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Mandatory notice and the jobless durations of displaced workers

Friesen, Jane - In: ILR review : the journal of work and policy 50 (1997) 4, pp. 652-666

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Mandatory Notice and the Jobless Durations of Displaced Workers

Friesen, Jane - 1998

Using Canadian Displaced Workers Survey data for 1981-86, the author studies the effect of Canadian advance notice laws on displaced workers' jobless durations. So-called group notice laws, which apply to large-scale layoffs, reduced the jobless durations of plant closure victims, but individual...

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Can Job Search Assistance Improve the Labour Market Integration for Refugees? Evidence from a Field Experiment

Battisti, Michele - 2019

We conducted a field experiment to evaluate the impact of job-search assistance on the employment of recently arrived refugees in Germany. The treatment group received job-matching support: an NGO identified suitable vacancies and sent the refugees' CVs to employers. Results of follow-up phone...

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Immigration, Search, and Redistribution : A Quantitative Assessment of Native Welfare

Battisti, Michele - 2014

We study the effects of immigration on native welfare in a general equilibrium model featuring two skill types, search frictions, wage bargaining, and a redistributive welfare state. Our quantitative analysis suggests that, in all 20 countries studied, immigration attenuates the effects of...

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