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Reassessing The Ins And Outs Of Unemployment
Sep 2007
This paper uses readily accessible data to measure the probability that an employed worker becomes unemployed and the probability that an unemployed worker finds a job, the ins and outs of...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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The Impact Of Employer Matching On Savings Plan Participation Under Automatic Enrollment
Aug 2007
Existing research has documented the large impact that automatic enrollment has on savings plan participation. All the companies examined in these studies, however, have combined automatic...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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What Determines Giving To Hurricane Katrina Victims? Experimental Evidence On Income, Race, And Fairness
Jul 2007
The authors investigate determinants of private and public generosity to Katrina victims using an artifactual field experiment. In this experiment, respondents from the general population viewed a...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
Labor Market Pooling And Occupational Agglomeration
Sep 2009
This paper examines the micro-foundations of occupational agglomeration in U.S. metropolitan areas, with an emphasis on labor market pooling. Controlling for a wide range of occupational...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of New York
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White Papers
Low-Wage Employment Versus Unemployment: Which One Provides Better Prospects For Women?
Jan 2010
This paper analyzes state dependence in low-wage employment of western German women using GSOEP data, 2000-2006. The authors estimate dynamic multinomial logit models with random effects and find...
Provided by EconStor
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White Papers
Spatial Effects Of Open Borders On The Czech Labour Market
Aug 2008
Hardly noticed in Western Europe the fall of the Iron Curtain had also effects on the regional structures of the labour markets in the Central and Eastern European Countries (CEEC). The author...
Provided by EconStor
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White Papers
The Price Of Time And Labour Supply: From The Black Death To The Industrious Revolution
Sep 2009
In pre-industrial economies labour supply curves often bend backwards at very low levels of income. This changed prior to the industrial revolution: total working hours increased (De Vries (1993,...
Provided by University of Oxford
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White Papers
Exchange Rates, Employment And Labour Market
Jul 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 University of Minho
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White Papers
Exchange Rates And Wages In Unionised Labour Markets
Jun 2010
The authors investigate the impact of exchange rate movements on wage determination in unionised labour markets. Using a simple model of international oligopoly, they show that organised labour...
Provided by Nottingham University
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White Papers
International Competition, Returns To Skill And Labor Market Adjustment
Mar 2008
This paper examines whether increased import competition induces domestic workers to skill upgrade and/or switch industries. The analysis makes use of a large unique longitudinal matched...
Provided by University of Nottingham
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White Papers
Firm Heterogeneity And Wages In Unionised Labour Markets: Theory And Evidence
Nov 2008
In many countries wages are set in two stages, where industry-level collective bargaining is followed by firm-specific arrangements determining actual paid wages as a mark-up on the industry wage...
Provided by Nottingham University
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White Papers
Underemployment In A Gender Segregated Labour Market
Mar 2010
This paper analyses factors behind underemployment in Norway and has a focus on gender. The analysis, based on Labour Force Survey data, shows that economic fluctuations during the latest one and...
Provided by Statistics Norway
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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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Webcasts
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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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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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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
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White Papers
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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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
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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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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
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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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White Papers
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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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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White Papers
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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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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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Webcasts
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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Webcasts
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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Webcasts
Engineering Smarter Drivers
Oct 2010
While automakers market increasingly intelligent cars, they may be missing the point. No matter how sophisticated the vehicle's brain, suggests by the author, the smartest element on the road is...
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Webcasts
Re-Engineering Buildings: Innovations In Building Technology
Oct 2010
The built environment consumes a very large share of the nation's energy, and so offers rich opportunities for reducing the overall carbon footprint. MIT researchers share innovations that could...
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Webcasts
What Does Re-Engineering Mean For Real Estate?
Oct 2010
Moderated by prominent real estate economist, this panel includes five senior executives with well over a century of collective experience at major development and investment firms and an industry...
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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White Papers
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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White Papers
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
Proportionality: An Assault On Human Rights?
Nov 2008
Balancing is the main method used by a number of constitutional courts around the world to resolve conflicts of fundamentals rights. The European Court of Human Rights is routinely balancing human...
Provided by New York University School of Law
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White Papers
Management Formality, Size Of Firm And Employee Evaluations Of Work
Jun 2008
A headline result from WERS 2004 is that measures of employee 'Satisfaction' are higher in small than large firms. This paper pursues this issue further. The authors conceptualize 'Satisfaction'...
Provided by University of Warwick
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White Papers
Economics Against Human Rights
Aug 2007
It is said that economics value individual and economic freedom and from that many hastily conclude that mainstream economics value human rights. The purpose of this paper is to show that on the...
Provided by Experimental Economics Center
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White Papers
Human Rights As A Tool For Sustainable Development
Sep 2009
In poor as much as in rich countries there is a fear that environmentally sustainable development might be contradictory to development in general and equitable development in particular. There...
Provided by Experimental Economics Center
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White Papers
Economics For Human Rights
Jan 2011
Human rights are assuredly one of the most influential and fruitful concepts of modern times in the human quest for dignity. Economics has developed a considerable amount of tools especially...
Provided by Experimental Economics Center
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White Papers
Death, Happiness, And The Calculation Of Compensatory Damages
Oct 2007
This paper studies the mental distress caused by bereavement. The largest emotional losses are from the death of a spouse; the second-worst in severity are the losses from the death of a child;...
Provided by University of Warwick
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White Papers
Hypertension And Happiness Across Nations
Jun 2007
In surveys of well-being, countries such as Denmark and the Netherlands emerge as particularly happy while nations like Germany and Italy report lower levels of happiness. But are these kinds of...
