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Effects of Active Labor Market Programs on the Transition Rate from Unemployment into Regular Jobs in the Slovak Republic

Lubyova, Martina; Ours, Jan C. van - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 1998

The system of active labor market policies (ALMP) in the Slovak Republic consists to a large extent of the creation of socially purposeful and publicly useful jobs and of retraining of unemployed workers. So far, the effects of these types of active labor market policies have hardly been...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005652541

Labor Market Policies and Unemployment in the Czech Republic

Terrell, Katherine; Sorm, Vit - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 1998

We analyze the impact of the active labor market policies (ALMPS) and the unemployment compensation system (UCS) on unemployment duration's of different groups in the Czech population by estimating hazard functions with new macroeconomic data. We conclude these programs were effective in...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005652592

So Many Rocket Scientists, So Few Marketing Clerks: Occupational Mobility in Times of Rapid Technological Change

Campos, Nauro F.; Dabušinskas, Aurelijus - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2003

The transition from centrally planned to market economy involves a process of massive occupational change that has been largely neglected in the literature. This paper investigates this process using data from the 1995 Estonian Labour Force Survey. We find that between 35 and 50 percent of wage...

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The Supply Side of Innovation: H-1B Visa Reforms and US Ethnic Invention

Kerr, William; Lincoln, William - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2010

This study evaluates the impact of high-skilled immigrants on US technology formation. We use reduced-form specifications that exploit large changes in the H-1B visa program. Higher H-1B admissions increase immigrant science and engineering (SE) employment and patenting by inventors with Indian...

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Voice of the Diaspora: An Analysis of Migrant Voting Behavior

Fidrmuc, Jan; Doyle, Orla - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2004

. These results are interpreted as indicating that migrants’ political preferences change in the wake of migration as they …

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Migration and Regional Adjustment and Asymmetric Shocks in Transition Economies

Fidrmuc, Jan - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2002

Does migration facilitate regional adjustment to idiosyncratic shocks? The evidence from post-communist economies … indicates that the efficacy of migration in reducing inter-regional unemployment and wage differentials has in fact been rather … low. High wages appear to encourage, and, similarly, high unemployment tends to discourage, overall migration - inbound …

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Labor Mobility during Transition: Evidence from the Czech Republic

Fidrmuc, Jan - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2005

central planning to a market economy. I show that the intensity of migration is low and even has fallen during the transition … facilitating labormarket adjustment to employment shocks. Using aggregate inter-regional migration data and survey data on past and … prospective migration and the willingness to move. I find that economic factor play little role in explaining migration patterns …

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International Coercion, Emulation and Policy Diffusion: Market-Oriented Infrastructure Reforms, 1977-1999

Henisz, Witold J.; Zelner, Bennet A.; Guillen, Mauro F. - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2004

Why do some countries adopt market-oriented reforms such as deregulation, privatization and liberalization of competition in their infrastructure industries while others do not? Why did the pace of adoption accelerate in the 1990s? Building on neo-institutional theory in sociology, we argue that...

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The Locking-in Effect of Subsidized Jobs

Ours, Jan C. van - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2002

Recent evaluations of active lab or market policies are not very optimistic about their effectiveness to bring unemployed back to work. An important reason is that unemployed get locked-in, that is they reduce their effort to find a regular job. This paper uses an administrative dataset from the...

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A Comparitive Look at Labor Mobility in the Czech Republic: Where Have all the Workers Gone?

Storm, Vit; Terrell, Katherine - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 1999

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005489898

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