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Update Q4 2010: The Universe Of Corporate PC Backup Options
Nov 2010
What's your reaction to this scenario? One of your engineers leaves their laptop, full of mission-critical (but encrypted) data, in a cab. One frantic phone call later and we learn that the data...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Crime, Immigration And The Labor Market: A General Equilibrium Model
Nov 2010
Does immigration cause crime? To answer this question, the authors build a two-country general equilibrium model with search costs in which the migration (in/out-) flows, the crime rates and the...
Provided by University of Padova
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Can Labor Market Imperfections Cause Overprovision Of Public Inputs?
Nov 2009
In a model where trade unions dominate the labor market, a relationship is derived between the rate of unemployment and the provision of a public input in the production. This relationship implies...
Provided by Universidad Pablo de Olavide
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Advertising, Labor Supply And The Aggregate Economy. A Long Run Analysis
Nov 2009
This paper studies the influence of persuasive advertising in a neoclassical growth model with monopolistically competitive firms. The findings show that advertising can significantly affect the...
Provided by Universidad Pablo de Olavide
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Labor Share Dynamics: A Survey Of The Theory
Oct 2009
Labor share dynamics has been viewed as a minor concern in the years before the actual crisis. Despite in many European countries income distribution was increasingly favouring capital, this fact...
Provided by Università degli Studi di Parma
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Did Immigrants In The U.S. Labor Market Make Conditions Worse For Native Workers During The Great Recession?
Jan 2011
Did the presence of immigrant workers in the United States labor market - including both documented and undocumented workers - significantly affect conditions for low-wage native workers during...
Provided by University of Massachusetts
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A Human Development Index
Dec 2009
Migration continues to be a very important income diversification strategy, especially for poor populations in developing countries. However, while there has been much analysis on the economic...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Skill Flow: A Fundamental Reconsideration Of Skilled-Worker Mobility And Development
Dec 2009
Large numbers of doctors, engineers, and other skilled workers from developing counties choose to move to other countries. Do their choices threaten development? The answer appears so obvious that...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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The Causes And Effects Of International Labor Mobility: Evidence From OECD Countries 1980-2005
Dec 2009
This paper contains three important contributions to the literature on international migrations. First, it compiles a new dataset on migration flows and stocks and on immigration laws for 14 OECD...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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American Business: Stopping Employee Theft
Mar 2011
The betrayal and financial loss of having an employee steal from you can be emotionally draining. The founder of the Shulman Center for Compulsive Theft and Spending; an attorney and chair of the...
Provided by American Express Company
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Migration Flows And Labour Market In Poland
Nov 2007
In the paper temporary migration flows are analyzed in conjunction with information on labour market gross flows. Gross migration flows were calculated on the base of the household survey that is...
Provided by National Bank of Poland
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The Evolution Of Bargaining Under Austerity: Political Change In Contemporary French And German Labor-Market Reform
Oct 2007
This paper examines the relationship among economic context, political institutions, and the political dynamics of adjustment within national models of capitalism through an analysis of recent...
Provided by EconStor
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Employee Voice And Human Resource Management: An Empirical Analysis Using British Data
Jul 2007
Using British workplace data the authors examine the relationship between Human Resource Management (HRM) and different forms of employee voice. After controlling for observable establishment...
Provided by University of Westminster
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Employment Effects Under Planned Changes To The EPA's Air Pollution Rules
Feb 2011
The U.S. electric power sector is changing and modernizing in response to societal and market forces. Power companies face a business imperative to meet increasing pressures for cleaner, more...
Provided by University of Massachusetts
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Sudden Stops, Financial Frictions, And Labor Market Flows: Evidence From Latin America
Aug 2010
Sudden stops and international financial crises have been a main feature of developing countries in the last three decades. While their aggregate effects are well known, the disaggregated channels...
