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The Role of Works Councils for Severance Payments

Grund, Christian; Martin, Johannes - 2017

Using representative German employee data, we analyse the role of works councils for the incidence of severance payments subsequent to dismissals. While there is a positive relation with severance payments after those dismissals which stem from plant closings, the incidence of a works council is...

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The role of works councils for severance payments

Grund, Christian; Martin, Johannes - 2017

layoffs. In both cases, we find a negative moderating effect of individuals' higher re-employment chances. We also explore …

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Did the crisis permanently scar the Portuguese labour market? Evidence from a Markov-switching Beveridge curve analysis

Vansteenkiste, Isabel - 2017

structural factors, namely, the relatively high level of employment protection together with the relatively high minimum wage …

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Unemployment insurance and the labor market

Zweimüller, Josef - 2018

The existing literature assumes that unemployment insurance (UI) affects the labor market through the job finding rate of eligible workers. I argue that this focus is too narrow. I show evidence for UI effects through three other margins: (i) search externalities; (ii) takeup of other welfare...

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Timed to Say Goodbye: Does Unemployment Benefit Eligibility Affect Worker Layoffs?

Albanese, Andrea; Ghirelli, Corinna; Picchio, Matteo - 2019

We study how unemployment benefit eligibility affects the layoff exit rate by exploiting quasi-experimental variation in eligibility rules in Italy. By using a difference-indifferences estimator, we find an instantaneous increase of about 12% in the layoff probability when unemployment benefit...

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Effectiveness of a job vacancy referral scheme

Bollens, Joost; Cockx, Bart - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 6 (2017) 15, pp. 1-24

The public employment service (PES) makes use in many countries of vacancy referrals as to facilitate the matching … study evaluates whether this policy instrument enhanced the transition to employment in Flanders (region in northern Belgium …, respectively, double the transition rate to employment both in short- and long-run, while the automatic referrals enhance this rate …

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Labour market effects of job displacement for prime-age and older workers

Deelen, Anja; de Graaf-Zijl, Marloes; van den Berge, Wiljan - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 7 (2018) 3, pp. 1-30

This paper studies the effects of firm closures associated with bankruptcies on the employment status and wages of …

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Marginal jobs and job surplus: A test of the efficiency of separations

Jäger, Simon; Schoefer, Benjamin; Zweimüller, Josef - 2018

We present a sharp test for the efficiency of job separations. First, we document a dramatic increase in the separation rate - 11.2ppt (28%) over five years - in response to a quasi-experimental extension of UI benefit duration for older workers. Second, after the abolition of the policy, the...

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Are the Spanish long-term unemployed unemployable?

Bentolila, Samuel; García-Pérez, J. Ignacio; Jansen, … - In: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 8 (2017) 1, pp. 1-41

large share of temporary contracts, but once we restrict attention to employment spells lasting at least 1 month these …

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Marginal Jobs and Job Surplus: A Test of the Efficiency of Separations

Jäger, Simon; Schoefer, Benjamin; Zweimüller, Josef - 2019

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