Comparing labor markets across countries is a potentially valuable tool for identifying effective policies and institutions. But, because countries often define variables or collect data in divergent ways, making such comparisons is difficult.
In a paper in the American Economic Review: Insights, authors Antoine Bertheau, Edoardo Maria Acabbi, Cristina Barceló, Andreas Gulyas, Stefano Lombardi and Raffaele Saggio shed light on the consequences of losing a job in different labor markets by building a harmonized dataset across seven European countries.
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