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The scarring effects of unemployment, low pay and skills under-utilisation in Australia compared
Mavromaras, Kostas G.; Sloane, Peter J.; Zhang, Wei - 2013
There is a substantial literature on the scarring effects of unemployment on future employment prospects and a smaller … HILDA survey data to investigate the inter-related dynamics of unemployment, low pay and skills under-utilisation in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009754550
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Unemployment or overeducation : which is a worse signal to employers?
Baert, Stijn; Verhaest, Dieter - 2014
This study aims at estimating the stigma effect of unemployment and overeducation within one framework. To this end, we … from the employer side, we find evidence for a larger stigma effect of unemployment than overeducation. The stigma effect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010380878
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Offshoring of medium-skill jobs, polarization, and productivity effect : implications for wages and low-skill unemployment
Vallizadeh, Ehsan; Muysken, Joan; Ziesemer, Thomas - 2015
We examine the effects of endogenous offshoring on cost-efficiency, wages and unemployment in a task-assignment model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010477956
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Immigration, offshoring and American jobs
Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; Peri, Giovanni; Wright, Greg C. - 2010
How many "American jobs" have U.S.-born workers lost due to immigration and offshoring? Or, alternatively, is it possible that immigration and offshoring, by promoting cost-savings and enhanced efficiency in firms, have spurred the creation of jobs for U.S. natives? We consider a multi-sector...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008747717
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Immigration, Offshoring and American Jobs
Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P. - 2010
How many "American jobs" have U.S.-born workers lost due to immigration and offshoring? Or, alternatively, is it possible that immigration and offshoring, by promoting cost-savings and enhanced efficiency in firms, have spurred the creation of jobs for U.S. natives? We consider a multi-sector...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135121
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Skill Accumulation in the Search Unemployment Model
Kim, Yong - 2007
This paper analyses the correlation between employment duration, unemployment duration and general skill accumulation …, and both variables are negatively correlated with the duration of unemployment spells. With search frictions, general …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012728831
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The Distribution of Skills Among the European Adult Population and Unemployment : A Comparative Approach
Calero, Jorge - 2015
The most painful effect of the Great Recession in European countries has been the surge in unemployment rates during a … Adult Competencies (PIAAC). Skill levels play a central role in explaining unemployment in Europe and act as an indirect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013011188
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A Cross-Country Study of Workers' Skills and Unemployment Flows
Stijepic, Damir - 2020
between skills and unemployment flows across 37 countries. Depending on the specifically assessed domain, I document that … skills have an unconditional correlation with the log-risk-ratio of exiting to entering unemployment of 0.62–0.70 across the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012854746
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Unemployment or Overeducation : Which is a Worse Signal to Employers?
Baert, Stijn - 2014
This study aims at estimating the stigma effect of unemployment and overeducation within one framework. To this end, we … from the employer side, we find evidence for a larger stigma effect of unemployment than overeducation. The stigma effect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013050630
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Coworker networks and the role of occupations in job finding
Gyetvai, Attila; Zhu, Maria - 2021
job finding networks. Using matched employer-employee data from Hungary, this paper relates the unemployment duration of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012601169