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Worker Representation and Temporary Employment in Germany : The Deployment and Extent of Fixed-Term Contracts and Temporary Agency Work

Addison, John T. - 2018

This study examines the potential impact of works councils and unions on the deployment of fixed-term contracts and agency temps. We report inter al. that works councils are associated with a higher number of temporary agency workers when demand volatility is high while the opposite holds for...

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Recessions and Occupational Match Quality : The Role of Age, Gender, and Education

Addison, John T. - 2020

Although the adverse labor market effects of economic recessions have been well documented, a notable omission in the literature is how recessions impact workers' job match quality. This paper considers the short and longer-term losses in productivity associated with the job changing brought in...

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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. - 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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Collective Bargaining Systems and Macroeconomic and Microeconomic Flexibility : The Quest for Appropriate Institutional Forms in Advanced Economies

Addison, John T. - 2021

institutions; on the basis of which, and recent theoretical developments, specific support is adduced for the German, contemporary …

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How Do Different Entitlements to Unemployment Benefits Affect the Transitions from Unemployment into Employment?

Addison, John T. - 2008

In Portugal duration of benefits is exclusively age determined while replacement rates are to all intents and purposes uniform. We exploit differences in potential maximum duration of benefits for nearly matched pairs of individuals who differ in age by one year and in potential maximum duration...

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

Addison, John T. - 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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The Reservation Wage Unemployment Duration Nexus

Addison, John T. - 2010

involves conditioning elapsed duration on completed unemployment duration in the reservation wage equation. Our analysis … duration coefficient suggests that higher reservation wages negatively influence the probability of exiting unemployment …

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Do Reservation Wages Really Decline? Some International Evidence on the Determinants of Reservation Wages

Addison, John T.; Centeno, Mário; Portugal, Pedro - 2021

. Higher unemployment benefits lead to higher reservation wages. Further, again consistent with the basic search model …

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Does Atypical Work Help the Jobless? Evidence from a Caeas/Cps Cohort Analysis

Addison, John T.; Surfield, Christopher J. - 2021

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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