Provided by Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
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Rethinking The Effects Of Immigration On Wages
May 2008
This paper asks the following question: what was the effect of surging immigration on average and individual wages of U.S.-born workers during the period 1990-2004? The authors emphasize the need...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Firms' Reactions To The Crisis And Their Consequences For The Labour Market. Results Of A Company Survey Conducted In Austria
Dec 2010
This paper is based on the results of two company surveys - the first was conducted in 2007, before the recession 2008/2009 hit Austria, and the second was conducted in 2009 shortly after the...
Provided by Oesterreichische Nationalbank
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Children Of Immigrants In The Labour Markets Of EU And OECD Countries
Oct 2009
This paper provides a first comparative overview of the presence and outcomes of the children of immigrants in the labour markets of OECD countries, based on a collection of data from 16 OECD...
Provided by OECD
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Labour Market Integration In Norway
Sep 2009
In the context of longstanding and significant differences between the labour market outcomes of the native-born and immigrants, the labour market integration of immigrants has been a key policy...
Provided by OECD
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Assessing The Impact Of Labour Market Policies On Productivity: A Difference-In-Differences Approach
Jun 2007
The impact of four labour market policies - employment protection legislation, minimum wages, parental leave and unemployment benefits - on productivity is examined here, using annual...
Provided by OECD
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How Does Academic Ability Affect Educational And Labour Market Pathways In Canada
Feb 2010
Using data from the Youth in Transition Survey (YITS), this paper provides an up-to-date description of educational and labour market pathways (or transitions) among Canadian youth. It also...
Provided by OECD
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White Papers
Do Wage Subsidies Affect The Subsequent Employment Stability Of Permanent Workers?: The Case Of Spain
Apr 2010
This paper studies how job creation subsidies designed for several Spanish regional governments to foster the creation of new permanent contracts during the period 1997-2004 might affect the...
Provided by Universidad Pablo de Olavide
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Unions, Monetary Shocks And The Labour Market Cycle
Jan 2010
This paper provides a new growth model by considering strategic behaviour in the supply of labour. Workers form a labour union with the aim of manipulating wages in their own benefit. The authors...
Provided by University of the Basque Country
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Quantifying The Workplace Impact Of Employees Personal Legal Matters: Five Issues Addressed With Group Legal Plans
Apr 2011
Retaining talent is one of the leading strategic benefits objectives identified among employers, but a decline in the percentage of employees who feel a strong loyalty toward their employer is...
Provided by Hyatt Legal Plans
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Alternative Ways Of Measuring And Interpreting Worker Flows
Jul 2009
The present paper provides empirical evidence compatible with a proposed theoretical framework to explain the joint determination of two components of worker flows: worker replacement and job...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
Transitional Labour Markets, From Theory To Policyapplication. Transitional Labour Markets And Flexicurity : Managing Social Risks Over The Lifecourse
Nov 2009
This paper presents a conceptual approach related to the European flexicurity debate, the Transitional Labour Market (TLM) theory and its main assumptions. The aim is to bring this analytic...
Provided by Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe
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Unemployment And Relative Labor Market Institutions Between Trading Partners
Dec 2010
After New Zealand initiated inflation targeting in 1990, a large number of industrial and emerging countries have explicitly adopted an inflation target as their nominal anchor. In the last two...
Provided by Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe
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A Taxonomy Of European Labour Markets Using Quality Indicators
May 2008
The paper proposes a critical approach of European job quality indicators. It relies on both theoretical and empirical analysis, and shows the necessity to introduce complementary variables, such...
Provided by Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe
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Dynamical Equilibrium, Trajectories Study In An Economical System. The Case Of The Labor Market
Jul 2007
The paper deals with the study of labor market dynamics, and aims to characterize its equilibriums and possible trajectories. The theoretical background is the theory of the segmented labor...
Provided by Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe
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Labour And Employment In A Globalising World
Oct 2010
Recent transformations in work and employment in developed countries may well be reproducing situations once typical of the developing world. Flexibility and corporate decision-making autonomy,...
