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On The Economic Architecture Of The Workplace: Repercussions Of Social Comparisons Among Heterogeneous Workers
Feb 2011
The authors analyze the impact on a firm's profits and optimal wage rates, and on the distribution of workers' earnings, when workers compare their earnings with those of co-workers. They consider...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Social Networks And Labor Market Entry Barriers: Understanding Inter-Industrial Wage Differentials In Urban China
Sep 2009
An entry barrier in the labor market can be an important source of wage inequality. This paper finds that social networks, father's education and political status, and urban household registration...
Provided by Hitotsubashi University
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Early Labour Market Returns To College Subjects
Apr 2008
This paper aims at estimating early labour market outcomes of Italian university graduates across college subjects. The authors devote great attention to endogenous selection issues using...
Provided by University of Aarhus
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Employment Growth and International Trade: A Small Open Economy Perspective
May 2009
In this paper, the authors use a detailed dataset containing information about all international trade transactions of the population of Danish firms over more than a decade to analyze the...
Provided by Aarhus School of Business
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Looking Beyond The Bridge: How Temporary Agency Employment Affects Labor Market Outcomes
May 2010
The authors perform a comprehensive analysis of the stepping-stone effect of temporary agency employment on unemployed workers. Using the timing-of-events approach, they not only investigate...
Provided by Aarhus School of Business
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Hysteresis In Unemployment: Old And New Evidence
Mar 2009
This paper argues that hysteresis helps explain the long-run behavior of unemployment. The natural rate of unemployment is influenced by the path of actual unemployment, and hence by shifts in...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Exploring Differences In Employment Between Household And Establishment Data
Mar 2009
Using a large data set that links individual Current Population Survey (CPS) records to employer-reported administrative data, the authors document substantial discrepancies in basic measures of...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Large Employers Are More Cyclically Sensitive
Feb 2009
The authors provide new evidence that large firms or establishments are more sensitive than small ones to business cycle conditions. Larger employers shed proportionally more jobs in recessions...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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The Economics And Psychology Of Inequality And Human Development
Jan 2009
Recent research on the economics of human development deepens understanding of the origins of inequality and excellence. It draws on and contributes to personality psychology and the psychology of...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Unemployment, Market Work And Household Production
Jan 2009
Using time-diary data from four countries the authors show that the unemployed spend most of the time not working for pay in additional leisure and personal maintenance, not in increased household...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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This Job Is 'Getting Old:' Measuring Changes In Job Opportunities Using Occupational Age
Jan 2009
High- and low-wage occupations are expanding rapidly relative to middle-wage occupations in both the U.S. and the E.U. The authors study the reallocation of workers from middle-skill occupations...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Do Bequests Increase Or Decrease Wealth Inequalities?
Jan 2009
This paper finds that individuals in Japan do not leave very significant bequests, that parents often require a quid pro quo for bequests to their children, and that wealthier individuals leave...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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No Education, No Good Jobs? Evidence On The Relationship Between Education And Labor Market Segmentation
Oct 2007
This paper assesses labor market segmentation across formal and informal salaried jobs and self-employment in three Latin American and three transition countries. It looks separately at the...
Provided by Inter-American Development Bank
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An Experimental Study Of Labor Market Discrimination: Gender, Social Class And Neighborhood In Chile
May 2008
The objective of this paper is to study the Chilean labor market and determine the presence or absence of gender discrimination. In order to transcend the limitations of earlier works, an...
Provided by Inter-American Development Bank
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Revisiting Labour And Gender Issues In Export Processing Zones: The Cases Of South Korea, Bangladesh And India
Oct 2008
The establishment of Export Processing Zones (EPZs) is a strategy for economic development that was introduced almost fifty years ago and is nowadays employed in a large number of countries. While...
Provided by Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO)
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Chronically Dissatisfied: Work Characteristics, Personal Expectations And Job Satisfaction: Empirical Evidence In Young Italian Workers
Jan 2011
Job satisfaction is the degree to which people like their jobs. Companies are interested in job satisfaction of their employees, because it is positively correlated with certain desired outcomes...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Employment Growth Of New Firms
Jan 2008
This paper analyses the association between dynamic capabilities and new firm growth, controlling for measures of firm resources, characteristics of the entrepreneur, and aspects of the...
