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(Spillover) effects of labour market reforms in Germany and France
Fries, Claudia; Seymen, Atılım - 2013
countries - Germany and France - on the domestic and foreign economy. We test the implications of the gains in matching …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010432449
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Estimating the effect of a retraining program on the re-employment rate of displaced workers
Cavaco, Sandra; Fougère, Denis; Pouget, Julien - 2009
In this paper we estimate by matching techniques the effects of a French retraining program on the reemployment rate of …. Our empirical analysis is based upon non-experimental data collected by the French Ministry of Labour. Matching estimates …. -- Evaluation ; retraining program ; displaced workers ; matching estimates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003860913
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Analyzing the anticipation of treatments using data on notification dates
Crépon, Bruno; Jolivet, Grégory; Berg, Gerald J. van den - 2010
When treatments may occur at different points in time, most evaluation methods assume - implicitly or explicitly - that all the information used by subjects about the occurrence of a future treatment is available to the researcher. This is often called the "no anticipation" assumption. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009154563
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Youth unemployment in old Europe : the polar cases of France and Germany
Cahuc, Pierre; Carcillo, Stéphane; Rinne, Ulf; … - 2013
France and Germany are two polar cases in the European debate about rising youth unemployment. Similar to what can be observed in Southern European countries, a "lost generation" may arise in France. In stark contrast, youth unemployment has been on continuous decline in Germany for many years,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009770651
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A tale of two countries : a story of the French and US polarization
Albertini, Julien; Hairault, Jean-Olivier; Langot, François - 2017
to that of the French economy. We then develop a multi-sectorial search and matching model with endogenous occupational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011732027
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On the role of sectoral and national components in the wage bargaining process
Dreger, Christian; Reimers, Hans-Eggert - 2010
This paper provides an empirical analysis on the determination of wages at the sectoral level in main industrial economies. Nominal wages are bargained between labour unions and employers in imperfect competitive markets, where spillovers across sectors might occur. Using a principal component...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003959628
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Aging and pensions in general equilibrium : labor market imperfections matter
De la Croix, David; Pierrard, Olivier; Sneessens, Henri R. - 2010
This paper re-examines the effects of population aging and pension reforms in an OLG model with labor market frictions. The most important feature brought about by labor market frictions is the connection between the interest rate and the unemployment rate. Exogenous shocks (such as aging)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009155050
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Combining micro and macro unemployment duration data
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Klaauw, Bas van der - 1998
We combine micro and macro unemployment duration data to study the effects of the business cycle on the outflow from unemployment. We allow the cycle to affect individual exit probabilities of unemployed workers as well as the composition of the total inflow into unemployment. We estimate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011299970
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Combining micro and macro unemployment duration data
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Klaauw, Bas van der - 2000
We combine micro and macro unemployment duration data to study the effects of the business cycle on the outflow from unemployment. We allow the cycle to affect individual exit probabilities of unemployed workers as well as the composition of the total inflow into unemployment. We estimate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011318596
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Contingent convergence : a comparative analysis of activation policies
Eichhorst, Werner (contributor);  … - 2008
The trend towards activation has been one of the major issues in recent welfare and labour market reforms in Europe and the US. Despite considerable initial variation across national models with respect to the scope and intensity of activation, redefining the link between social protection and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793501