Provided by Université Paris Dauphine
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Interaction Between Underground Employment And Unions In Selected Italian Industries
Jul 2008
In this paper the authors investigated empirically the nature of the relation between underground employment and unions in Italy, focusing on certain productive sectors. The motivation for this...
Provided by Università degli Studi di Napoli "Parthenope"
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« The Scarring Effect Of Unemployment In Ten European Countries : An Analysis Based On The ECHP »
Apr 2011
This paper investigates the effect of unemployment on earnings for ten European countries. Using a harmonised database (ECHP), the authors estimate the impact of declared unemployment on...
Provided by University Nancy
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Private Information, Wage Bargaining And Employment Fluctuations
Jul 2007
Shimer (2005) pointed out that although the authors have a satisfactory theory of why some workers are unemployed at any given time, they don't know why the number of unemployed workers varies so...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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The Labor Market Of Italian Politicians Second Version
May 2009
Like voters (the represented), politicians (the representees) are the heart and soul of representative democracy. But isn't being a politician just like any other job? After the authors get past...
Provided by University of Pennsylvania
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Resource Management And Transition In Central Asia, Azerbaijan, And Mongolia
Mar 2011
The paper presents a comparative analysis of the resource-rich transition economies of Mongolia and the southern republics of the former Soviet Union. For Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, the ability...
Provided by Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics
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Labour Incentive Schemes In A Cournot Duopoly With Simple Institutional Constraints
Sep 2010
This paper studies equilibrium incentive contracts in a Cournot duopoly, in which institutional arrangements constrain firms to pay (risk-neutral) workers a given salary. In this context,...
Provided by University of Pisa
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From Wage Rigidities To Labour Market Rigidities: A Turning-Point In Explaining Equilibrium Unemployment?
Nov 2009
This paper offers a critical discussion of the concept of labour market rigidity relevant to explaining unemployment. Starting from Keynes's own view, the authors discuss how the concept of labour...
Provided by University of Pisa
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Social Capital And The Labour Market
Jan 2008
The main question of this paper is: what type of social capital is able to mitigate labour precariousness and to foster human development? This issue has been addressed through a review of the...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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SME Fringe Benefits Provision
Mar 2011
The aim of this paper is to inform the reader about the distribution of fringe benefits provided to employees by firms in 10 provinces of Vietnam. Five types of benefits are considered: Annual...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Unemployment Durations After Temporary Work: Evidence For Great Britain And Germany
Mar 2008
Unemployment durations are determined by a number of factors. According to mainstream economics theory, unemployment durations are shorter in a more flexible labour market. In this paper, the...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Work Disability, Work, And Justification Bias In Europe And The U.S.
Aug 2009
To analyze the effect of health on work, many studies use a simple self-assessed health measure based upon a question such as "Do you have an impairment or health problem limiting the kind or...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Estimating The Employer Switching Costs And Wage Responses Of Forward-Looking Engineers
Sep 2009
The authors estimate the relative magnitudes of worker switching costs and how much the employer switching of experienced engineers responds to outside wage offers. Institutional features imply...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Liquidity, Activity, Mortality
Sep 2009
The authors document a within-month mortality cycle where deaths decline before the 1st day of the month and then spike after the 1st. This cycle is present across a wide variety of causes and...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Employment, Exchange Rates And Labour Market Rigidity
Feb 2010
There is increasing evidence that the interaction between shocks and labour market institutions is crucial to understanding the dynamics of employment. In this paper, the authors show that the...
