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What have we learned about the employment effects of severance pay? : Further iterations of Lazear et al.
Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2003
In this study we examine the contribution of severance pay to employment and unemployment development using data on …-varying labor market institutions. While the positive effect of severance pay on unemployment garners some support, there is no real … industrialized OECD countries. Our starting point is Lazear?s (1990) empirical dictum that severance payment requirements adversely …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261645
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What Have We Learned About the Employment Effects of Severance Pay? Further Iterations of Lazear et al.
Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
In this study we examine the contribution of severance pay to employment and unemployment development using data on …-varying labor market institutions. While the positive effect of severance pay on unemployment garners some support, there is no real … industrialized OECD countries. Our starting point is Lazear’s (1990) empirical dictum that severance payment requirements adversely …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822067
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Learning of General Equilibrium Effects and the Unemployment Trap
Gersbach, Hans; Schniewind, Achim - 2001
extend of feedback effects incorporated by the bargaining parties and real wages or unemployment. …We examine wage bargaining when employers and labor unions do not always take all general equilibrium effects into … unemployment results. With an intermediate view, when partial equilibrium effects are taken into account, high real wages and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262458
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Learning of General Equilibrium Effects and the Unemployment Trap
Gersbach, Hans; Schniewind, Achim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
extend of feedback effects incorporated by the bargaining parties and real wages or unemployment. …We examine wage bargaining when employers and labor unions do not always take all general equilibrium effects into … unemployment results. With an intermediate view, when partial equilibrium effects are taken into account, high real wages and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703472
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Ethnic Identity and Work
Constant, Amelie F. - 2014
Immigrants do not fare as well as natives in economic terms; even after including many controls, an unexplained part remains. The ethnic identity entered the field of labor and migration economics in an effort to better explain the economic outcomes of immigrants, their behavior and their often...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010435280
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Ethnic Identity and Work
Constant, Amelie F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Immigrants do not fare as well as natives in economic terms; even after including many controls, an unexplained part remains. The ethnic identity entered the field of labor and migration economics in an effort to better explain the economic outcomes of immigrants, their behavior and their often...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959840
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The Impact of Labor Market Reforms on Capital Flows, Wages and Unemployment
Beissinger, Thomas - 2001
provoked if a single country reduces the generosity of the unemployment compensation system or weakens labor union power. For … degree of competition in the goods market and the institutional setup of the unemployment compensation system. Furthermore …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262594
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The Impact of Labor Market Reforms on Capital Flows, Wages and Unemployment
Beissinger, Thomas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
provoked if a single country reduces the generosity of the unemployment compensation system or weakens labor union power. For … degree of competition in the goods market and the institutional setup of the unemployment compensation system. Furthermore …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566676
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Characteristics of unemployment dynamics: The chain reaction approach
Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis J. - 2000
The aim of this paper is to analyze and estimate salient characteristics of unemployment dynamics. Movements in … unemployment are viewed as "chain reactions" of responses to labor market shocks, working their way through systems of interacting … aggregate measures of unemployment responses to temporary and permanent shocks. These measures are temporal (depicting how long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273099
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Characteristics of Unemployment Dynamics: The Chain Reaction Approach
Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
The aim of this paper is to analyze and estimate salient characteristics of unemployment dynamics. Movements in … unemployment are viewed as ‘ ‘ chain reactions’’ of responses to labor market shocks, working their way through systems of … construct aggregate measures of unemployment responses to temporary and permanent shocks. These measures are temporal (depicting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703122