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the labor market. Its impact on employment, wages and wealth depends crucially on the design of immigration policy …
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Conventional wisdom suggests that nominal, demand-side shocks have only temporary effects on real macroeconomic magnitudes and that the duration of their effects depends on the degree of nominal inertia. It is also argued that, in the absence of unit roots, temporary supply-side shocks also have...
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By comparing mean outcomes for a large number of matched samples of participants and nonparticipants we estimate individual earnings effect of the Norwegian labour market training programme (LMT) targeted at unemployed adults in the years 1991-1996. The average training effect on the trained is...
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Unemployment insurance schemes face a well-known trade-off between providing income support to those out of work and reducing their incentive to look for work. This trade-off between benefits and incentives is central to the public debate about extending benefit periods during the recent...
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the labor market. Its impact on employment, wages and wealth depends crucially on the design of immigration policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011294532
sorted across firms and worker-firm matches upon re-employment. We find that the Hartz reforms substantially reduced the … 80 percent of the increased wage loss was because displaced workers found re-employment in lower-wage firms after the … reforms. A disproportionate share of these low-wage firms offer temporary employment services to other firms, and we document …
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This paper presents a methodology to identify net demand shocks as well as wage rigidities in heterogeneous labor markets on the basis of nonparametric regression. We show how this approach can be used to make suggestions for immigration policy in economies with labor market rigidities. In an...
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through fostering faster re-employment. …
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education shows positive effects for the unemployed with respect to both the employment probability and wages. To explain the …
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sorted across firms and worker-firm matches upon re-employment. We find that the Hartz reforms substantially reduced the … 80 percent of the increased wage loss was because displaced workers found re-employment in lower-wage firms after the … reforms. A disproportionate share of these low-wage firms offer temporary employment services to other firms, and we document …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012832592