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This study investigates whether working time accounts affect the performance of German establishments based on the Establishment Panel from the Institute for Employment Research. The major results are: product...
IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 2015 4:24
Published on: 10 December 2015
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The Syrian Civil War gave rise to the largest refugee flight reaching Europe since the Yugoslavian wars in the 1990s. The crisis evidenced the deficiencies of the European Union Asylum Policy, which struggled ...
IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 2015 4:23
Published on: 27 November 2015
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Training programs for the unemployed typically involve training specific skills in demand amongst employers. In 1997, Swedish unemployed could also choose general schooling at the upper secondary level. This o...
IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 2015 4:22
Published on: 13 November 2015
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We study the entry into legitimate employment and earnings of a large sample of convicts released from Hungarian prisons in 2002–08. The employment rate of the prisoners falls short of 20% one year before inca...
IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 2015 4:21
Published on: 28 October 2015
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This paper investigates whether the early experience of non-employment has a causal impact on workers’ subsequent career. The analysis is based on a sample of low educated youth graduating between 1994 and 200...
IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 2015 4:20
Published on: 13 October 2015
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Using harmonised micro data, this paper investigates the effects of the early phase (2008-10) of the recent economic crisis on transitions between labour market states in Europe. Our analysis focuses on indivi...
IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 2015 4:19
Published on: 25 September 2015
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In this paper we examine nominal earnings flexibility in Ireland during the Great Recession. The Irish case is particularly interesting because it has been one of the countries most affected by the crisis. Usi...
IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 2015 4:18
Published on: 10 September 2015
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This paper aims to investigate the effects of the introduction of an active welfare state measure in France, the Revenu de Solidarité Active, which replaced the old system of social minima. By using a micro–ma...
IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 2015 4:17
Published on: 27 August 2015
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Since 2010 the UK Government has aimed to reduce net-migration. The UK Government cannot restrict EEA migration, and it has focused instead on restricting non-EEA migration, including closing routes intended f...
IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 2015 4:16
Published on: 10 August 2015
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We examine the trajectories of the real unit labour costs (RULCs) in a selection of Eurozone economies. Strong asymmetries in the convergence process of the RULCs and its components—real wages, capital intensi...
IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 2015 4:15
Published on: 24 July 2015
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This paper uses pseudo panel techniques and a fixed effects estimator to analyse the determinants of preferences for redistribution in 34 European countries over the period 2002–2012. The data is drawn from th...
IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 2015 4:14
Published on: 10 July 2015
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We estimate real wage cyclicality in the period compressed between 1987 and 2013 using a large administrative dataset of workers in Spain. Real wages are weakly procyclical in Spain and focusing on differences...
IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 2015 4:13
Published on: 26 June 2015
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The purpose of this paper is to assess the determinants of female labour supply in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). To account for selection problems, a special type of grouping estimat...
IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 2015 4:12
Published on: 12 June 2015
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This essay aims to discuss the conditions for a successful implementation of the European Youth Guarantee in Italy. In principle, the program should be able to affect the frictional and mismatch components of ...
IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 2015 4:11
Published on: 26 May 2015
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In Romania, the communist regime promoted an official policy of gender equality for more than 40 years, providing equal access to education and employment and restricting pay differentiation based on gender. A...
IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 2015 4:10
Published on: 15 May 2015
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This paper assesses the impact the Great Recession had on individuals’ transitions to and from unemployment in Ireland. The rate of transition from unemployment to employment declined between 2006 and 2011, wh...
IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 2015 4:9
Published on: 29 April 2015
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Using new linked employer-employee data from Germany, this article provides the first evidence on the effect of employer provided occupational pensions on work engagement. Famous efficiency wage theories predi...
IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 2015 4:8
Published on: 24 April 2015
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We study the effect of standardized external tests on students’ academic outcomes. We exploit the fact that only one of the 17 Spanish regions started doing and publishing the results of standardized tests in ...
IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 2015 4:7
Published on: 26 March 2015
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There is little evidence as to the effectiveness of incentives for the conversion of fixed-term contracts into permanent jobs. We aim at filling this gap by studying a recent Italian program which provides ben...
IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 2015 4:6
Published on: 19 March 2015
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Using the 2010 Life in Transition Survey, we show that localities with higher religious diversity have more respondents who have tried to set up a business. Although religious diversity also correlates with a ...
IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 2015 4:5
Published on: 28 February 2015
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We use the labor force ad hoc module “transition from work into retirement” to analyze the link between individual as well as pension system characteristics and planned retirement age within the European Union...
IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 2015 4:4
Published on: 12 February 2015
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A historically high level of youth unemployment presents Greece with a huge social and economic challenge. This paper analyses various dimensions of this challenge. We argue that though the conventional defini...
IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 2015 4:1
Published on: 29 January 2015
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Using the United Kingdom household longitudinal study (UKHLS), this paper shows the effect of experiencing a father being out of work on a range of labour market outcomes as young adults. Children of non-worki...
IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 2015 4:2
Published on: 14 January 2015
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In contrast to previous results combining all ages, we find positive effects of comparison income on happiness for the under 45s and negative effects for those over 45. In the UK, these coefficients are several t...
IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 2014 3:24
Published on: 30 December 2014
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Wage inequality in Portugal has increased over the last thirty years, with two distinct periods. The period from 1984 to the mid-90s witnessed strong increases in both upper- and lower-tail inequality. A short...
IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 2014 3:23
Published on: 12 December 2014
