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Browsing by Subject "Unemployment"
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Title:Crisis and trust in national and European Union institutions : panel evidence for the EU, 1999 to 2012
Author(s):ROTH, Felix; NOWAK-LEHMANN D., Felicitas; OTTER, ThomasDate:2013Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This paper analyses the effects of the crisis on trust in national and European Union institutions within an EU27 country sample from 1999 to 2012. The paper finds that the overall negative trends in trust throughout the ...
Title:Cash-on-Hand and the Duration of Job Search. Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Norway
Author(s):BASTEN, Christoph; FAGERENG, Andreas; TELLE, KjetilDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:We identify the causal effect of lump-sum severance payments on non-employment duration in Norway by exploiting a discontinuity in eligibility at age 50. We find that a severance payment worth 1.2 months’ earnings at the ...
Title:Trade and Labor Market Outcomes
Author(s):HELPMAN, Elhanan; ITSKHOKI, Oleg; REDDING, StephenDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:OtherSeries/Report no.:2011/03Abstract: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 ...
Title:Learning about the Match Quality: Information Flows and Labor Market Outcomes of Skill Groups
Author(s):SENGUL, GonulDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract: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 ...
Title:Dangerous transitions in the 'new West': Youth, work and unemployment in post-Soviet Lithuania
Author(s):REITER, HerwigDate:2008Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Unemployment is one of the most important new features of the post-communist world of work. Following the collapse of the communist regimes, the socio-economic reorientation of these societies towards market democracy ...
Title:Technology Adoption, Turbulence and the Dynamics of Unemployment
Author(s):DUERNECKER, GeorgDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract: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 ...