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Decomposing the Wage Losses of Displaced Workers: The Role of the Reallocation of Workers into Firms and Job Titles

Raposo, Pedro; Portugal, Pedro; Carneiro, Anabela - 2015

Using an unusually rich matched employer-employee-job title data set for Portugal, this paper evaluates the sources of wage losses of workers displaced due to firm closure based on the comparison of workers' wages differentials before and after displacement. Potential wage losses of displaced...

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Unemployment benefits and job match quality

Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)

Unemployment insurance schemes face a well-known trade-off between providing income support to those out of work and reducing their incentive to look for work. This trade-off between benefits and incentives is central to the public debate about extending benefit periods during the recent...

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Should severance pay be consistent for all workers?

Pérez, J. Ignacio García - In: IZA World of Labor (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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Job loss and social capital: The role of family, friends and wider support networks

Gush, Karon; Scott, James; Laurie, Heather - 2015

Finding a new job is not the only problem the unemployed face. How to manage the loss of income, status and identity can also be a serious consideration for those in between jobs. In-depth qualitative interviews reveal that family, friends and wider networks are important mainstays in helping...

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The Perverse Effects of Job-Security Provisions on Job Security in Italy: Results from a Regression Discontinuity Design

Hijzen, Alexander; Mondauto, Leopoldo; Scarpetta, Stefano - 2013

This paper analyses the impact of employment protection (EP) on the composition of the workforce and worker turnover … using a unique firm-level dataset for Italy. The impact of employment protection is analyzed by means of a regression … of employment protection persists among larger firms well beyond the threshold and may account for about 20% of the …

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Effect of Past Coworkers on Job Search Evidence from Austria

Weynandt, Michèle; Saygin, Perihan; Weber, Andrea - 2013

This paper evaluates the strength of information flow from employed past coworkers on the re-employment duration of …-entry tenure. We find that a 10 percentage point increase in the network employment rate leads to a 3.2 percent increase in the …

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Fiscal Consolidation in Reformed and Unreformed Labour Markets: A Look at EU Countries

Turrini, Alessandro - 2012

This paper estimates the impact of fiscal consolidation on unemployment and job market flows across EU countries using a recent database of consolidation episodes built on the basis of a "narrative" approach (Devries et al., 2011). Results show that the impact of fiscal consolidation on cyclical...

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How unemployment insurance savings accounts affect employment duration: Evidence from Chile

Nagler, Paula - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2 (2013), pp. 1-25

investigate the effect of UISA on employment duration, this paper examines (i) whether the introduction of UISA affected … employment duration among formal private sector workers, and (ii) the magnitude of this effect. The analysis is performed on … leaving employment, or accelerated time to employment termination. The effect is larger for workers becoming unemployed or …

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Fiscal consolidation and unemployment: does EPL matter? A look at EU countries

Turrini, Alessandro - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 2 (2013), pp. 1-18

This paper estimates the impact of fiscal consolidation on unemployment and job market flows across EU countries using a recent database of consolidation episodes built on the basis of a 'narrative' approach (Devries et al., 2011). Results show that the impact of fiscal consolidation on cyclical...

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Programme evaluation of unemployment benefits in Japan: An average treatment effect approach

Ohkusa, Yasushi - 2003

Empirical results show that unemployment benefits (UB) recipients significantly change to worse job conditions with respect to wages and firm size, but change to better job conditions with respect to occupation, position, industry, and residence. While the effects for occupation are not...

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