Labour Market Signalling and Unemployment Duration: An Empirical Analysis Using Employer–employee Data

Anders Frederiksen; Rikke Ibsen; Michael Rosholm; Niels Westergård-Nielsen

doi:10.1016/j.econlet.2012.09.032

Labour Market Signalling and Unemployment Duration: An Empirical Analysis Using Employer–employee Data

Anders Frederiksen, Rikke Ibsen, Michael Rosholm, Niels Westergård-Nielsen

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Abstract

We test the signalling hypothesis using detailed flow-based employer–employee data from Denmark. Our main findings are: the signalling value is proportional to the proportion of employees dismissed from the workplace and the signal is uniform across occupation groups.

Original language	English
Journal	Economics Letters
Volume	118
Issue number	1
Pages (from-to)	84–86
Number of pages	3
ISSN	0165-1765
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2012.09.032
Publication status	Published - Jan 2013
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Unemployment duration
Signalling
Workplace closure

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