Provided by Grupo de Estudos Monetários e Financeiros
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Mismatch In The Labor Market: Measuring The Supply Of And Demand For Skilled Labor In New England
Nov 2010
Over the past decade, policymakers and business leaders across New England have been concerned that the region's slower population growth and loss of residents to other parts of the country will...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
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Public Pensions And Labor Supply Over The Life Cycle
Aug 2010
Virtually all developed countries face projected budget shortfalls for their public pension programs. The shortfalls arise for two reasons. First, populations in developed countries are aging...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
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Firm Entry And Labor Market Dynamics
Aug 2008
The authors present a model of aggregate fluctuations in which monopolistic firms face sunk costs to enter the production process and labor markets are characterized by search and matching...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
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Technology Shocks, Employment, And Labor Market Frictions
Feb 2008
Recent empirical evidence suggests that a positive technology shock leads to a decline in labor inputs. However, the standard real business cycle model fails to account for this empirical...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
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Employer Monopsony Power In The Labor Market For Undocumented Workers
Apr 2009
Using matched employer-employee data from the state of Georgia, this paper investigates the potential for employer monophony power in the labor market for undocumented workers. The authors find...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
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Why Does Unemployment Hurt The Employed? Evidence From The Life Satisfaction Gap Between The Public And Private Sectors
Mar 2008
High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population in terms of reduced subjective well-being. This paper studies the importance of individual economic security, in...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
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Jobs In Springfield, Massachusetts: Understanding And Remedying The Causes Of Low Resident Employment Rates
Feb 2010
As part of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston's commitment to supporting efforts to revitalize the economy of Springfield, Massachusetts, this paper explores the causes of and potential remedies...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
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Identifying Government Spending Shocks: It~s All In The Timing
Oct 2009
Do shocks to government spending raise or lower consumption and real wages? Standard VAR identification approaches show a rise in these variables, whereas the Ramey-Shapiro narrative...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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The Impact Of Minimum Wage Rates On Body Weight In The United States
Nov 2009
Growing consumption of increasingly less expensive food, and especially "Fast food", has been cited as a potential cause of increasing rate of obesity in the United States over the past several...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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The Effect Of Immigration On Productivity: Evidence From US States
Nov 2009
Using the large variation in the inflow of immigrants across US states the authors analyze the impact of immigration on state employment, average hours worked, physical capital accumulation and,...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Do Working Men Rebel? Insurgency And Unemployment In Iraq And The Philippines
Dec 2010
Most aid spending by governments seeking to rebuild social and political order is based on an opportunity-cost theory of distracting potential recruits. The logic is that gainfully employed young...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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The Relative Utility Hypothesis With And Without Self-reported Reference Wages
Nov 2010
This paper uses survey data of 90,000 union employees working in 62 publicly traded companies in Japan between 1990 and 2004 to study the effect of both own and self-reported reference wages on...
Provided by Collegio Carlo Alberto
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Institutions And Performance In European Labour Markets: Taking A Fresh Look At Evidence
Nov 2009
This paper presents a selective survey of the recent literature on labor market institutions and offers new empirical EU-based evidence on the impact of labor market reforms on employment and...
Provided by European Communities
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Adjustment Capacity Of Labour Markets Of The Western Balkans, With A Focus On Labour Markets
Nov 2008
The main question addressed in this paper is the performance of the labor markets in the Western Balkans. The aim was to find out whether they can deliver growth of employment and decline of...
Provided by European Communities
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The Impact Of EMU On Growth And Employment
Apr 2008
This paper addresses and evaluates the impacts of the introduction of the euro on both actual and potential output and employment in the Euro Area. In order to achieve this, a descriptive and...
Provided by European Communities
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Adjustment In The Euro Area And Regulation Of Product And Labour Markets: An Empirical Assessment
Oct 2008
This paper analyses how price-competitiveness (measured by both real exchange rate and inflation differentials) adjusts with the euro area and what role labour and product market regulations can...
Provided by University of Chicago
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EU Labour Market Behaviour During The Great Recession
Feb 2010
This paper provides an analysis of the labour market adjustment to the 2008-2009 recession in terms of employment, unemployment, and hours worked and wages. It highlights differences in the...
