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The financial crisis, labor market transitions and earnings: A gendered panel data analysis for Serbia

Blunch, Niels-Hugo; Sulla, Victor - 2011

(though, owing to the gender earnings gap, from a much lower base). Multinomial logit estimations of employment, unemployment … in terms of employment and earnings, though in different ways. Finally, the paper discusses policy implications and …

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Labor mobility in an enlarged European Union

Kahanec, Martin - 2012

The 2004 and 2007 enlargements of the EU extended the freedom of movement to workers from the twelve new member states mainly from Central Eastern Europe. This study summarizes and comparatively evaluates what we know about mobility in an enlarged Europe to date. The pre-enlargement fears of...

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Equilibrium unemployment and retirement

Hairault, Jean-Olivier; Langot, François; Zylberberg, Andre - 2012

As a preliminary step, we first provide some new empirical evidence that labor market conditions affect retirement decisions at the individual level: unemployed people are more likely to retire. Our main objective in this paper is then to propose an equilibrium unemployment approach to...

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Employment concentration and resource allocation: One-company towns in Russia

Commander, Simon; Nikoloski, Zlatko; Plekhanov, Alexander - 2011

The paper looks at the effects of employment concentration on resource allocation with a particular focus on one …-company towns in Russia defined as towns where a single company accounts for a significant share of total employment of the locality … the dominance of natural resources in the Russian economy and employment concentration is closely linked. …

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Southwest as the new internal migration destination in Turkey

Akarca, Ali T.; Tansel, Aysit - 2012

Antalya and Muğla provinces located in southwestern Turkey have emerged as the new magnets for internal migration in the country. Characteristics of immigration from other provinces to these two are described, and analyzed in the context of the gravity model. The factors that affect the...

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Do immigrants displace native workers? Evidence from matched panel data

Martins, Pedro S.; Piracha, Matloob; Varejão, José - 2012

Using matched employer-employee data, we analyse the impact of immigrants on natives' employment in Portugal. Using …

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The effects of California's paid family leave program on mothers' leave-taking and subsequent labor market outcomes

Rossin-Slater, Maya; Ruhm, Christopher J.; Waldfogel, Jane - 2011

This analysis uses March Current Population Survey data from 1999-2010 and a differences-in-differences approach to examine how California's first in the nation paid family leave (PFL) program affected leave-taking by mothers following childbirth, as well as subsequent labor market outcomes. We...

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Gender, economic development and Islam: A perspective from France

Adida, Claire L.; Laitin, David D.; Valfort, Marie-Anne - 2012

Muslims do less well on the French labor market than their non Muslim counterparts. One explanation for this relative failure can be characterized by the following syllogism: (1) the empowerment of women is a sine qua non for economic progress; (2) in-group norms among Muslims do not empower...

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Job insecurity and future labour market outcomes

McGuinness, Seamus; Wooden, Mark; Hahn, Markus - 2012

correlated with both voluntary separations and transitions to alternative employment. The desire to quit, however, does not … appear to diminish greatly across successive employment spells. …

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Lost in transition? Minimum wage effects on German construction workers

Bachmann, Ronald; König, Marion; Schaffner, Sandra - 2012

Using a linked employer-employee data set on the German construction industry, we analyse the effects of the introduction of minimum wages in this sector on labour market dynamics. In doing so, we focus on accessions and separations, as well as the underlying labour market flows, at the...

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