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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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The Italian wage curve reloaded : does occupation matter?
Gucciardi, Gianluca - 2014
wages and the local unemployment rate - within a number of occupations. It exploits the Bank of Italy’s Household Survey and …
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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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Why Has the U.S. Beveridge Curve Shifted Back? New Evidence Using Regional Data
Valletta, Robert G. - 2007
The Beveridge curve depicts the empirical relationship between job vacancies and unemployment, which in turn reflects … paper combines aggregate and regional data on job vacancies and unemployment to estimate the U.S. aggregate and regional …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013332144
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No longer qualified? : changes in the supply and demand for skills within occupations
Burke, Mary A.; Sasser, Alicia; Sadighi, Shahriar; … - 2020 - This version: October 2019
Using a novel database of 159 million online job postings, we examine changes in employer skill requirements for education and specific skillsets between 2007 and 2017. We find that upskilling - in terms of increasing demands for bachelor's degrees as well as software skills - was a persistent...
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No longer qualified? : changes in the supply and demand for skills within occupations
Sasser, Alicia; Burke, Mary A.; Sadighi, Shahriar; … - 2023
Although labor market "mismatch" often refers to an imbalances in supply and demand across occupations, mismatch within occupations can arise if skill requirements are changing over time, potentially reducing aggregate matching efficiency within the labor market. To test this, we examine changes...
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The relevance of post-match LTC : why has the Spanish labor market become as volatile as the US one?
Sala, Hector (contributor); Silva, José Ignacio (contributor) - 2005
We present a Search and Matching model with heterogeneous workers (entrants and incumbents) that replicates the stylized facts characterizing the US and the Spanish labor markets. Under this benchmark, we find the Post-Match Labor Turnover Costs (PMLTC) to be the centerpiece to explain why the...
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How aging of the labor force affects equilibrium unemployment
Hetze, Pascal; Ochsen, Carsten - 2005
standard model of equilibrium unemployment and search in the labor market by the distinction between age specific separation … to this, the unemployment rate in Germany and Japan will rise as a consequence of the increase in the share of elderly … workers. -- Vacancies and Separations ; Unemployment ; Job Creation ; Aging of the Labor Force ; Demographic Change …
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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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