large increase in post-displacement employment in the temporary work sector after the reforms. Sorting into worse … wage loss. Collectively, the sorting and matching channels explain almost all of the Hartz reforms' effect on post-displacement …

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Reducing severance costs or subsidizing permanent job creation : which policy is more effective to reduce duality?

Osuna, Victoria - 2015

This paper introduces endogenous on-the-job training in the job creation and destruction model of the search and matching type by García-Pérez and Osuna (Dual labour markets and the tenure distribution: Reducing severance pay or introducing a single contract, 2014). The objective is to compare...

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Selective firing and lemons

Weynandt, Michèle - 2014

common types of displacement: individual layoffs, individuals displaced due to a closure and individuals displaced due to a …

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Employment dynamics in a signaling model with workers' incentives

Weingarden, Alison - 2016

Many firms adjust employment in a "lumpy" manner -- infrequently and in large bursts. In this paper, I show that lumpy adjustments can arise from concerns about the incentives of remaining workers. Specifically, I develop a model in which a firm's productivity depends on its workers' effort and...

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Reducing severance costs or subsidizing permanent job creation: Which policy is more effective to reduce duality?

Osuna, Victoria - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 9 (2015) 2015-17, pp. 1-35

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Reducing severance costs or subsidizing permanent job creation: Which policy is more effective to reduce duality?

Osuna, Victoria - 2015

This paper uses the job creation and destruction model of the search and matching type proposed by García-Pérez and Osuna (2014) to study the effectiveness of subsidizing permanent job creation as a strategy to reduce labour market segmentation between permanent and temporary contracts. The...

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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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What factors contributed to changes in employment during and after the Great Recession?

Farooq, Ammar; Kugler, Adriana D. - In: IZA journal of labor policy 4 (2015), pp. 1-28

Unemployment increased drastically over the course of the Great Recession from 4.5 percent prior to the recession to 10 … percent at its peak in October 2009. Since then, the unemployment rate has come down steadily, and it stood at 5.8 percent in … November 2014. Based on existing analyses and some new evidence, this paper establishes that much of the change in unemployment …

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Reducing severance costs or subsidizing permanent job creation : which policy is more effective to reduce duality?

Osuna-Padilla, Victoria - 2015

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