Provided by Friedrich Schiller University of Jena
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Going On The Long Race? - Employment Duration And (De)Regulation Of Experimental Stochastic Labor Markets -
Sep 2009
If the future market wage is uncertain, engaging in long-term employment is risky, with the risk depending on how regulated the labor market is. In the experiment long-term employment can result...
Provided by Friedrich Schiller University of Jena
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Happiness Adaptation To Income beyond "Basic Needs"
Dec 2008
The authors test for whether, once "Basic needs" are satisfied, there is happiness adaptation to further gains in income using three data sets. Individual German Panel Data from 1985-2000, and...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Top Wage Incomes In Japan, 1951-2005
Dec 2008
Using wage income tax statistics, the authors construct continuous series of upper wage income shares in Japan from 1951 to 2005 to document the evolution of top wage incomes and investigate their...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Heights And Human Welfare: Recent Developments And New Directions
Jan 2009
Since 1995 approximately 325 publications on stature have appeared in the social sciences, which is more than a four-fold increase in the rate of production relative to the period 1977-1994. The...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Dynamic Globalization And Its Potentially Alarming Prospects For Low-Wage Workers
Dec 2008
Will incomes of low and high skilled workers continue to diverge? Yes says the paper's dynamic, six-good, five-region - U.S., Europe, N.E. Asia (Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong), China, and India...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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A Depressing Scenario: Mortgage Debt Becomes Unemployment Insurance
Nov 2008
When asset values fall, the owners of collateralized loans are not in an enviable position. Nonetheless, they possess a kind of monopoly power over their borrowers that they do not possess when...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Inequality And Unemployment In A Global Economy
Nov 2008
This paper develops a new framework for examining the distributional consequences of trade liberalization that is consistent with increasing inequality in every country, growth in residual wage...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Work Expectations, Realizations, And Depression In Older Workers
Oct 2008
The authors explore the impact on depressive symptoms of deviation in actual labor force behavior at age 62 from earlier expectations. The sample of 4,241 observations is drawn from the Health and...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Fooling Some Of The People All Of The Time: The Inefficient Performance And Persistence Of Commodity Trading Advisors
Oct 2008
Investors face significant barriers in evaluating the performance of hedge funds and Commodity Trading Advisors (CTAs). The only available performance data comes from voluntary reporting to...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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The Limited Partnership In New York, 1822-1853: Partnerships Without Kinship
Oct 2008
In 1822, New York became the first common-law state to authorize the formation of limited partnerships, and over the ensuing decades, many other states followed. Most prior research has suggested...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Labor Market Entry And Earnings Dynamics: Bayesian Inference Using Mixtures-Of-Experts Markov Chain Clustering
Nov 2010
This paper analyzes patterns in the earnings development of young labor market entrants over their life cycle. The authors identify four distinctly different types of transition patterns between...
Provided by Johannes Kepler University of Linz
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Layoff Tax And The Employment Of The Elderly
Nov 2008
In 1996 Austria introduced a tax for the layoff of older workers, which was tightened in 2000. The regulation requires employers to pay a tax of up to 170 percent of the gross monthly income when...
Provided by Johannes Kepler University Linz
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The Value Of A Statistical Injury: New Evidence From The Swiss Labor Market
Sep 2009
The authors' study the monetary compensation for non-fatal accident risk in Switzerland using the number of accidents within cells defined over industry skill-level of the job and capitalizing on...
Provided by University of Zurich
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Mandatory Sick Pay Provision: A Labor Market Experiment
Mar 2010
Sick-pay is a common provision in labor contracts. It insures workers against a sudden loss of income due to unexpected absences and helps them smooth consumption. Therefore, many governments find...
Provided by Heidelberg University
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Do You Think Your Risk Is Fair Paid? Evidence From Italian Labor Market
Feb 2009
Starting from Adam Smith's intuition, compensating wage differentials are one of the most widespread explanations to describe why agents should bear occupational risk of injury and death. For...
Provided by University of Calabria
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The (Long) Run Out Of Unemployment Are Temporary Jobs The Shortest Way?
Apr 2008
A higher job creation is a common result by many theoretical approaches trying to model marginal labor market reforms. In the frame-work proposed by Berton and Garibaldi [2006], in particular, the...
Provided by Laboratorio Riccardo Revelli
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Labour Market And Unemployment In Sudan
Jan 2011
This paper examines the structure of labour market and unemployment in Sudan. One advantage of the analysis in this paper is that the authors explain several stylized facts on labour market using...
