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Theory and Empirics of Short-Time Work: A Review

Bermudez, Natalia; Dejemeppe, Muriel; Tarullo, Giulia - 2023

Following massive take-up rates during the COVID-19 period, short-time work (STW) policies have attracted renewed interest. In this paper, we take stock of this policy instrument and provide a critical review of STW systems in Europe. We focus on the objectives of STW programs and their primary...

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Temporal Changes to the Added Worker Effect Associated with Spousal Job Loss

Connolly, Laura E.; Jolly, Nicholas A. - 2024

loss, particularly part-time working wives shifting to full-time employment. Finally, displaced husbands are increasingly …

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Young adult job loss and criminal activity

Jolly, Nicholas A.; Propp, Margaret H. - 2024

This paper uses data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to study the relationship between job displacement and the probability of arrest and incarceration among young adults. Results show that displacement is associated with increases in the probability of arrest and incarceration. The...

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Timed to Say Goodbye: Does Unemployment Benefit Eligibility Affect Worker Layoffs?

Albanese, Andrea; Ghirelli, Corinna; Picchio, Matteo - 2019

We study how unemployment benefit eligibility affects the layoff exit rate by exploiting quasi-experimental variation in eligibility rules in Italy. By using a difference-indifferences estimator, we find an instantaneous increase of about 12% in the layoff probability when unemployment benefit...

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Employment Protection and Firm-provided Training: Quasi-experimental Evidence from a Labour Market Reform

Bratti, Massimiliano; Conti, Maurizio; Sulis, Giovanni - 2019

potentially adverse effects of employment protection legislation (EPL) on training in dual labour markets due to larger firms …

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Unions and Collective Bargaining: The Influence on Wages, Employment and Firm Survival

Brändle, Tobias - 2024

Unions and collective bargaining play a central role in shaping wages and influencing firms' employment decisions and … employment. Unions typically increase wages and other working conditions for their members and often all employees working in … lower wage inequality. This result is more or less undisputed in the literature. The union effect on employment is …

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The Law of Proportionate Effect: A test based on the graphical model methodology

Guerzoni, Marco; Riso, Luigi; Vivarelli, Marco - 2023

Using both regression analysis and an unsupervised graphical model approach (never applied before to this issue), we confirm the rejection of the Gibrat's law when our firm-level data are considered over the entire investigated period, while the opposite is true when we allow for market...

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Losing Prospective Entitlement to Unemployment Benefits. Impact on Educational Attainment

Cockx, Bart; Declercq, Koen; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2022

Providing income support to unemployed education-leavers reduces the returns to investments in education because it makes the consequences of unemployment less severe. We evaluate a two-part policy reform in Belgium to study whether conditioning the prospective entitlement to unemployment...

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Intergenerational scars: The impact of parental unemployment on individual health later in life

Ubaldi, Michele; Picchio, Matteo - 2023

This paper studies whether individuals that experienced parental unemployment during their childhood/early adolescence have poorer health once they reach the adulthood. We used data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from 2002 until 2018. Our identification strategy of the causal effect of...

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Firm Closures and Labor Market Policies in Europe: Evidence from Retrospective Longitudinal Data

Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos; Voucharas, Georgios - 2023

We examine the impact of active and passive labor market policies expenditures on the probability of re-employment, re-employment … duration, unemployment duration, and re-employment wages in the case of job displacements due to firm closures. We use … contrast to passive labor market policies, investing in active labor market policies increases the re-employment probability …

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