Provided by European Union
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Health, Income, And The Timing Of Education Among Military Retirees
Feb 2010
There is a large and robust correlation between adult health and education, part of which likely reflects causality running from education into health. Less clear is whether education obtained...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Do Business Subsidies Facilitate Employment Growth?
Jan 2011
The authors use data from 15508 Finnish companies with 10 or more employees for the years 2003-2008 to explore the relationship between employment growth and three endogenously determined business...
Provided by ELINKEINOELÄMÄN TUTKIMUSLAITOS
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Education - A Job Market Signal?
Aug 2008
This paper reviews the theoretical and empirical literature on job market signaling and on education as a job market signal. Possible economic implications of educational job market signaling to...
Provided by ELINKEINOELÄMÄN TUTKIMUSLAITOS
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Public R&D Subsidies And Employment Growth - Microeconomic Evidence From Finnish Firms
Nov 2008
This paper empirically explores whether the public financial support for entrepreneurial R&D affects employment growth at the firm level. The data from the Finnish companies suggests that the...
Provided by ELINKEINOELÄMÄN TUTKIMUSLAITOS
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The Labour Market Consequences Of Selfemployment Spells: European Evidence
Mar 2008
The authors examine how those re-entering paid-employment after a brief self-employment spell fare upon return using data from the European Community Household Panel. Unconditionally, those...
Provided by University of Jyväskylä
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Does Foreign Presence Stimulate Creative Destruction In Local Markets?
Dec 2007
This paper studies the effect of Foreign-Owned Companies (FOCs) in the region on establishment survival and growth in the Finnish business sector. The authors analyze whether the presence of the...
Provided by ELINKEINOELÄMÄN TUTKIMUSLAITOS
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Discrete Choice Modelling Of Labour Supply In Luxembourg Through Euromod Microsimulation
Aug 2010
In this paper, the household labor supply is modeled as a discrete choice problem assuming that preference for leisure and consumption can be described by a quadratic utility function which allows...
Provided by University of Essex
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Automatic Stabilisers And Economic Crisis: US Vs Europe
Jun 2010
This paper analyzes the effectiveness of the tax and transfer systems in the European Union and the US to act as an automatic stabilizer in the current economic crisis. The authors find that...
Provided by Institute for the Study of Labor
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Response Bias In Job Satisfaction Surveys: English General Practitioners
Nov 2008
Job satisfaction may affect the propensity to respond to job satisfaction surveys, so that estimates of average satisfaction and the effects of determinants of satisfaction may be biased. The...
Provided by University of York
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Shareholders And Employees: Rent Transfer And Rent Sharing In Corporate Takeovers
Aug 2010
The introduction of the ideology of maximizing shareholder value and the rise of institutional investors in LMEs contributed to the development of an active MCC, which threatens managers with...
Provided by University of York
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Estimation Of Alternative Models Of Female Labour Supply With Fixed Travel Costs
Jun 2010
The authors formalize the joint choice of labor force participation and mode of travel to work together with the hours of work decision for unitary and collective households. Conditioning on the...
Provided by University of York
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Contemplative Dimensions Of Human Experience
Apr 2009
In a mind-stretching talk covering the history of the planet, development of higher-order consciousness, and East-West religious practices, the author claims that humanity is poised to take its...
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Blended Learning Revisited
Mar 2010
Even when children are high achievers and facile with new technology, many seem gradually to lose their sense of wonder and curiosity, notes by one of the authors. Traditional educational methods...
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Is There Surplus Labor In Rural India?
Oct 2010
The authors show empirically using panel data at the plot and farm level and based on a model incorporating supervision costs, risk, credit-market imperfections and scale-economies associated with...
Provided by Yale University
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Understanding Sectoral Labor Market Dynamics: An Equilibrium Analysis Of The Oil And Gas Field Services Industry
Mar 2008
This paper examines the response of employment and wages in the US oil and gas field services industry to changes in the price of crude petroleum using a time series of quarterly data spanning the...