Provided by United Nations University
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Human Resource Management And Learning For Innovation: Pharmaceuticals In Mexico
Jan 2010
This paper investigates the influence of human resource management on learning from internal and external sources of knowledge. Learning for innovation is a key ingredient of catching-up...
Provided by United Nations University
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The Demographics Of Fund Turnover
Feb 2011
This paper documents various demographic factors which influence mutual fund turnover including managerial experience, location, education, and gender. On average, funds in financial centers trade...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Active Labor Market Policy By A Profit Maximizing Firm
Aug 2010
This paper investigates the effectiveness of an employment program exclusively run by and in a private sector firm, in order to find out whether a private program without cream-skimming can be...
Provided by Maastricht University
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Real Wage Inequality
Apr 2010
A large literature has documented a significant increase in the difference between the wage of college graduates and high school graduates over the past 30 years. The author shows that from 1980...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Simple Humans, Complex Insurance, Subtle Subsidies
Sep 2008
The behavioral revolution in economics has demonstrated that human beings often have difficulty making wise choices. The most widely chronicled difficulties arise for decisions made under...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Wage Formation Between Newly Hired Workers And Employers: Survey Evidence
Sep 2008
Some workers bargain with prospective employers before accepting a job. Others could bargain, but find it undesirable, because their right to bargain has induced a sufficiently favorable offer,...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Private Deception And The Rise Of Public Employment Offices In The United States, 1890 - 1930
Sep 2008
At the turn of the 20th century, state and local governments in the United States began to establish public employment offices. These non-profit governmental organizations match job seekers and...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Parental Leave Policies And Parents Employment And Leave-taking
Dec 2007
Utilizing data from the June Current Population Survey (CPS) Fertility Supplement merged with data from other months of the CPS, the authors describe trends in parents' employment and leave-taking...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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The Impact Of Immigration On The Labour Market Outcomes Of New Zealanders
Apr 2009
This paper uses data from the 1996, 2001 and 2006 New Zealand Census to examine how the supply of immigrants in particular skill-groups affects the employment and wages of the New Zealand-born and...
Provided by MOTU
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The Impact Of Globalisation With Rigid Labour Markets
Aug 2007
The public debate reveals that people are unsettled about the impact of the current globalisation wave. News about job losses fuels this unrest regularly. It is a matter of fact that firms...
Provided by University of Munich
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The Employment Cycles Of Neighboring Cities
Mar 2011
This paper examines the spatial interaction of neighboring cities over their employment cycles. The cycles of neighboring cities tend to be more similar to one another than are those of...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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The Effect Of Hours Of Work On Social Interaction
Jan 2008
Over time, increases in hours of work per capita have created the intuitively plausible notion that there is less time available to pursue social interactions. The specific question addressed in...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Minimally Altruistic Wages And Unemployment In A Matching Model
Jan 2008
This paper presents a model in which firms recruit both unemployed and employed workers by posting vacancies. Firms act monopsonistically and set wages to retain their existing workers as well as...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Search And Rest Unemployment
Feb 2008
This paper extends Lucas and Prescott's (1974) search model to develop a notion of rest unemployment. The economy consists of a continuum of labor markets, each of which produces a heterogeneous...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Marginal Jobs, Heterogeneous Firms, & Unemployment Flows
Jan 2011
This paper introduces a notion of fir m size into a search and matching model with endogenous job destruction. The outcome is a rich, yet analytically tractable framework that can be used to...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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I'd Rather Be Hanged For A Sheep Than A Lamb: The Unintended Consequences Of 'Three-Strikes' Laws
Feb 2008
Strong sentences are common "Tough on crime" tool used to reduce the incentives for individuals to participate in criminal activity. However, the design of such policies often ignores other...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Where Is Full Employment?
Oct 2007
Unemployment in Australia is now at its lowest in over 30 years. The rate for April 2007, for example, of 4.4 per cent, is substantially less than the previous trough of 5.6 per cent, in 1989....
Provided by University of Melbourne
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Quality Of Life In The Regions: An Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis For West German Labor Markets
Oct 2008
Which of Germanys regions is the most attractive? Where is it best to live and work - on objective grounds? These questions are summed up in the concept "Quality of life". This paper uses recent...
