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The impact of Arab Spring on hiring and separation rates in the Tunisian labour market

Haouas, Ilham; Heshmati, Almas - 2015

This paper analyses the hiring and separation rates in Tunisia before and after the Arab Spring of 2011. Several models are specified to study employment decisions based on quarterly administrative firm level data over the period of 2007 to 2012. The data provides information about important...

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The Impact of Arab Spring on Hiring and Separation Rates in the Tunisian Labour Market

Haouas, Ilham - 2015

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Wage bargaining and turnover costs with heterogeneous labour : the no-screening case

Strand, Jon - 1998

We study the effects of mobility costs in a model of wage bargaining between workers and firms, where there is instantaneous matching, free firm entry, heterogeneous labour, and workers' individual productivities are discovered by firms only after being hired. We derive the employment level and...

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Do initial conditions persist between firms? : an analysis of firm-entry cohort effects and job losers using matched employer-employee data

Wachter, Till von; Bender, Stefan - 2007

Einflussreiche Studien gehen davon aus, dass sich die Bedingungen beim Berufseinstieg langfristig auf den Berufsverlauf von Arbeitskräften im Betrieb auswirken. Obwohl es unter Wirtschaftswissenschaftlern seit langem umstritten ist, ob die anhaltenden Lohnunterschiede zwischen Betrieben und...

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Labour Flows in Belgium

Heuse, Pierrette - 2010

The paper describes job flows in Belgium using micro data at the firm level collected through the annual social balance sheets that companies have to file with the National Bank of Belgium. The coverage of the study is very broad: all industries and commercial services are included. We...

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Labour flows in Belgium

Heuse, Pierrette; Saks, Yves - 2009

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Who's hit hardest? : the persistence of the employment shock by the COVID-19 crisis

Han, Joseph - In: KDI-journal of economic policy 43 (2021) 2, pp. 23-51

The persistence of the employment shock by COVID-19 has various policy implications during the pandemic and beyond it … results show that while face-to-face services were undoubtedly hit hard by the COVID-19 crisis, the sectoral shock was less … suggest that targeted measures to mitigate the persistent effects of the employment shock should take priority during the …

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Gender gaps from labor market shocks

Ivandic, Ria; Lassen, Anne Sophie - 2023

Job loss leads to persistent adverse labor market outcomes, but assessments of gender differences in labor market recovery are lacking. We utilize plant closures in Denmark to estimate gender gaps in labor market outcomes and document that women face an increased risk of unemployment and lose a...

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Hiring and firing costs, adverse selection and long-term unemployment

Kugler, Adriana D.; Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2000

In this paper, we present a matching model with adverse selection that explains why flows into and out of unemployment are much lower in Europe compared to North America, while employment-to-employment flows are similar in the two continents. In the model, firms use discretion in terms of whom...

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Hiring and Firing Costs, Adverse Selection, and Long-Term Unemployment

Kugler, Adriana D.; Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2000

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