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Churning in thick labor markets. Evidence of heterogeneous responses along the skill and experience gradients

Leknes, Stefan - 2017

Using a very large comprehensive matched employer-employee panel of the Norwegian workforce (19 million observations), I find a higher likelihood of job change across sectors and occupations, namely labor churning, in populous areas. Further investigation shows that this result is driven by high...

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The Beveridge curve and labour market flows - a reinterpretation

Gottfries, Nils; Stadin, Karolina - 2019

According to search-matching theory, the Beveridge curve slopes downward because vacancies are filled more quickly when unemployment is high. Using monthly panel data for local labour markets in Sweden we find no (or only weak) evidence that high unemployment makes it easier to fill vacancies....

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Worker Separations in a Nonstationary Corporate Environment

Dohmen, Thomas J.; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2000

This paper investigates differences in worker turnover characteristics between periods of workforce expansion and … in turnover behavior. A generally important result is that smooth functional forms of the age effect on worker mobility …

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Leontaridi, Rannia M.; Ward, Melanie E. - 2002

The paper uses data from the International Social Surveys Program (ISSP) to investigate work-related stress among a group of 15 OECD countries. It examines the determinants of work-related stress and explores the importance of work-related stress as a predictor of individuals' quitting behaviour...

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Two-Sided Learning, Labor Turnover and Worker Displacement

Pfann, Gerard A.; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2001

We construct a general dynamic structural model of two-sided learning between a firm and its workers. We estimate an empirical version of the model using personnel data from Fokker Aircraft that cover the path of layoffs and quits through its bankruptcy. We find that the firm learns about its...

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Firm-specific Training: Consequences for Job Mobility

Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; Zweimüller, Josef - 2000

This paper analyzes the impact of formal training on worker mobility. Using data from the Swiss Labor Force Survey, we find that on-the-job search activities and, to a smaller extent, actual job separations are significantly affected by both employer-provided and general training. Moreover,...

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The effects of international migration on native workers' unionisation in Austria

Anton, Jose-Ignacio; Böheim, René; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2016

workers is driven not by natives leaving unions, but by the different composition of turnover depending on the share of …

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The retention effect of training: Portability, visibility, and credibility

Dietz, Daniel; Zwick, Thomas - 2016

This paper analyses the effect of training participation on employees' retention in the training company. It for the first time empirically combines the human capital and the monopsony theory by jointly controlling for the portability, visibility, and credibility of training. Based on an...

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Working Time Accounts and Turnover

Launov, Andrey - 2019

destruction at almost any level of firm's productivity. Model predictions are consistent with dynamics of aggregate turnover in …

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Working time accounts and turnover

Launov, Andrey - 2019

literature suggests that working time accounts are likely to reduce turnover and inhibit increase in unemployment during … recessions. In a model of optimal labour demand I show that working time account does not necessarily guarantee lower turnover at … a firm level. Turnover may be reduced or increased depending on whether the firm meets economic downturn with surplus or …

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