Provided by Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät Münster
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The Human Development Index As A Criterion For Optimal Planning
May 2008
Planning strategies that maximize the Human Development Index (HDI) tend towards minimizing consumption and maximizing non-investment expenditures on education and health. Interestingly, such...
Provided by University of Melbourne
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The Increase In Leisure Inequality
Mar 2008
This paper examines the changing allocation of time within the United States that has occurred between 1965 and 2003-2005. The authors find that the time individuals have allocated to leisure has...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Does Temporary Help Work Provide A Stepping Stone To Regular Employment?
Mar 2008
Based on administrative data from the federal employment services in Germany, this paper applies statistical matching techniques to estimate the stepping-stone function to regular employment of...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Does Mentoring Reduce Turnover And Improve Skills Of New Employees? Evidence From Teachers In New York City
Mar 2008
Mentoring has become an extremely popular policy for improving the retention and performance of new teachers, but the authors know little about its effects on teacher and student outcomes. The...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Imperfect Substitution Between Immigrants And Natives: A Reappraisal
Mar 2008
In a recent paper, Ottaviano and Peri (2007a) report evidence that immigrant and native workers are not perfect substitutes within narrowly defined skill groups. The resulting complementarities...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Labor Markets And Monetary Policy: A New-keynesian Model With Unemployment
Mar 2008
The authors construct a utility-based model of fluctuations, with nominal rigidities and unemployment, and draw its implications for the unemployment-inflation tradeoff and for the conduct of...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Do Labor Intensive Industries Generate Employment? Evidence From Firm Level Survey In India
Jun 2009
This paper attempts to address the issue of declining labour intensity in India's organized manufacturing in order to understand the constraints on employment generation in the labour intensive...
Provided by Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations
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The Employment Potential Of Labor Intensive Industries In India's Organized Manufacturing
Jun 2009
This paper attempts to identify and examine labor intensive industries in the organized manufacturing sector in India in order to understand their employment generation potential. Using the data...
Provided by Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations
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The Employed, The Unemployed, And The Unemployable: Directed Search With Worker Heterogeneity
Mar 2010
The authors examine the implications of worker heterogeneity on the equilibrium matching process, using a directed search model. Worker abilities are selected from a general distribution, subject...
Provided by University of Melbourne
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Maximizing Human Development
Oct 2010
The Human Development Index (HDI) is widely used as an aggregate measure of overall human well being. The authors examine the allocations implied by the maximization of this index, using a...
Provided by University of Melbourne
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Manage ~Human Capital~ Strategically
Apr 2011
Education is a people-intensive proposition. By most estimates, 85% of school and district budgets are devoted to salaries and benefits, a figure that means that the manner in which leaders...
Provided by Editorial Projects in Education
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Population Aging, Older Workers, And Canada~s Labour Force
Sep 2009
The Expert Panel on Older Workers made recommendations designed to increase the labour force participation of older workers. The authors explore the implications that higher rates of older-worker...
Provided by McMaster University
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Innocents Abroad: The Hazards Of International Joint Ventures With Pyramidal Group Firms
Apr 2008
The fundamental unit of production in microeconomics is the firm, and this mirrors reality in the United States and United Kingdom. But elsewhere, business groups can be the more important unit,...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Moral Hazard Vs. Liquidity And Optimal Unemployment Insurance
Apr 2008
This paper presents new evidence on why Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefits affect search behavior and develops a simple method of calculating the welfare gains from UI using this evidence. The...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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The Impact Of Employment During School On College Student Academic Performance
May 2008
This paper estimates the effect of paid employment on grades of full-time, four-year students from four nationally representative cross sections of the Harvard College Alcohol Study administered...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Searching For Optimal Inequality/Incentives
May 2008
This paper examines the evolution of economic inequality in Sweden before, during and after the major macro-economic recession in the early 1990s. Earnings and income inequality increased after...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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The Macroeconomic Implications Of Rising Wage Inequality In The United States
Jun 2008
In recent decades, the US wage structure has been transformed by a rising college premium, a narrowing gender gap, and increasing persistent and transitory residual wage dispersion. This paper...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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The Evolution Of The Labor Market and Leisure Industries In Spain: Quality Of Life Versus Standard Of Living
Jun 2008
The authors discuss the effects that the emergence of the new post-industrial form of flexible capitalist organization has on the Spanish labor market and, by extension, on the working life of two...
