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Immigration und Arbeitsmarkt : eine ökonomische Perspektive

Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1998

Based on the current European discussion about immigration policy, this paper gives an overview of central economic consequences of immigration for a host country's labor market. The most important theoretical arguments are presented and evaluated against the available empirical evidence. The...

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Coping with the Job Crisis and Preparing for Ageing: The Case of Finland

Braconier, Henrik - 2010

major challenges for policy makers in Finland. The recession of the early 1990s showed that high unemployment can leave long …, greater flexibility in wage setting, ensuring earlier activation of unemployed and reforming unemployment and social benefits … to better support work incentives. Finland has an unusual combination of elevated unemployment replacement rates and late …

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Targeting Tax Relief at Youth Employment

Webb, Matthew D.; Warman, Casey; Sweetman, Arthur - 2016

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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Job loss in the Great Recession: Historical perspective from the displaced workers survey, 1984-2010

Farber, Henry - 2011

which the labor market is now only slowly recovering. The unemployment rate remains stubbornly high and durations of … unemployment are unprecedentedly long. I use data from the Displaced Workers Survey (DWS) from 1984-2010 to investigate the …

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Regional structural change and the effects of job loss

Arntz, Melanie; Ivanov, Boris; Pohlan, Laura - 2022

Routine-intensive occupations have been declining in many countries, but how does this affect individual workers' careers if this decline is particularly severe in their local labor market? This paper uses administrative data from Germany and a matched difference-in-differences approach to show...

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Regional structural change and the effects of job loss

Arntz, Melanie; Ivanov, Boris; Pohlan, Laura - 2022

Routine-intensive occupations have been declining in many countries, but how does this affect individual workers’ careers if this decline is particularly severe in their local labor market? This paper uses administrative data from Germany and a matched difference-in-differences approach to...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013266324

Job Loss in the Great Recession: Historical Perspective from the Displaced Workers Survey, 1984-2010

Farber, Henry - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

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How Does Decentralised Minimum-Wage Setting Affect Unemployment and Informality? : The Case of Indonesia

Comola, Margherita - 2009

spanning the period 1996 to 2004. The effects of changes in the minimum wage on unemployment, formal-sector employment and the …

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Scars of recessions in a rigid labor market

Cockx, Bart; Ghirelli, Corinna - 2015

We study the impact of graduating in a recession in Flanders (Belgium), i.e. in a rigid labor market. In the presence of a high minimum wage, a typical recession hardly influences the hourly wage of low educated men, but reduces working time and earnings by about 4.5% up to twelve years after...

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Scars of recessions in a rigid labor market

Cockx, Bart; Ghirelli, Corinna - 2015

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