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The labour market impacts of leaving education when unemployment is high : evidence from Britain

Taylor, Mark P. - 2013

We estimate the effects of initial labour market entry conditions on a range of subsequent job outcomes for men and women who entered the British labour market between 1991 and 2009, using data from the British Household Panel Survey and its successor Understanding Society. We find that the...

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Minimally altruistic wages and unemployment in a matching model

Rotemberg, Julio (contributor) - 2007

This paper presents a model in which firms recruit both unemployed and employed workers by posting vacancies. Firms act monopsonistically and set wages to retain their existing workers as well as to attract new ones. The model differs from Burdett and Mortensen (1998) in that its assumptions...

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How do workers react to increased job loss fears? : the role of training and job mobility

Bachmann, Ronald; Klauser, Roman - 2024

determinants, fears, and workers’ reactions. We focus on two potential reactions, training and job mobility, and three potential … occupational mobility, but not to higher training participation. Higher import exposure is associated with higher fears, whereas …

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How elastic is labor demand? : a meta-analysis for the German labor market

Popp, Martin - In: Journal for labour market research 57 (2023) 1, pp. 1-21

The own-wage elasticity of labor demand measures the effect of higher wages on firms’ demand for labor and, thus, determines the impact of supply shocks, minimum wages, and collective wage agreements on the labor market. I carry out a comprehensive meta-analysis to shed light on the nature of...

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Asymmetric wage adjustment and employment in European firms

Marotzke, Petra; Anderton, Bob; Bairrao, Ana; Berson, … - 2017

We explore the impact of wage adjustment on employment with a focus on the role of downward nominal wage rigidities. We use a harmonised survey dataset, which covers 25 European countries in the period 2010-2013. These data are particularly useful for this paper given the firm-level information...

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Closing the mismatch : encouraging jobseekers to reskill for shortage occupations

Leduc, Elisabeth; Tojerow, Ilan - 2025

shortage occupations and related training opportunities. The intervention increased participation in transversal training … courses by 6%, but did not boost enrolment in occupational training for shortage jobs. Jobseekers also shifted their search … interventions can influence job search and training behaviour, different approaches are likely needed to drive substantial …

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Real Wages and the Business Cycle : Accounting for Worker and Firm Heterogeneity

Carneiro, Anabela Jesus Moreira - 2009

Using a longitudinal matched employer-employee data set for Portugal over the 1986-2005 period, this study analyzes the heterogeneity in wages responses to aggregate labor market conditions for newly hired workers and existing workers. Accounting for both worker and firm heterogeneity, the data...

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Real wages and the business cycle : accounting for worker, firm, and job title heterogeneity

Carneiro, Anabela; Guimarães, Paulo; Portugal, Pedro - In: American economic journal : a journal of the American … 4 (2012) 2, pp. 133-152

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Real wages and the business cycle : accounting for worker and firm heterogeneity

Carneiro, Anabela; Guimarães, Paulo; Portugal, Pedro - 2009

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Are ICT displacing workers? : evidence from seven European countries

Pantea, Smaranda; Biagi, Federico; Sabadash, Anna - 2014

This paper examines whether ICT substitute labour and reduce the demand for labour. We used firm-level comparable data separately for firms in manufacturing, services and ICT-producing sectors from seven European countries. We adopted a common methodology and applied it to a unique dataset...

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