Provided by Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
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The History Of Manpower Forecasting In Modelling Labour Market
Jun 2008
The Manpower Forecasting Approach (MFA) was one of the first attempts in educational planning purposes. Manpower planners attempted: to calculate the demand for manpower classified by occupation;...
Provided by Università di Macerata
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Matching Higher Education And Labour Market In The Knowledge Economy: The Much Needed Reform Of University Governance In Italy
Jun 2010
In the knowledge economy and current public finance constraints, matching higher education and labour market is not one of the main issues in higher education policy sustainability: it is "The...
Provided by Università di Macerata
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Immigration And National Wages: Clarifying The Theory And The Empirics
Jul 2008
This paper estimates the effects of immigration on wages of native workers at the national U.S. level. Following Borjas (2003) the authors focus on national labor markets for workers of different...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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What~s A Recession, Anyway?
Aug 2008
Monthly US data on payroll employment, civilian employment, industrial production and the unemployment rate are used to define a recession-dating algorithm that nearly perfectly reproduces the...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Shared Capitalism In The U.S. Economy? Prevalence, Characteristics, And Employee Views Of Financial Participation In Enterprises
Aug 2008
Between one-third and one-half of employees participate directly in company performance through profit sharing, gainsharing, employee ownership, or stock options. This flies in the face of...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Worker Responses To Shirking Under Shared Capitalism
Aug 2008
Group incentive systems have to overcome the free rider or 1/N problem, which gives workers an incentive to shirk, if they are to succeed. This paper uses new questions on responses to shirking...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Do Workers Gain By Sharing? Employee Outcomes Under Employee Ownership, Profit Sharing, And Broad-based Stock Options
Aug 2008
This paper examines how shared capitalism compensation systems - those that link employee pay to company performance - affect diverse employee outcomes. It uses two data sets: the national GSS...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Who Has A Better Idea? Innovation, Shared Capitalism, And HR Policies
Aug 2008
The authors investigate the relationship of "Shared capitalist" compensation systems - profit/gainsharing, employee ownership, and stock options - to the culture for innovation and employees'...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Does Employee Ignorance Undermine Shared Capitalism?
Aug 2008
The potential of shared capitalism to improve individual and organizational performance through financial incentives depends on employees knowing about and participating in compensation plans that...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Human Resource Management Practices And Learning For Innovation In Developing Countries
Dec 2010
The use of the systems of innovation framework to study learning and innovation dates back to the mid-1980s (Freeman 2002; Lundvall et al., 2002). The most immediate roots trace back to three...
Provided by Maastricht University
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Chronically Dissatisfied: Work Characteristics, Personal Expectations And Job Satisfaction: Empirical Evidence In Young Italian Workers
Jan 2011
Job satisfaction is the degree to which people like their jobs. Companies are interested in job satisfaction of their employees, because it is positively correlated with certain desired outcomes...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Employment Growth Of New Firms
Jan 2008
This paper analyses the association between dynamic capabilities and new firm growth, controlling for measures of firm resources, characteristics of the entrepreneur, and aspects of the...
Provided by Friedrich Schiller University of Jena
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Going On The Long Race? - Employment Duration And (De)Regulation Of Experimental Stochastic Labor Markets -
Sep 2009
If the future market wage is uncertain, engaging in long-term employment is risky, with the risk depending on how regulated the labor market is. In the experiment long-term employment can result...
