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Wage and Employment Determination in Volatile Times : Sweden 1913-1939
Holmlund, Bertil - 2012
The paper studies wage and employment determination in the Swedish business sector from the mid-1910s to the late 1930s. This period includes the boom and bust cycle of the early 1920s as well as the Great Depression of the early 1930s. The events of the early 1920s are particularly intriguing,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106962
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Wage and Employment Determination in Volatile Times : Sweden 1913-1939
Holmlund, Bertil - 2012
The paper studies wage and employment determination in the Swedish business sector from the mid-1910s to the late 1930s. This period includes the boom and bust cycle of the early 1920s as well as the Great Depression of the early 1930s. The events of the early 1920s are particularly intriguing,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107065
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Wage and employment determination in volatile times : Sweden 1913 - 1939
Holmlund, Bertil - 2012
The paper studies wage and employment determination in the Swedish business sector from the mid-1910s to the late 1930s. This period includes the boom and bust cycle of the early 1920s as well as the Great Depression of the early 1930s. The events of the early 1920s are particularly intriguing,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009536419
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Wage and employment determination in volatile times : Sweden 1913 - 1939
Holmund, Bertil - 2012
The paper studies wage and employment determination in the Swedish business sector from the mid-1910s to the late 1930s. This period includes the boom and bust cycle of the early 1920s as well as the Great Depression of the early 1930s. The events of the early 1920s are particularly intriguing,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009534172
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Wage and employment determination in volatile times : Sweden 1913-1939
Holmlund, Bertil - 2012 - This version: April 18, 2012
The paper studies wage and employment determination in the Swedish business sector from the mid-1910s to the late 1930s. This period includes the boom and bust cycle of the early 1920s as well as the Great Depression of the early 1930s. The events of the early 1920s are particularly intriguing,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009533963
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Unemployment Invariance
Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis J. - School of Economics and Finance, Queen Mary - 2002
This paper provides a critique of the ``unemployment invariance hypothesis,'' according to which the behavior of the labor market ensures that the long-run unemployment rate is independent of the size of the capital stock, productivity, and the labor force. Using Solow growth and endogenous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005106368
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Retaining through training even for older workers
Picchio, Matteo; Ours, Jan C. van - In: Economics of Education Review 32 (2013) C, pp. 29-48
This paper investigates whether on-the-job training has an effect on the employability of workers. Using data from the … Netherlands we disentangle the true effect of training incidence from the spurious one determined by unobserved individual … receiving firm-provided training. We find that firm-provided training significantly increases future employment prospects. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010869500
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Can Information About Jobs Improve the Effectiveness of Vocational Training? Experimental Evidence from India
Chakravorty, Bhaskar; Arulampalam, Wiji; Bhatiya, … - 2023
vocational trainees on their employment outcomes. The setting of the study is the vocational training program DDU-GKY in India …. We find that including in the training two information sessions about placement opportunities make trainees 18% more … selection into training: as a result of the intervention, trainees that are over-optimistic about placement jobs are more likely …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014344834
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Can information about jobs improve the effectiveness of vocational training? : experimental evidence from India
Chakravorty, Bhaskar; Arulampalam, Wiji; Imbert, Clément; … - 2021
can improve their placement outcomes. The study setting is the vocational training programme DDU-GKY in India. We find … that including in the training two information sessions about placement opportunities make trainees 17% more likely to stay … in the jobs in which they are placed. We argue that this effect is likely driven by improved selection into training. As …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012549436
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Where does the minimum wage bite hardest in California?
Even, William E.; Macpherson, David A. - 2018
This study uses employment data on California county-industry pairs (CIPs) between 1990 and 2016 to test whether minimum wage increases caused employment growth to slow most in the CIPS with a large share of low wage workers. Evidence supports the hypothesis, and we use the estimates to simulate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011951551