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Job creation and job destruction in Estonia: labour reallocation and structural changes

Masso, Jaan; Eamets, Raul; Philips, Kaia - 2005

This article documents and analyses gross job flows and their determinants in Estonia over the years 1995-2001, using a database containing the population of officially registered firms in Estonia (all in all 52,000). Our results show that job creation and job destruction rates have been rather...

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Do unemployment benefits promote or hinder structural change?

Boeri, Tito; Macis, Mario - 2008

effects of UBs on labor market stocks, we focus on flows and rely on policy experiments, notably the introduction from scratch …

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They are even larger! More (on) puzzling labor market volatilities

Gartner, Hermann; Merkl, Christian; Rothe, Thomas - 2009

This paper shows that the German labor market is more volatile than the US labor market. Specifically, the volatility … of the cyclical component of several labor market variables (e.g., the job-finding rate, labor market tightness, and job … vacancies) divided by the volatility of labor productivity is roughly twice as large as in the United States. We derive and …

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Social Networks and Labor Market Transitions

Bramoullé, Yann; Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2004

We study the influence of social networks on labor market transitions. We develop the first model where social ties and …

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Is Job Stability Declining in Germany? Evidences from Count Data Models

Winkelmann, Rainer; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1998

The macro evidence of increased adjustment pressure since the early seventies suggests that job mobility should have increased. Hence, retrospective and spell data from the German Socio-Economic Panel are combined in order to test the hypothesis that job stability for German workers declined...

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Tenure-based Wage Setting

Hart, Robert A.; Ritchie, Felix - 1999

We provide empirical support for the contention that within-job wage growth relates purely to job-specific performance and that returns to general experience are assessed at the point of job change. Using the British New Earnings Survey panel data we identify job changes that take place both...

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Tenures that Shook the World: Worker Turnover in Russia, Poland and Britain

Lehmann, Hartmut; Wadsworth, Jonathan - 1999

employed by a firm shapes the turnover process. Using data from the Polish Labor Force Survey and The Russian Longitudinal …

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Wages, Training and Job Turnover in a Search-Matching Model

Rosholm, Michael; Svarer, Michael - 2000

the model provides a good characterization of some empirical features of the labor market. …

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Individual Pay and Outside Options: Evidence from the Polish Labour Force Survey

Duffy, Fiona; Walsh, Patrick Paul - 2001

Using Polish Labour Force Survey data, we examine whether competition for labour has induced individual pay to depend on outside options, availability and quality of jobs. Exploiting the lack of inter-regional job and worker flows we estimate the elasticity of individual pay, amongst a rich set...

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Home ownership, job duration, and wages

Munch, Jakob Roland; Rosholm, Michael; Svarer, Michael - 2006

We investigate the impact of home ownership on individual job mobility and wages in Denmark. We find that home ownership has a negative impact on job-to-job mobility both in terms of transition into new local jobs and new jobs outside the local labour market. In addition, there is a clear...

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