Provided by Friedrich Schiller University of Jena
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Happiness Adaptation To Income beyond "Basic Needs"
Dec 2008
The authors test for whether, once "Basic needs" are satisfied, there is happiness adaptation to further gains in income using three data sets. Individual German Panel Data from 1985-2000, and...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Top Wage Incomes In Japan, 1951-2005
Dec 2008
Using wage income tax statistics, the authors construct continuous series of upper wage income shares in Japan from 1951 to 2005 to document the evolution of top wage incomes and investigate their...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
Heights And Human Welfare: Recent Developments And New Directions
Jan 2009
Since 1995 approximately 325 publications on stature have appeared in the social sciences, which is more than a four-fold increase in the rate of production relative to the period 1977-1994. The...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
Dynamic Globalization And Its Potentially Alarming Prospects For Low-Wage Workers
Dec 2008
Will incomes of low and high skilled workers continue to diverge? Yes says the paper's dynamic, six-good, five-region - U.S., Europe, N.E. Asia (Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong), China, and India...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
A Depressing Scenario: Mortgage Debt Becomes Unemployment Insurance
Nov 2008
When asset values fall, the owners of collateralized loans are not in an enviable position. Nonetheless, they possess a kind of monopoly power over their borrowers that they do not possess when...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
Inequality And Unemployment In A Global Economy
Nov 2008
This paper develops a new framework for examining the distributional consequences of trade liberalization that is consistent with increasing inequality in every country, growth in residual wage...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
Work Expectations, Realizations, And Depression In Older Workers
Oct 2008
The authors explore the impact on depressive symptoms of deviation in actual labor force behavior at age 62 from earlier expectations. The sample of 4,241 observations is drawn from the Health and...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Fooling Some Of The People All Of The Time: The Inefficient Performance And Persistence Of Commodity Trading Advisors
Oct 2008
Investors face significant barriers in evaluating the performance of hedge funds and Commodity Trading Advisors (CTAs). The only available performance data comes from voluntary reporting to...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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The Limited Partnership In New York, 1822-1853: Partnerships Without Kinship
Oct 2008
In 1822, New York became the first common-law state to authorize the formation of limited partnerships, and over the ensuing decades, many other states followed. Most prior research has suggested...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Labor Market Entry And Earnings Dynamics: Bayesian Inference Using Mixtures-Of-Experts Markov Chain Clustering
Nov 2010
This paper analyzes patterns in the earnings development of young labor market entrants over their life cycle. The authors identify four distinctly different types of transition patterns between...
Provided by Johannes Kepler University of Linz
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Layoff Tax And The Employment Of The Elderly
Nov 2008
In 1996 Austria introduced a tax for the layoff of older workers, which was tightened in 2000. The regulation requires employers to pay a tax of up to 170 percent of the gross monthly income when...
Provided by Johannes Kepler University Linz
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White Papers
The Value Of A Statistical Injury: New Evidence From The Swiss Labor Market
Sep 2009
The authors' study the monetary compensation for non-fatal accident risk in Switzerland using the number of accidents within cells defined over industry skill-level of the job and capitalizing on...
Provided by University of Zurich
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White Papers
Mandatory Sick Pay Provision: A Labor Market Experiment
Mar 2010
Sick-pay is a common provision in labor contracts. It insures workers against a sudden loss of income due to unexpected absences and helps them smooth consumption. Therefore, many governments find...
Provided by Heidelberg University
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White Papers
Do You Think Your Risk Is Fair Paid? Evidence From Italian Labor Market
Feb 2009
Starting from Adam Smith's intuition, compensating wage differentials are one of the most widespread explanations to describe why agents should bear occupational risk of injury and death. For...
Provided by University of Calabria
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White Papers
The (Long) Run Out Of Unemployment Are Temporary Jobs The Shortest Way?
Apr 2008
A higher job creation is a common result by many theoretical approaches trying to model marginal labor market reforms. In the frame-work proposed by Berton and Garibaldi [2006], in particular, the...
Provided by Laboratorio Riccardo Revelli
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Labour Market And Unemployment In Sudan
Jan 2011
This paper examines the structure of labour market and unemployment in Sudan. One advantage of the analysis in this paper is that the authors explain several stylized facts on labour market using...
Provided by United Nations University
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Human Resource Management And Learning For Innovation: Pharmaceuticals In Mexico
Jan 2010
This paper investigates the influence of human resource management on learning from internal and external sources of knowledge. Learning for innovation is a key ingredient of catching-up...
Provided by United Nations University
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White Papers
The Demographics Of Fund Turnover
Feb 2011
This paper documents various demographic factors which influence mutual fund turnover including managerial experience, location, education, and gender. On average, funds in financial centers trade...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
Active Labor Market Policy By A Profit Maximizing Firm
Aug 2010
This paper investigates the effectiveness of an employment program exclusively run by and in a private sector firm, in order to find out whether a private program without cream-skimming can be...
