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Individual unemployment spells are frequently interrupted by short casual employment, by participation in active labour … market policy (ALMP) measures or by periods outside the labour force. Such episodes end unemployment spells but afterwards … problem of being without a "real" job in the longer run. To better grasp this problem of repeated unemployment we analyse …
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From 1992 to 2005, part-time employment in Western Germany has grown by 82 percent, whereas full-time employment has shrunk by 14 percent. Behind these general figures there is substantial variation of employment schemes across industries. Beside this, the share of the service industries in...
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measuring the additional time spent in unemployment before being hired in a new occupation. Furthermore, I inspect the wage … changes after reallocation and find that workers who change occupations through unemployment face wage losses. Interpreted …
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suggest that regional mismatch did not play an important role in explaining movements of aggregate unemployment. Across … industries and occupations, there was a decrease in mismatch unemployment from over 5 percent to below 4 percent (on the highest … disaggregation level), whereas the share of mismatch unemployment (across industries and occupations) within total unemployment …
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this episode assume that a worker leaving unemployment moves into full employment. We ask where the unemployed actually … went. Using and merging two large micro data sets, we account for the decrease of unemployment by computing inflows and … outflows between unemployment and 16 other labour market states. Direct flows between unemployment and full employment …
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This study investigates the incidence of overeducation among workers in the EU and its underlying factors based on the most recent wave of the European Labor Force Survey (EU-LFS 2013). Its main purpose is to shed light on the interplay of so far neglected explanatory factors such as household...
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in German unemployment is fully explained by hysteresis. The Great Recession was well absorbed because both hysteresis … effects and structural unemployment were substantially reduced after institutional reforms. In contrast, U.S. unemployment did …
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reduced the generosity of long-term unemployment benefits. We use a model with different unemployment durations, where the … the existing disagreement in the macroeconomic literature on the unemployment effects of Hartz IV. We find that Hartz IV … was a major driver for the decline of Germany's unemployment and that partial and equilibrium effect where of equal …
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for 19 OECD countries on unemployment, FDI, and labor market institutions. Results support the model in that net-FDI is … robustly associated with lower rates of aggregate unemployment. -- FDI ; search unemployment ; labor market institutions … global financial markets enables capital owners to invest abroad, thereby fostering unemployment at the extensive industry …
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This paper shows the evolution of mismatch unemployment over the period from 2007 to 2022 in Germany. A substantial … part of mismatch unemployment results from a misallocation on the qualification level rather than on the occupational level …. Taking the qualification level into account, an upward trend in mismatch unemployment in the aftermath of the COVID …
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