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Recession and deflation?
Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - 2022
to maintain their real wages by reducing labor demand still further. Furthermore, we argue inflationary pressures have …
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"The double dividend of training" : labor market effects of work-related continuous education in Switzerland
Denzler, Stefan; Ruhose, Jens; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2022
This paper presents the first longitudinal estimates of the effect of work-related training on labor market outcomes in Switzerland. Using a novel dataset that links official census data on adult education to longitudinal register data on labor market outcomes, we apply a regression-adjusted...
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Wages and employment in the Netherlands, 2017-2023
Klinker, Iris; Weel, Bas ter - 2024
This research documents changes in employment and wages in the Netherlands for different types of workers. We compare … 2017 to 2023 using regression-adjusted wages to make sure changes in composition of the workforce do not influence our … slightly fallen. Wages have been rising for workers at the bottom of the wage distribution. From the median of the wage …
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How do labor markets affect crime? : new evidence on an old puzzle
Mustard, David B. - 2010
property crime. -- Crime ; labor markets ; unemployment ; wages …
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Canadian immigration experience : any lessons for Europe?
DeVoretz, Don J.; Laryea, Samuel A. - 1999
This paper reviews and analyzes the effects of Canada's post World War II immigration policies with the perspective of what European policy makers can learn from this experience. Impact of Immigration on natives' employment and earnings, as well as, immigrants' labor market experiences are...
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Wage flexibility and the Great Recession : the response of the Irish labour market
Doris, Aedín; O'Neill, Donal; Sweetman, Olive B. - 2013
There is considerable debate about the role of wage rigidity in explaining unemployment. Despite a large body of empirical work, no consensus has emerged on the extent of wage rigidity. Previous attempts to empirically examine wage rigidity have been hampered by small samples and measurement...
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Labor market careers before and after incarceration
Köllő, János; Czafit, Bence - 2014
initially negative effect on employment that turns positive after about one year while the impact on wages is permanently … that these results are driven by a drop in the reservation wages of 'converted' criminals rather than the lack of …
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Higher education expansion and labor market outcomes for young college graduates
Ou, Dongshu; Zhao, Zhong - 2016
We examine the causal impact of China's higher education expansion on labor market outcomes for young college graduates using China's 2005 1% Population Sample Survey. Exploiting variation in the expansion of university spots across provinces and high school cohorts and applying a...
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The unequal cost of job loss across countries
Bertheau, Antoine; Acabbi, Edoardo; Barceló, Cristina; … - 2022
We document the consequences of losing a job across countries using a harmonized research design. Workers in Denmark and Sweden experience the lowest earnings declines following job displacement, while workers in Italy, Spain, and Portugal experience losses three times as high. French and...
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Transparency of the welfare system and labor market outcomes of unemployed workers
Cairo, Sofie; Mahlstedt, Robert - 2021
We study how the transparency of welfare systems affects labor market outcomes of unemployed workers in a large-scale field experiment. Our low-cost information intervention uses a personalized online tool that informs benefit recipients about their personal risk of a benefit reduction when not...
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