Provided by Maastricht University
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Real Wage Inequality
Apr 2010
A large literature has documented a significant increase in the difference between the wage of college graduates and high school graduates over the past 30 years. The author shows that from 1980...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
Simple Humans, Complex Insurance, Subtle Subsidies
Sep 2008
The behavioral revolution in economics has demonstrated that human beings often have difficulty making wise choices. The most widely chronicled difficulties arise for decisions made under...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
Wage Formation Between Newly Hired Workers And Employers: Survey Evidence
Sep 2008
Some workers bargain with prospective employers before accepting a job. Others could bargain, but find it undesirable, because their right to bargain has induced a sufficiently favorable offer,...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Long-term Care Of The Disabled Elderly: Do Children Increase Caregiving By Spouses?
Sep 2008
Do adult children affect the care elderly parents provide each other? The authors develop two models in which the anticipated behavior of adult children provides incentives for elderly parents to...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Employment, Innovation, And Productivity: Evidence From Italian Microdata
Nov 2009
Italian manufacturing firms have been losing ground with respect to many of their European competitors. This paper presents some empirical evidence on the effects of innovation on employment...
Provided by United Nations University
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Is Inter-Firm Labor Mobility A Channel Of Knowledge Spillovers? Evidence From A Linked Employer-Employee Panel
Nov 2009
An employer-employee panel is used to study whether the movement of workers across firms is a channel of unintended diffusion of R&D-generated knowledge. Somewhat surprisingly, hiring workers from...
Provided by United Nations University
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An Evaluation Of The Forecast Of The Indicator Of The Labour Market Gap
Jul 2009
This evaluation study has been conducted within the framework of the Education and Labour Market Project (POA). The project is funded by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (OCW), the...
Provided by Maastricht University
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Human Resource Management Practices And Learning For Innovation In Developing Countries
Dec 2010
The use of the systems of innovation framework to study learning and innovation dates back to the mid-1980s (Freeman 2002; Lundvall et al., 2002). The most immediate roots trace back to three...
Provided by Maastricht University
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Does Employee Ignorance Undermine Shared Capitalism?
Aug 2008
The potential of shared capitalism to improve individual and organizational performance through financial incentives depends on employees knowing about and participating in compensation plans that...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Who Has A Better Idea? Innovation, Shared Capitalism, And HR Policies
Aug 2008
The authors investigate the relationship of "Shared capitalist" compensation systems - profit/gainsharing, employee ownership, and stock options - to the culture for innovation and employees'...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Do Workers Gain By Sharing? Employee Outcomes Under Employee Ownership, Profit Sharing, And Broad-based Stock Options
Aug 2008
This paper examines how shared capitalism compensation systems - those that link employee pay to company performance - affect diverse employee outcomes. It uses two data sets: the national GSS...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Worker Responses To Shirking Under Shared Capitalism
Aug 2008
Group incentive systems have to overcome the free rider or 1/N problem, which gives workers an incentive to shirk, if they are to succeed. This paper uses new questions on responses to shirking...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Shared Capitalism In The U.S. Economy? Prevalence, Characteristics, And Employee Views Of Financial Participation In Enterprises
Aug 2008
Between one-third and one-half of employees participate directly in company performance through profit sharing, gainsharing, employee ownership, or stock options. This flies in the face of...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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What~s A Recession, Anyway?
Aug 2008
Monthly US data on payroll employment, civilian employment, industrial production and the unemployment rate are used to define a recession-dating algorithm that nearly perfectly reproduces the...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Immigration And National Wages: Clarifying The Theory And The Empirics
Jul 2008
This paper estimates the effects of immigration on wages of native workers at the national U.S. level. Following Borjas (2003) the authors focus on national labor markets for workers of different...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Matching Higher Education And Labour Market In The Knowledge Economy: The Much Needed Reform Of University Governance In Italy
Jun 2010
In the knowledge economy and current public finance constraints, matching higher education and labour market is not one of the main issues in higher education policy sustainability: it is "The...
Provided by Università di Macerata
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The History Of Manpower Forecasting In Modelling Labour Market
Jun 2008
The Manpower Forecasting Approach (MFA) was one of the first attempts in educational planning purposes. Manpower planners attempted: to calculate the demand for manpower classified by occupation;...
Provided by Università di Macerata
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The Evolution Of The Labor Market and Leisure Industries In Spain: Quality Of Life Versus Standard Of Living
Jun 2008
The authors discuss the effects that the emergence of the new post-industrial form of flexible capitalist organization has on the Spanish labor market and, by extension, on the working life of two...
Provided by Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
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