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    Title: Claiming Social Security Benefits Early to Retire Later  Author(s): FAWAZ, Yarine Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This paper examines Social Security benefit claiming behavior in the US using the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) to implement a duration model. It focuses essentially on the rushing/delaying behavior of the unemployed ...
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    Title: Trade and Labor Market Outcomes  Author(s): HELPMAN, Elhanan; ITSKHOKI, Oleg; REDDING, Stephen Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: 2011/03 Abstract: This paper reviews a new framework for analyzing the interrelationship between inequality, unemployment, labor market frictions, and foreign trade. This framework emphasizes firm heterogeneity and search and matching ...
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    Title: Learning about the Match Quality: Information Flows and Labor Market Outcomes of Skill Groups  Author(s): SENGUL, Gonul Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: Workers with higher skills (more education) have lower unemployment rates, lower probabilities of separating from their jobs, and lower probabilities of losing their jobs conditional on tenure. This paper analyzes to what ...
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    Title: Technology Adoption, Turbulence and the Dynamics of Unemployment  Author(s): DUERNECKER, Georg Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: The divergence of unemployment rates between the U.S. and Europe coincided with a substantial acceleration in capital-embodied technical change in the late 70’s. Furthermore, evidence suggests that European economies ...
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    Title: Reassessing Labor Market Reforms: Temporary Contracts as a Screening Device  Author(s): FACCINI, Renato Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: Standard models of temporary contracts are either inconclusive, or fail to ac- count for the positive correlation between temporary contracts and the employ- ment rate, and for the high transition rates into permanent ...
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    Title: Asset Based Unemployment Insurance  Author(s): RENDAHL, Pontus Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: This paper studies a model of optimal redistribution policies in which agents face unemployment risk and in which savings may provide partial self-insurance. Moral hazard arises as job search effort is unobservable. The ...
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    Title: Unemployment and Within-Group Wage Inequality: Can Information Explain the Trade-Off?  Author(s): FACCINI, Renato Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: In Italy, following WWII, speci c hiring procedures were developed that prevented rms from screening workers. More in particular, these institutions char- acterized the Italian labor market with respect to the US labor ...
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    Title: Losses and Gains to Developing Countries from the Migration of Educated Workers: An Overview of Recent Research, and New Reflections  Author(s): STARK, Oded; FAN, Simon C. Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Technical Report Series/Report no.: MIREM-AR Abstract: This paper synthesizes and extends recent research on “The New Economics of the Brain Drain.” In a unified framework, the paper shows that while recently identified adverse repercussions of the brain drain exacerbate the ...