Provided by University of Warwick
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White Papers
Do Reductions Of Standard Hours Affect Employment Transitions?: Evidence From Chile
Jan 2010
This paper exploits the reduction of weekly working hours from 48 to 45 occurred in Chile in January 2005. The authors use this pure and exogenous policy change to identify the employment effects...
Provided by University of Warwick
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White Papers
Wage Subsidy And Labour Market Flexibility In South Africa
Jan 2009
In this paper, the authors use a highly disaggregate general equilibrium model to analyze the feasibility of a wage subsidy to unskilled workers in South Africa, isolating and estimating its...
Provided by University of Sussex
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White Papers
Labor Supply Responses To Large Social Transfers: Longitudinal Evidence From South Africa
Sep 2007
The South African old-age social pension has been much studied by both researchers and policy makers, in part for the larger lessons that might be learned about behavioral responses to cash...
Provided by University of Cape Town
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White Papers
Employers? Preferences For Gender, Age, Height And Beauty: Direct Evidence
Dec 2009
The authors study firms' advertised preferences for gender, age, height and beauty in a sample of ads from a Chinese internet job board, and interpret these patterns using a simple employer search...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
Playing The Game Of Communication: Enhancing Skills Through A Reading Of Literature
Jun 2008
A noveau approach can be to study the nuances relating to conversation by using drama as a heuristic device to gain an understanding of the complexities governing structure of communication, goals...
Provided by Vikalpa
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White Papers
Labor Supply, Employment And Unemployment In The Egyptian Economy, 1988-2006
Sep 2007
This paper analyzes data from the Egypt Labor Market Panel Survey of 2006 (ELMPS 06) and its predecessor surveys from 1988 and 1998 to reveal that the employment outlook in Egypt has broadly...
Provided by ERF
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White Papers
Mismatch In The Graduate Labour Market Among Immigrants And Second-Generation Ethnic Minority Groups
Sep 2009
This paper uses graduate survey data and econometric methods to estimate the incidence and wage effects of over-education and over skilling among immigrant and ethnic minority graduates from UK...
Provided by Economic and Social Research Institute
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White Papers
Female Labour Supply And Divorce: New Evidence From Ireland
Jun 2010
If participation in the labor market helps to secure women's outside options in the case of divorce/separation, an increase in the perceived risk of marital dissolution may accelerate the increase...
Provided by University College Dublin
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White Papers
The Labor Market Of Italian Politicians
Oct 2008
In this paper, the authors use this data to tackle several questions that pertain to the selection of Italian politicians, their labor market, and their overall quality. In order to accomplish...
Provided by Singapore Management University
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White Papers
Progress In Human Development - Are We On The Right Path?
Jul 2010
The conventional measure of Human Development Index (HDI) is a linear average across dimensions, HDI1. Under this, poor attainments in any dimension gets perfectly compensated for better...
Provided by East Asian Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
The Impact Of Employer Matching On Savings Plan Participation Under Automatic Enrollment
Aug 2007
Existing research has documented the large impact that automatic enrollment has on savings plan participation. All the companies examined in these studies, however, have combined automatic...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
What Determines Giving To Hurricane Katrina Victims? Experimental Evidence On Income, Race, And Fairness
Jul 2007
The authors investigate determinants of private and public generosity to Katrina victims using an artifactual field experiment. In this experiment, respondents from the general population viewed a...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
Labor Market Pooling And Occupational Agglomeration
Sep 2009
This paper examines the micro-foundations of occupational agglomeration in U.S. metropolitan areas, with an emphasis on labor market pooling. Controlling for a wide range of occupational...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of New York
-
White Papers
Low-Wage Employment Versus Unemployment: Which One Provides Better Prospects For Women?
Jan 2010
This paper analyzes state dependence in low-wage employment of western German women using GSOEP data, 2000-2006. The authors estimate dynamic multinomial logit models with random effects and find...
Provided by EconStor
-
White Papers
Spatial Effects Of Open Borders On The Czech Labour Market
Aug 2008
Hardly noticed in Western Europe the fall of the Iron Curtain had also effects on the regional structures of the labour markets in the Central and Eastern European Countries (CEEC). The author...
Provided by EconStor
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White Papers
The Price Of Time And Labour Supply: From The Black Death To The Industrious Revolution
Sep 2009
In pre-industrial economies labour supply curves often bend backwards at very low levels of income. This changed prior to the industrial revolution: total working hours increased (De Vries (1993,...
Provided by University of Oxford
-
White Papers
Exchange Rates, Employment And Labour Market
Jul 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 University of Minho
-
White Papers
Exchange Rates And Wages In Unionised Labour Markets
Jun 2010
The authors investigate the impact of exchange rate movements on wage determination in unionised labour markets. Using a simple model of international oligopoly, they show that organised labour...
Provided by Nottingham University
-
White Papers
International Competition, Returns To Skill And Labor Market Adjustment
Mar 2008
This paper examines whether increased import competition induces domestic workers to skill upgrade and/or switch industries. The analysis makes use of a large unique longitudinal matched...
Provided by University of Nottingham
-
White Papers
Firm Heterogeneity And Wages In Unionised Labour Markets: Theory And Evidence
Nov 2008
In many countries wages are set in two stages, where industry-level collective bargaining is followed by firm-specific arrangements determining actual paid wages as a mark-up on the industry wage...
Provided by Nottingham University
-
White Papers
Underemployment In A Gender Segregated Labour Market
Mar 2010
This paper analyses factors behind underemployment in Norway and has a focus on gender. The analysis, based on Labour Force Survey data, shows that economic fluctuations during the latest one and...
Provided by Statistics Norway
-
White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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
-
White Papers
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
-
White Papers
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
-
White Papers
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
-
White Papers
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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Webcasts
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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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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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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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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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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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