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The Heterogeneity and Cyclical Sensitivity of Unemployment : An Exploration of German Labor Market Flows

Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2008

individual-level data for West Germany for the period 1983 to 1994, this paper explores both the demographic heterogeneity of … German unemployment in the long term, and the cyclical sensitivity of the unemployment experience across demographic groups …. The analysis moves beyond that of unemployment rates to a detailed investigation of transition rates from employment to …

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Labor Market Effects of Immigration : Evidence from Neighborhood Data

Bauer, Thomas K. - 2011

postcode-level data from administrative records to analyze the effects of immigration on wages and unemployment probabilities …

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Marginal Employment, Unemployment Duration and Job Match Quality

Caliendo, Marco - 2012

In some countries including Germany unemployed workers can increase their income during job search by taking up … incentives due to higher net earnings. Additional earnings during unemployment might lead to higher reservation wages prolonging … the duration of unemployment, yet also giving unemployed individuals more time to search for better and more stable jobs …

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Benefit Duration, Unemployment Duration and Job Match Quality : A Regression-Discontinuity Approach

Caliendo, Marco - 2010

unemployment benefits in Germany, which increases from 12 months to 18 months at the age of 45, to identify the effect of extended …The generosity of the Unemployment Insurance system (UI) plays a central role for the job search behavior of unemployed … entitlement, has a negative impact on the job search activities of the unemployed increasing their unemployment duration. Despite …

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Does Less Wage Compression Lead to Less Training in Germany? An Expansion of Acemoglu and Pischke's Model of Training in Imperfect Labor Markets

Neubäumer, Renate - 2016

We expand Acemoglu and Pischke's seminal model of training in imperfect labor markets by including the system of collective wage bargaining and the components of firms' training costs. Thus we can adapt their model to institutional changes that occurred since the 1990s. The model and the...

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Employment Subsidies and Substitutable Skills : An Equilibrium Matching Approach

Van der Linden, Bruno; Cardullo, Gabriele - 2006

on their interactions with the profile of unemployment benefits and with active labor market programs …

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Taxes and Market Hours : The Role of Gender and Skill

Duval-Hernández, Robert - 2017

Cross-country differences of market hours in 17 OECD countries are mainly due to the hours of women, especially low-skilled women. This paper develops a model to account for the gender-skill differences in market hours across countries. The model explains a substantial fraction of the...

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Inequality and Specialization : The Growth of Low-Skill Service Jobs in the United States

Autor, David H. - 2015

After a decade in which wages and employment fell precipitously in low-skill occupations and expanded in high-skill occupations, the shape of U.S. earnings and job growth sharply polarized in the 1990s. Employment shares and relative earnings rose in both low and high-skill jobs, leading to a...

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The Impact of Low-Skill Refugees on Youth Education

Tumen, Semih - 2018

This paper examines the impact of Syrian refugees on high school enrollment rates of native youth in Turkey. Syrian refugees are, on average, less skilled and more willing to work in low-pay informal jobs than Turkish natives. Refugees can influence native youth's school enrollment likelihood...

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How Do Low-Skilled Immigrants Adjust to Chinese Import Shocks? Evidence Using English Language Proficiency

Furtado, Delia; Kong, Haiyang - 2021

This paper examines the link between trade-induced changes in local labor market opportunities and English language fluency rates among low-skilled immigrants in the United States. Many of the production-based manufacturing jobs lost in recent years due to Chinese import competition did not...

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