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Explaining the spread of temporary jobs and its impact on labor turnover
Cahuc, Pierre; Charlot, Olivier; Malherbet, Franck - 2012
This paper provides a simple model which explains the choice between permanent and temporary jobs. This model, which incorporates important features of actual employment protection legislations neglected by the economic literature so far, reproduces the main stylized facts about entries into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009531343
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Explaining the Spread of Temporary Jobs and its Impact on Labor Turnover
Cahuc, Pierre - 2012
This paper provides a simple model which explains the choice between permanent and temporary jobs. This model, which incorporates important features of actual employment protection legislations neglected by the economic literature so far, reproduces the main stylized facts about entries into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013110183
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Interpreting Europe and Us Labor Markets Differences : The Specificity of Human Capital Investments
Wasmer, Etienne - 2021
while considered as extremely large in the public debate in Europe. The main argument is based on a fundamental property of …. Two sets of implications are then derived: on one hand, mobility costs are high in Europe and turbulence has especially … strong adverse effects. Jobs endogenously last longer in Europe than in the US, but when they are destroyed, the welfare loss …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320448
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Explaining Youth Labor Market Problems in Spain: Crowding-Out, Institutions, or Technology Shifts?
Jimeno, Juan F.; Felgueroso, Florentino; Dolado, Juan José - 2000
This paper examines the empirical evidence regarding the poor performance of the youth labor market in Spain over the …-education, and low intensity of on-the-job training. It also presents a simple matching model with two types of workers (?educated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273747
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Labour market dynamics in Germany : hirings, separations, and job-to-job transitions over the business cycle
Bachmann, Ronald (contributor) - 2005
In this paper, we provide a comprehensive overview of labour market dynamics in Western Ger- many by looking at gross worker flows. To do so, we use a subsample of the registry data collected by the German social security system, the IAB employment sample, for the time period 1975-2001. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003323028
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Business cycle asymmetries and the labor market
Kohlbrecher, Britta; Merkl, Christian - 2016 - First version: April 2015. This version: February 2016
This paper shows that the matching function and the Beveridge curve in the United States exhibit strong nonlinearities … over the business cycle. These patterns can be replicated by enhancing a search and matching model with idiosyncratic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011444082
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Business cycle asymmetries and the labor market
Kohlbrecher, Britta; Merkl, Christian - 2016
This paper shows that the matching function and the Beveridge curve in the United States exhibit strong nonlinearities … over the business cycle. These patterns can be replicated by enhancing a search and matching model with idiosyncratic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011455340
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Labor market polarization over the business cycle
Foote, Christopher L.; Ryan, Richard W. - 2014 - This version: December 26, 2014
One of the most important long-run trends in the U.S. labor market is polarization, defined as the relative growth of employment in high-skill jobs (such as management and technical positions) and low-skill jobs (such as food-service and janitorial work) amid the concurrent decline in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010493670
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Business cycle asymmetries and the labor market
Kohlbrecher, Britta; Merkl, Christian - 2016 - This Version: February 2016
This paper shows that the matching function and the Beveridge curve in the United States exhibit strong nonlinearities … over the business cycle. These patterns can be replicated by enhancing a search and matching model with idiosyncratic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011447126
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The Cyclical Volatility of Labor Markets under Frictional Financial Markets
Petrosky-Nadeau, Nicolas - 2012
increasing the elasticity of labor market tightness to productivity shocks by a factor of 5 to 8, compared to a matching economy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013116384