scholarly journals The Effect of Labor Market Conditions at Entry on Workers’ Long-Term Skills

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-45
Author(s):  
Jaime Arellano-Bover
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Cognitive Skills ◽  
Small Firms ◽  
Skill Development ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Market Conditions ◽  
Labor Market Conditions ◽  
Unemployment Rates ◽  
Using Data

Using data on adults’ cognitive skills from 19 countries, this paper shows that labor market conditions during the education-to-work transition impact workers’ long-term skill development. Workers who faced higher unemployment rates at ages 18-25 have lower skills at ages 36-59. Unemployment rates at ages 26-35 do not have such an effect. Skill inequality is affected: those with less educated parents experience most of the negative effects. Using German panel data on skills, I document a mechanism related to heterogeneous skill development across firms: young workers at large firms experience higher skill growth than those at small firms.

Why Was the Arab World Poised for Revolution? Schooling, Opportunities, and the Arab Spring

2013 ◽  
pp. 73-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Campante ◽  
D. Chor
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Arab Spring ◽  
Arab World ◽  
First Year ◽  
Market Conditions ◽  
Long Term Conditions ◽  
Labor Market Conditions ◽  
Arab Region ◽  
The Arab Spring

What underlying long-term conditions set the stage for the Arab Spring? In recent decades, the Arab region has been characterized by an expansion in schooling coupled with weak labor market conditions. This pattern is especially pronounced in those countries that saw significant upheaval during the first year of the Arab Spring uprisings. We argue that the lack of adequate economic opportunities for an increasingly educated populace can help us understand episodes of regime instability such as the Arab Spring.

Long-term Health Consequences of Adverse Labor Market Conditions at Time of Leaving Education: Evidence from West German Panel Data

2018 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 151-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philipp M. Lersch ◽  
Marita Jacob ◽  
Karsten Hank
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Panel Study ◽  
State Level ◽  
West Germany ◽  
Market Conditions ◽  
Labor Market Conditions ◽  
High Unemployment ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Health Deterioration

Using longitudinal survey data from the Socio-Economic Panel Study ( N = 3,003 respondents with 22,165 individual-year observations) and exploiting temporal and regional variation in state-level unemployment rates in West Germany, we explore differences in trajectories of individuals’ self-rated health over a period of up to 23 years after leaving education under different regional labor market conditions. We find evidence for immediate positive effects of contextual unemployment when leaving education on individuals’ health. We find no evidence for generally accelerated or decelerated health deterioration when leaving education in high-unemployment contexts. We find, however, that individual unemployment experience when leaving education is associated with worse health and with more accelerated health deterioration in high-unemployment contexts. The cumulative experience of unemployment after leaving education does not mediate the influence of early labor market experiences for long-term health outcomes. In addition, our analyses indicate no gender differences in these results.

Evaluating the impact of the labor market conditions index on labor market forecasts

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Connolly ◽  
Alice Sheehan
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Predictive Power ◽  
Market Conditions ◽  
Labor Market Conditions ◽  
Unemployment Rates ◽  
Out Of Sample ◽  
Market Variables ◽  
Labor Market Shocks ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Recessionary Periods

AbstractThis paper examines the usefulness of the labor market conditions index (LMCI) in forecasting key labor market variables, particularly unemployment rates. Using a number of models, we compare out-of-sample forecasts of the unemployment rate with the LMCI to those without the LMCI. We also estimate models of the disaggregated unemployment rates by gender, race, and race by gender, with and without the LMCI, to identify disparities in the predictive power of the LMCI for different subgroups. Last, to determine how the LMCI performs in the presence of labor market shocks, we compare the forecasting performance of the LMCI during recessionary periods and expansionary periods. Our results confirm the potential usefulness of the LMCI as a parsimonious forecasting tool; we find that the LMCI generally improves unemployment forecasts. But, disparities exist in the predictive power of the index across subpopulations and the index forecasts slightly better during recessionary periods than expansionary periods.

Business management in the light of cultural diversity in the labor market

2020 ◽  
pp. 28-44
Author(s):  
René Pawera ◽  
Monika Lavrovičová ◽  
Lucia Húsenicová
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Slovak Republic ◽  
Business Management ◽  
Diversity Management ◽  
Equal Opportunities ◽  
Market Conditions ◽  
Labor Market Conditions ◽  
Labor Market Inequality

An important element of the management of modern companies and organizations is the proper use of diversity management and equal opportunities, aimed at eliminating discrimination in the labor market. The paper summarizes the starting points for these processes in the labor market. It describes the tendencies of the development of the solved problem in the context of the labor market conditions of the Slovak Republic. Key words: labor market inequality, equal opportunities management, diversity management

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