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Supply shocks and the factor price frontier : labour market adjustment in the United States and Germany

Hornung, Dietmar; Schimmelpfennig, Axel; Wapler, Rüdiger - 1998

employment remains constant. With a rigid wage rate, a rise in unemployment of unskilled labour follows. The model explains the …

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Some Like it Hot : Assessing Longer-Term Labor Market Benefits from a High-Pressure Economy

Hotchkiss, Julie L. - 2020

Surveys of Youth, we find that negative labor market outcomes during high unemployment periods are mitigated by exposure to a … negative impact of high unemployment periods on labor market outcomes of disadvantaged groups, making extension of high …

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Some Like it Hot : Assessing Longer-Term Labor Market Benefits from a High-Pressure Economy

Hotchkiss, Julie L. - 2018

Surveys of Youth, we find that negative labor market outcomes during high unemployment periods are mitigated by exposure to a …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012924924

The Labor Market Performance of Immigrants in Germany

Beyer, Robert - 2016

The paper uses a large survey (GSOEP) to analyze the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. It finds that new immigrant workers earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for immigrants from advanced countries,...

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Does employment protection unprotect workers? : the labor market effects of job reinstatements in Peru

Jiménez, Bruno; Rendón, Sílvio - 2020

We investigate the labor market effects of the reestablishment of private-sector workers' right to reinstatement for unfair dismissals, which occurred in 2002 in Peru. Using data from Peruvian Household Surveys from 2004 to 2015, and the Specialized Employment Survey 1998-2001, we estimate a...

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Rejuvenating Greece's labour market to generate more and higher-quality jobs

Bulman, Tim - 2020

picking up. Unemployment remained high and employment rates were low, especially among women, the young and older workers. The …

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Wage losses and inequality in developing countries : labor market and distributional consequences of Covid-19 lockdowns in Turkey

Duman, Anil - 2020

We develop a possibility to work index (PWI) taking the ability to work from home and workplace closures into account. By using the data from the HLFS in Turkey, we examine the individual level determinants of PWI. Our findings reveal that PWI and ability to work from home are significantly...

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Selective firing and lemons

Weynandt, Michèle - 2014

This paper uses the Austrian Social Security Register (ASSD) to explore what information firms infer from the three common types of displacement: individual layoffs, individuals displaced due to a closure and individuals displaced due to a mass layoff. I bring together two strands of the...

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Wage Employment, Unemployment and Self-Employment Across Countries

Poschke, Markus - 2019

have high rates of unemployment relative to wage employment, and that self-employment is particularly high where the … unemployment-wage employment ratio is high. I interpret high unemployment-employment ratios as evidence of labor market frictions … labor market frictions can explain almost the entire variation in not only unemployment, but also wage employment and self …

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Biased expectations and labor market outcomes : evidence from German survey data and implications for the East-West wage gap

Balleer, Almut; Duernecker, Georg; Forstner, Susanne; … - 2024

We measure individual bias in labor market expectations in German survey data and find that workers on average significantly overestimate their individual probabilities to separate from their job when employed as well to find a job when unemployed. These biases vary significantly between...

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