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with different equilibria descriptive of the labor markets in Spain and France, where the unemployment rates went from the … unemployment rate in Spain has jumped to much higher levels while switching between equilibria or, what is the same, because of …
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biographies, we estimate the model and decompose welfare costs. We find that unemployment is a small factor: Higher wages and job …
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' careers if this decline is particularly severe in their local labor market? This paper uses administrative data from Germany …
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This paper examines whether immigrants increase the likelihood of unemployment among native-born workers in the …-born workers' assessment of the number of immigrants in the local market. By doing so, the association between unemployment of … immigrants and unemployment among native-born workers. …
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individual data from the European Community Household Panel, for France, Germany, and the UK. The empirical analysis is based on … France and Germany. The results indicate that in these two countries, which provide more generous benefits relative to the UK …"This paper studies the effect of unemployment benefits on the unemployment and subsequent employment duration using …
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This paper seeks to document and analyse changes in the distribution of wages and employment in the transition countries since the collapse of communism. Most countries experienced an increase in wage inequality during the initial shock of the transition. Proximate causes of this increase seem...
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We investigate the consequences of structural change for workers displaced from the manufacturing sector. Manufacturing establishments traditionally employed low- and high-wage workers in similar proportions and paid substantial wage premiums to both types of workers. Structural change has led...
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We analyze short and long-term effects of worker displacement. Our focus is on prime-age male workers displaced from Norwegian manufacturing plants. We find that displacement increases the probability of exiting the labor force by about 5 percentage points. This indicates that studies using data...
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the fragility of low-seniority jobs implies that layoff costs reduce the average job duration and increase unemployment …
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Short-time work programs were revived by the Great Recession. To understand their operating mechanisms, we first provide a model showing that short-time work may save jobs in firms hit by strong negative revenue shocks, but not in less severely-hit firms, where hours worked are reduced, without...
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