Provided by Yale University
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Country Patterns Of Behavior On Broader Dimensions Of Human Development
Nov 2007
This paper adopts a more expansive definition of Human Development than that encompassed by the Human Development Index in order to explore diverse country patterns of behavior in relation to...
Provided by Yale University
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Economics, Area Studies And Human Development
Jul 2009
This paper suggests that area studies and economics have a better chance to be married successfully if the authors shift the attention from the exclusive emphasis on economic growth towards...
Provided by Yale University
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A Dynamic Analysis Of Human Welfare In A Warming Planet
Aug 2008
Anthropogenic Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions have caused atmospheric concentrations with no precedents in the last half a million years, inducing serious uncertainties about future climates and...
Provided by Yale University
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Understanding Sectoral Labor Market Dynamics: An Equilibrium Analysis Of The Oil And Gas Field Services
Mar 2008
This paper examines the response of employment and wages in the US oil and gas field services industry to changes in the price of crude petroleum using a time series of quarterly data spanning the...
Provided by Yale University
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White Papers
Migration Flows And Labour Market In Poland
Nov 2007
In the paper temporary migration flows are analyzed in conjunction with information on labour market gross flows. Gross migration flows were calculated on the base of the household survey that is...
Provided by National Bank of Poland
-
White Papers
The Evolution Of Bargaining Under Austerity: Political Change In Contemporary French And German Labor-Market Reform
Oct 2007
This paper examines the relationship among economic context, political institutions, and the political dynamics of adjustment within national models of capitalism through an analysis of recent...
Provided by EconStor
-
White Papers
Employee Voice And Human Resource Management: An Empirical Analysis Using British Data
Jul 2007
Using British workplace data the authors examine the relationship between Human Resource Management (HRM) and different forms of employee voice. After controlling for observable establishment...
Provided by University of Westminster
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White Papers
Employment Effects Under Planned Changes To The EPA's Air Pollution Rules
Feb 2011
The U.S. electric power sector is changing and modernizing in response to societal and market forces. Power companies face a business imperative to meet increasing pressures for cleaner, more...
Provided by University of Massachusetts
-
White Papers
Sudden Stops, Financial Frictions, And Labor Market Flows: Evidence From Latin America
Aug 2010
Sudden stops and international financial crises have been a main feature of developing countries in the last three decades. While their aggregate effects are well known, the disaggregated channels...
Provided by Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
-
White Papers
Rethinking The Effects Of Immigration On Wages
May 2008
This paper asks the following question: what was the effect of surging immigration on average and individual wages of U.S.-born workers during the period 1990-2004? The authors emphasize the need...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
-
White Papers
Firms' Reactions To The Crisis And Their Consequences For The Labour Market. Results Of A Company Survey Conducted In Austria
Dec 2010
This paper is based on the results of two company surveys - the first was conducted in 2007, before the recession 2008/2009 hit Austria, and the second was conducted in 2009 shortly after the...
Provided by Oesterreichische Nationalbank
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White Papers
Children Of Immigrants In The Labour Markets Of EU And OECD Countries
Oct 2009
This paper provides a first comparative overview of the presence and outcomes of the children of immigrants in the labour markets of OECD countries, based on a collection of data from 16 OECD...
Provided by OECD
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White Papers
Labour Market Integration In Norway
Sep 2009
In the context of longstanding and significant differences between the labour market outcomes of the native-born and immigrants, the labour market integration of immigrants has been a key policy...
Provided by OECD
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White Papers
Assessing The Impact Of Labour Market Policies On Productivity: A Difference-In-Differences Approach
Jun 2007
The impact of four labour market policies - employment protection legislation, minimum wages, parental leave and unemployment benefits - on productivity is examined here, using annual...
Provided by OECD
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White Papers
How Does Academic Ability Affect Educational And Labour Market Pathways In Canada
Feb 2010
Using data from the Youth in Transition Survey (YITS), this paper provides an up-to-date description of educational and labour market pathways (or transitions) among Canadian youth. It also...
