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Heterogeneous Layoff Effects of the Us Short-Time Compensation Program

Tracey, Marlon R. - 2018

The Short-Time Compensation (STC) program enables US firms to reduce work hours via pro-rated Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefits, rather than relying on layoffs as a cost-cutting tool. Despite the program's potential to preclude skill loss and rehiring/ retraining costs, firms' participation...

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Counteracting Unemployment in Crises : Non-Linear Effects of Short-Time Work Policy

Gehrke, Britta - 2018

Short-time work is a labor market policy that subsidizes working time reductions among firms in financial difficulty to prevent layoffs. Many OECD countries have used this policy in the Great Recession. This paper shows that the effects of short-time work are strongly time dependent and...

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Unemployment or Overeducation : Which is a Worse Signal to Employers?

Baert, Stijn - 2014

This study aims at estimating the stigma effect of unemployment and overeducation within one framework. To this end, we conduct a field experiment in the Belgian labour market. We send out trios of fictitious male job applications to real vacancies. These applications differ only by the labour...

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Unemployment Insurance and Underemployment

Godøy, Anna - 2014

Should unemployment insurance (UI) systems provide coverage for underemployed job seekers? Based on a statistical analysis of Norwegian unemployment spells, we conclude that the answer to this question is yes. Allowing insured job seekers to retain partial UI benefits during periods of...

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Part-Time Unemployment and Optimal Unemployment Insurance

Ek, Susanne - 2011

A significant fraction of the labor force consists of employed workers who are part-time unemployed (underemployed) in the sense that they are unable to work as much as they prefer. This paper develops a search and matching model to study the design of optimal unemployment insurance in an...

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Has the Economic Crisis Worsened the Work-Related Stress and Mental Health of Temporary Workers in Spain?

Bartoll, Xavier - 2018

This paper analyses the causal effects of temporary employment on work-related stress and mental health before (2006 …-related stress in the pre-crisis period, but not for women. The stratification analysis shows lower work-related stress levels among … crisis is responsible for increasing stress only among older temporary workers and male university graduates, without …

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Wage Effects of Educational Mismatch According to Workers' Origin : The Role of Demographics and Firm Characteristics

Jacobs, Valentine; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2022

This paper examines the influence of educational mismatch on wages according to workers' region of birth, taking advantage of our access to rich matched employer-employee data for the Belgian private sector for the period 1999-2010. Using a fine-grained approach to measuring educational mismatch...

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Inefficient Short-Time Work

Cahuc, Pierre - 2017

This paper shows that the reforms which expanded short-time work in France after the great 2008-2009 recession were largely to the benefit of large firms which are recurrent short-time work users. We argue that this expansion of short-time work is an inefficient way to provide insurance to...

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Educational Mismatch and Firm Productivity : Do Skills, Technology and Uncertainty Matter?

Mahy, Benoit - 2015

The authors provide first evidence on whether the direct relationship between educational mismatch and firm productivity varies across working environments. Using detailed Belgian linked employer-employee panel data for 1999-2010, they find the existence of a significant, positive (negative)...

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Determinants of Regional Differences in Rates of Overeducation in Europe

Davia Rodríguez, Maria Ángeles - 2016

This paper examines the factors determining variations in spatial rates of overeducation. A quantile regression model has been implemented on a sample of region-yearly data drawn from the EU Survey on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) and several institutional and macroeconomic features...

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