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Immigration and Heterogeneous Labour in Western Germany: A Labour Market Classification Based on Nonparametric Estimation

Fröhlich, Markus; Puhani, Patrick A - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

This Paper presents a methodology to identify net demand shocks as well as wage rigidities in heterogeneous labour markets on the basis of nonparametric regression. We show how this approach can be used to make suggestions for immigration policy in economies with labour market rigidities. In an...

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Structural Estimation of Search Intensity: Do Non-Employed Workers Search Enough?

Gautier, Pieter A; Moraga-González, José-Luis; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

We present a structural framework for the evaluation of public policies intended to increase job search intensity. Most of the literature defines search intensity as a scalar that influences the arrival rate of job offers; here we treat it as the number of job applications that workers send out....

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Wage Rigidities in Western Germany: Microeconometric Evidence from the 1990s

Puhani, Patrick A - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

justified the relative stability of educational wage premia. Relative wages did not, however, respond to negative net demand …

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On the Identification of Relative Wage Rigidity Dynamics: A Proposal for a Methodology on Cross-Section Data and Empirical Evidence for Poland in Transition

Puhani, Patrick A - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

We present a new and simple empirical methodology to identify relative wage rigidity dynamics. The methodology is applied to data from the Polish Labour Force Survey for the period 1994 to 1998. We estimate ceteris paribus changes in relative wage and unemployment differentials for various...

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New Technologies, Wages and Worker Selection

Entorf, Horst; Gollac, Michel; Kramarz, Francis - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

We study the impact of new technologies (NT) on wages and employment using a unique panel that matches data on …

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Can Insider Power Affect Employment?

Diaz-Vazquez, Pilar; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

Do firms reduce employment when their insiders (established, incumbent employees) claim higher wages? The conventional … employees (entrants) receive their reservation wages. The reason given is that an increase in insider wages gives rise to a … counterveiling fall in reservation wages, leaving the present value of wage costs unchanged. Our analysis contradicts this …

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The Aggregate Labour Market Effects of the Swedish Knowledge Lift Program

Albrecht, James; den Berg, Gerard J van; Vroman, Susan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

The Swedish adult education program known as the Knowledge Lift (1997--2002) was unprecedented in its size and scope, aiming to raise the skill level of large numbers of low-skill workers. This paper evaluates the potential effects of this program on aggregate labour market outcomes. This is...

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Measuring the Equilibrium Effects of Unemployment Benefits Dispersion

Ridder, G; den Berg, Gerard J van; van Vuuren, Aico - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

We analyse the impact of unemployment benefits and minimum wages using an equilibrium search model, which allows for … estimation method uses readily available aggregate data on marginal distributions of unemployment durations as well as wages and …

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The Impact Of Active Labour Market Policies And Benefit Entitlement Rules On The Duration Of Unemployment

Lalive, Rafael; Ours, Jan C van; Zweimüller, Josef - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

We evaluate the effect of active labour market programs on the duration of unemployment in a reward or punish system. In Switzerland, unemployment benefits are conditional upon program attendance after 7 months of unemployment duration. In the evaluation we allow for selectivity affecting the...

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Swedish Labour Market Training and the Duration of Unemployment

Richardson, Katarina; den Berg, Gerard J van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

The vocational employment training program is the most ambitious and expensive training program in Sweden and a cornerstone of labor market policy. We analyze its causal effects on the individual transition rate from unemployment to employment by exploiting variation in the timing of treatment...

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