Provided by OECD
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White Papers
Do Wage Subsidies Affect The Subsequent Employment Stability Of Permanent Workers?: The Case Of Spain
Apr 2010
This paper studies how job creation subsidies designed for several Spanish regional governments to foster the creation of new permanent contracts during the period 1997-2004 might affect the...
Provided by Universidad Pablo de Olavide
-
White Papers
Unions, Monetary Shocks And The Labour Market Cycle
Jan 2010
This paper provides a new growth model by considering strategic behaviour in the supply of labour. Workers form a labour union with the aim of manipulating wages in their own benefit. The authors...
Provided by University of the Basque Country
-
White Papers
Alternative Ways Of Measuring And Interpreting Worker Flows
Jul 2009
The present paper provides empirical evidence compatible with a proposed theoretical framework to explain the joint determination of two components of worker flows: worker replacement and job...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
-
White Papers
Transitional Labour Markets, From Theory To Policyapplication. Transitional Labour Markets And Flexicurity : Managing Social Risks Over The Lifecourse
Nov 2009
This paper presents a conceptual approach related to the European flexicurity debate, the Transitional Labour Market (TLM) theory and its main assumptions. The aim is to bring this analytic...
Provided by Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe
-
White Papers
Unemployment And Relative Labor Market Institutions Between Trading Partners
Dec 2010
After New Zealand initiated inflation targeting in 1990, a large number of industrial and emerging countries have explicitly adopted an inflation target as their nominal anchor. In the last two...
Provided by Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe
-
White Papers
A Taxonomy Of European Labour Markets Using Quality Indicators
May 2008
The paper proposes a critical approach of European job quality indicators. It relies on both theoretical and empirical analysis, and shows the necessity to introduce complementary variables, such...
Provided by Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe
-
White Papers
Dynamical Equilibrium, Trajectories Study In An Economical System. The Case Of The Labor Market
Jul 2007
The paper deals with the study of labor market dynamics, and aims to characterize its equilibriums and possible trajectories. The theoretical background is the theory of the segmented labor...
Provided by Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe
-
White Papers
Labour And Employment In A Globalising World
Oct 2010
Recent transformations in work and employment in developed countries may well be reproducing situations once typical of the developing world. Flexibility and corporate decision-making autonomy,...
Provided by Université Paris Dauphine
-
White Papers
Interaction Between Underground Employment And Unions In Selected Italian Industries
Jul 2008
In this paper the authors investigated empirically the nature of the relation between underground employment and unions in Italy, focusing on certain productive sectors. The motivation for this...
Provided by Università degli Studi di Napoli "Parthenope"
-
White Papers
« The Scarring Effect Of Unemployment In Ten European Countries : An Analysis Based On The ECHP »
Apr 2011
This paper investigates the effect of unemployment on earnings for ten European countries. Using a harmonised database (ECHP), the authors estimate the impact of declared unemployment on...
Provided by University Nancy
-
White Papers
Private Information, Wage Bargaining And Employment Fluctuations
Jul 2007
Shimer (2005) pointed out that although the authors have a satisfactory theory of why some workers are unemployed at any given time, they don't know why the number of unemployed workers varies so...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
-
White Papers
The Labor Market Of Italian Politicians Second Version
May 2009
Like voters (the represented), politicians (the representees) are the heart and soul of representative democracy. But isn't being a politician just like any other job? After the authors get past...
Provided by University of Pennsylvania
-
White Papers
Resource Management And Transition In Central Asia, Azerbaijan, And Mongolia
Mar 2011
The paper presents a comparative analysis of the resource-rich transition economies of Mongolia and the southern republics of the former Soviet Union. For Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, the ability...
