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Unravelling trade integration : local labour market effects of the Brexit vote

Javorcik, Beata K. Smarzynska; Kett, Ben; Stapleton, … - 2019

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"Soft" affirmative action and minority recruitment

Fershtman, Daniel; Pavan, Alessandro - 2020

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Labor Market Policies and European Crises

Bertola, Giuseppe - 2013

This paper studies theoretically and empirically why and how labor policies may reduce productivity and employment in order to stabilize labor incomes and redistribute resources. It proposes a specific stylized model where the tradeoffs facing labor policies are influenced by structural factors,...

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Subsidies for Wages and Infrastructure : How to Restrain Undesired Immigration

Meier, Volker - 2006

This paper investigates regional or international transfers as a means to prevent immigration into unemployment. We analyze a two-country model with free migration in which the rich country is characterized by minimum wage unemployment. Matching grants for investment in infrastructure are...

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Youth Unemployment in Europe : Persistence and Macroeconomic Determinants

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2014

This paper investigates the statistical features and the macroeconomic determinants of youth unemployment in a number of European countries. First, it explores its short and long memory properties by estimating both autoregressive and fractional integration models. This type of analysis sheds...

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Do Employers Discriminate Less if Vacancies are Difficult to Fill? Evidence from a Field Experiment

Baert, Stijn - 2013

We empirically test the relationship between hiring discrimination and labour market tightness at the level of the occupation. To this end, we conduct a correspondence test in the youth labour market. In line with theoretical expectations, we find that, compared to natives, candidates with a...

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Wages and Recruitment : Evidence from External Wage Changes

Falch, Torberg - 2013

This paper estimates the causal effect of the wage on the recruitment rate at the establishment level. During the 1990s … schools with severe recruitment problems in the past and located in one specific region. The empirical approach exploits … for teachers. In a difference-in-differences framework, I find that the wage premium increased the recruitment rate by 6 …

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Disaggregating the Matching Function

Diamond, Peter A. - 2017

The aggregate matching (hiring) function relates gross hires to labor market tightness. Decompositions of aggregate hires show how the hiring process differs across different groups of workers and of firms. Decompositions include employment status in the previous month, age, gender and...

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A Competitive Model of Worker Replacement and Wage Rigidity

Snell, Andy - 2014

We adapt the models of Menzio and Moen (2010) and Snell and Thomas (2010) to consider a labour market in which firms can commit to wage contracts but cannot commit not to replace incumbent workers. Workers are risk averse, so that there exists an incentive for firms to smooth wages. Real wages...

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Revisiting the Matching Function

Kohlbrecher, Britta - 2016

There is strong empirical evidence for Cobb-Douglas matching functions. We show in this paper that this widely found relation between matches on the one hand and unemployment and vacancies on the other hand can be the result of different underlying mechanisms. Obviously, it can be generated by...

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