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policy-oriented studies have dealt with the evolution of unemployment in 2020, often country by country, this letter focuses … on the evolution of unemployment as well as inactivity across European countries. Indeed, previous crises have typically … lead not only to more unemployment but also to larger numbers of discouraged unemployed and thus more inactivity. It …
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We investigate a prevalent, but understudied, employment protection policy: mandatory advance notice (MN), requiring employers to notify employees of forthcoming layoffs. MN increases future production, as notified workers search on the job, but reduces current production as they supply less...
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"recall") unemployment, those "employed but absent from work" for unspecified reasons, or not in the labour force while …
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Despite the fast growth in the Estonian economy, unemployment has remained high for extended periods of time. This … paper analyses and quantifies the mismatch between registered unemployment and vacancies and how it has contributed to … unemployment in the Estonian labour market at the (county) regional, occupational, and industrial levels for the time span 2011 …
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on the job finding rate but we find mixed effects in terms of post-unemployment wages. …
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We analyze the differential impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the Spanish labor market across population groups, as well as its implications for income inequality. The main finding is that young, less educated, and low skilled workers, as well as women are the most affected by the COVID-19 shock...
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change in the unemployment rate. Many estimated effects are larger for males than females. Notably, strong evidence of … displacement (substitution away from slightly older non-subsidized workers) is not observed. However, there may be a small …
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This paper provides evidence that finishing school when labour markets are weak leads to poor subsequent labour market prospects, particularly those leaving school at younger ages. Using administrative register data from Denmark, we find that these scarring effects are larger and more persistent...
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This paper estimates the effects of entering the labour market when the economy is weak on subsequent living standards using consistent long-running household survey data from the UK. In line with previous research, we find persistent scarring effects on employment and earnings. However, we also...
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According to search and matching theory, a greater availability of unemployed workers should make it easier for a firm to fill a vacancy but more vacancies at other firms should make recruitment more difficult. But what can we say about the expected magnitudes of these effects on firms’...
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