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Addison, John T.; Surfield, Christopher J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Atypical employment arrangements such as agency temporary work and contracting have long been criticized as offering more precarious and unstable work than regular employment. Using data from two datasets – the CAEAS and the NLSY79 – we determine whether workers who take such jobs rather...

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Does Atypical Work Help the Jobless? Evidence from a CAEAS/CPS Cohort Analysis

Addison, John T.; Surfield, Christopher J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

Atypical employment, such as temporary, on-call, and contract work, has been found disproportionately to attract the jobless. But there is no consensus in the literature as to the labour market consequences of such job choice by unemployed individuals. Using data from the Current Population...

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The Use of Alternative Work Arrangements by the Jobless: Evidence from the CAEAS/CPS

Addison, John T.; Surfield, Christopher J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

. When we evaluate the use of AWAs against unemployment, there is also evidence that the jobless are entering AWAs as …

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What Have We Learned About the Employment Effects of Severance Pay? Further Iterations of Lazear et al.

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

-varying labor market institutions. While the positive effect of severance pay on unemployment garners some support, there is no real …In this study we examine the contribution of severance pay to employment and unemployment development using data on … collective bargaining coordination, the role of institutions is also more muted than suggested in the literature. …

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The Economics of Employment Protection

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

mainly on dismissals protection, distinguishing between the themes of employment and unemployment development and labor … market dynamics proper. Our discussion of employment and unemployment largely deals with the effect of employment protection …

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Does the Quality of Industrial Relations Matter for the Macro Economy? A Cross-Country Analysis Using Strikes Data

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

indicator – and our macro performance outcome is the unemployment rate. Independent of the role of other institutions, good … industrial relations do seem to matter: greater strike volume is associated with higher unemployment. Holding country effects …

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Minimum Wages, Labor Market Institutions, and Female Employment and Unemployment: A Cross-Country Analysis

Addison, John T.; Ozturk, Orgul Demet - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

of time-varying policy and institutional regressors. Yet another is our examination of unemployment and participation … lower participation, even if the unemployment effects are muted. Although we report some similar findings to Neumark and … Wascher as to the role of labor market institutions and policies, we do not observe the same patterns in the institutional …

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