Provided by Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics
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White Papers
Labour Incentive Schemes In A Cournot Duopoly With Simple Institutional Constraints
Sep 2010
This paper studies equilibrium incentive contracts in a Cournot duopoly, in which institutional arrangements constrain firms to pay (risk-neutral) workers a given salary. In this context,...
Provided by University of Pisa
-
White Papers
From Wage Rigidities To Labour Market Rigidities: A Turning-Point In Explaining Equilibrium Unemployment?
Nov 2009
This paper offers a critical discussion of the concept of labour market rigidity relevant to explaining unemployment. Starting from Keynes's own view, the authors discuss how the concept of labour...
Provided by University of Pisa
-
White Papers
Social Capital And The Labour Market
Jan 2008
The main question of this paper is: what type of social capital is able to mitigate labour precariousness and to foster human development? This issue has been addressed through a review of the...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
-
White Papers
SME Fringe Benefits Provision
Mar 2011
The aim of this paper is to inform the reader about the distribution of fringe benefits provided to employees by firms in 10 provinces of Vietnam. Five types of benefits are considered: Annual...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
-
White Papers
Unemployment Durations After Temporary Work: Evidence For Great Britain And Germany
Mar 2008
Unemployment durations are determined by a number of factors. According to mainstream economics theory, unemployment durations are shorter in a more flexible labour market. In this paper, the...
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Historical Examination Of The Golden Age Of Full Employment In Western Europe
Aug 2010
The main purpose of this paper is to review the lessons of the "Golden Age" with respect to establishing and maintaining full employment in advanced countries. The golden age, generally regarded...
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Labor Market Adjustment To Globalization: Long-Term Employment In The United States And Japan
Sep 2007
The increasing globalization of production and trade in the last 25 years has required substantial adjustment of employment relationships in the United States and Japan. Worker attachment to firms...
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The Elasticity Of Labor Supply At The Establishment Level
Dec 2008
Monopsonistic wage-setting power requires that the supply of labor directed toward individual establishments is upward sloping. This paper utilizes institutional features to identify the supply...
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Monopsony And Labor Supply In The Army And Navy
Dec 2008
Because it is differentiated from other employers, the U.S. military enjoys some monopsony power. After reviewing existing estimates of the elasticity of labor supplied to the military, the...
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Estimating The Firm~s Labor Supply Curve In A "New Monopsony" Framework: School Teachers In Missouri
Dec 2008
In the context of certain dynamic models of monopsony, it is possible to infer the elasticity of labor supply to the firm from the elasticity of the quit rate with respect to the wage. Using this...
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Is There Monopsony In The Labor Market? Evidence From A Natural Experiment
Dec 2008
A variety of recent theoretical and empirical advances have renewed interest in monopsonistic models of the labor market. However, there is little direct empirical support for these models, even...
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Modern Models Of Monopsony In Labor Markets: A Brief Survey
Apr 2010
There has been a renewed interest in monopsony in labor markets in recent years that includes both the traditional static approach to monopsony, ably reviewed by Boal and Ransom (1997) and the...
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Trade Liberalization And Labor Market Dynamics
Nov 2010
This paper studies trade-induced transitional dynamics by estimating a structural dynamic equilibrium model of the labor market. The model features a multi-sector economy with overlapping...
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Did Active Labour Market Policies Help Sweden Rebound From The Depression Of The Early 1990s?
Mar 2008
In the early 1990s the Swedish labour market was hit by the worst shock it experienced since the 1930s, with the unemployment rate rising to 10 percent. This development stands out in light of...
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Demographic Change, Institutional Settings, And Labor Supply
Jul 2007
The authors analyze cross-country panel data to examine the effect of key institutional features of social security systems on male labor supply. The findings indicate that the labor supply of...
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Links Between Literacy And Numeracy Skills And Labour Market Outcomes
Aug 2010
Governments in Australia are interested in ways to improve human capital. For example, improving human capital is a key stream of the Council Of Australian Government's (COAG's) National Reform...
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