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How Working Time Reduction Affects Employment and Earnings

Raposo, Pedro; Ours, Jan C. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

December 1, 1996 Portugal introduced a new law on working hours which gradually reduced the standard workweek from 44 hours to 40 hours. We study how this mandatory working hours reduction affected employment and earnings of workers involved. We find for workers who were affected by the new law...

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Why Do Worker-Firm Matches Dissolve?

Gielen, Anne C.; Ours, Jan C. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

In a dynamic labor market worker-firm matches dissolve frequently causing workers to separate and firms to look for replacements. A separation may be initiated by the worker (a quit) or the firm (a layoff), or may result from a joint decision. A dissolution of a worker-firm match may be...

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Age-Specific Cyclical Effects in Job Reallocation and Labor Mobility

Gielen, Anne C.; Ours, Jan C. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

We present an empirical analysis of job reallocation and labor mobility using matched workerfirm data for the Netherlands to investigate how firms adjust their workforce over the cycle. Our data cover the period 1993-2002. We find that cyclical adjustments of the workforce occur mainly through...

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The Effect of Shocks to Labour Market Flows on Unemployment and Participation Rates

Dixon, Robert; Lim, Guay C.; Ours, Jan C. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper presents an analysis of labour market dynamics, in particular of flows in the labour market and how they interact and affect the evolution of unemployment rates and participation rates, the two main indicators of labour market performance. Our analysis has two special features. First,...

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Does the Recent Success of Some OECD Countries in Lowering their Unemployment Rates Lie in the Clever Design of their Labour Market Reform?

Belot, Michèle; Ours, Jan C. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

The development of the unemployment rate differs substantially between OECD countries. In recent years some countries experienced a mild increase, other countries had a stable unemployment rate, while there are also ‘successful’ countries in which the unemployment rate decreased a lot. A...

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Optimal Unemployment Insurance with Monitoring and Sanctions

Boone, Jan; Fredriksson, Peter; Holmlund, Bertil; Ours, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

This paper analyzes the design of optimal unemployment insurance in a search equilibrium framework where search effort … among the unemployed is not perfectly observable. We examine to what extent the optimal policy involves monitoring of search … effort and benefit sanctions if observed search is deemed insufficient. We find that introducing monitoring and sanctions …

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