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    Title: Cash-on-Hand and the Duration of Job Search. Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Norway  Author(s): BASTEN, Christoph; FAGERENG, Andreas; TELLE, Kjetil Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: 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 ...
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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: Labor Market Dynamics and the Business Cycle: Structural Evidence for the United States  Author(s): RAVN, Morten O.; SIMONELLI, Saverio Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: We use a 12-dimensional VAR to examine the dynamic effects on the labor market of four struc- tural technology and policy shocks. For each shock, we examine the dynamic effects on the labor market, the importance of the ...
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    Title: Employment Protection, Firm Selection, and Growth  Author(s): POSCHKE, Markus Date: 2006 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: This paper analyzes the effect of firing costs on aggregate productivity growth. For this purpose, a model of endogenous growth through selection and imitation is developed. It is consistent with recent evidence on firm ...
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    Title: Strategic Wage Bargaining, Labor Market Volatility and Persistence  Author(s): HERTWECK, Matthias S. Date: 2006 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: This paper modifies the standard Mortensen-Pissarides job matching model in order to explain the cyclical behavior of vacancies and unemployment. The modifications include strategic wage bargaining (Hall and Milgrom, ...