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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
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...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
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...
Provided by Princeton University
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White Papers
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...
Provided by Princeton University
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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...
Provided by Princeton University
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White Papers
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...
Provided by Princeton University
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White Papers
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...
Provided by Princeton University
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White Papers
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...
Provided by Princeton University
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White Papers
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...
Provided by Princeton University
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White Papers
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...
Provided by Princeton University
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White Papers
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...
Provided by Harvard University
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White Papers
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...
Provided by Commonwealth of Australia
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White Papers
Dual Poverty Trap: Intra- And Intergenerational Linkages In Frictional Labor Markets
Feb 2009
This paper constructs an overlapping generations model with a frictional labor market to explain persistent low education in developing countries. When parents are uneducated, their children often...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
Early Cessation Of Activity In The Labour Market: Impact Of Supply And Demand Factors
Feb 2009
The main objective of this paper is to analyze the problem of population ageing in terms of the cessation of professional activity (and especially premature labour market withdrawals) in order to...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
Study Regarding The Increasing Of Human Resource Quality In Academic Activity
Feb 2009
The life of any organization is not only manifested through its activities, but also by subjective states that its members live and shape its human dimension. Involved in carrying out different...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
Creating New Regions, Improving Regional Welfare Equality?
Jan 2009
In concurrent with reformation and decentralization, number of sub-national administrative in Indonesia increase significantly. Existing regions has been splitting to create new regions. As the...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
Oracle HRMS For The Human Resources Management In The Public Sector
Dec 2008
Oracle Human Resources (Oracle HRMS) represents a strong set of applications for the optimization of the human capital an organization disposes of. In the new economy, based on the Internet, the...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
Internal Versus External Labour Flexibility: The Role Of Knowledge Codification
Apr 2011
This paper uses a competence-based approach to the firm in order to analyse the recent destabilisation of internal labour markets. The authors argue that increasing knowledge codification made...
Provided by Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques
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White Papers
Ethnic Parity In Labour Market Outcomes For Benefit Claimants In Great Britain
Jun 2010
Accurate estimates of the extent of ethnic parity amongst benefit claimants are very important for policymakers who provide interventions for these groups. The authors use new administrative data...
Provided by University of London
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White Papers
Unemployment Policy: Unemployment, Underemployment And Labour Market Insecurity
Jan 2009
In this paper the authors argue that Australia's labour market features too much unemployment, underemployment or associated forms of labour market insecurity. The later term implies a weak or...
Provided by University of Queensland
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White Papers
Housing Liquidity, Mobility, And The Labour Market
Oct 2010
The relationships among geographical mobility, unemployment and the value of owner-occupied housing are studied in an economy with heterogeneous locations, endogenous construction and search...
Provided by Queen's Economics Department
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White Papers
What Drives The Unemployment Rate In Poland
Nov 2008
This paper studies flows on the labour market in Poland in 1995- 2008. The authors show that the main driving force behind the unemployment rate is the behaviour of outflow to employment....
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Case Studies
Postbank Centralizes HR System
Jul 2009
In 2006 Postbank took over 850 Deutsche Post branches and acquired the majority of BHW Holding AG. The integration of the newly acquired entities within Postbank's organizational structure was the...
Provided by Capgemini
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Improving The Labor Market Outcomes Of Minorities: The Role Of Employment Quota
Oct 2008
The world's biggest and arguably most aggressive form of employment based affirmative action policy for minorities exists in India. This paper exploits the institutional features of federally...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
Labor Market Status And Transitions During The Pre-Retirement Years
Nov 2007
Many western industrialized countries face strong budgetary pressures due to the aging of the baby boom generations and the general trends toward earlier ages of retirement. The authors use the...
Provided by RAND
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White Papers
Labor Market And Immigration Behavior Of Middle-Aged And Elderly Mexicans
Dec 2009
In this paper the authors analyzed the retirement behavior of Mexicans with migration spells to the United States that returned to Mexico and non-migrants. The analysis is based on rich panel data...
Provided by RAND
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White Papers
Labor Market: Data From The German Federal Employment Services
Jul 2009
This contribution shows the increasing supply on German micro data over the last years for labor market research. The authors focus on the research data centre movement, the development of new...
Provided by German Data Forum (RatSWD)
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White Papers
The Effect Of Minimum Wages On Labor Market Outcomes: County-Level Estimates From The Restaurant-And-Bar Sector
Dec 2007
The authors use county-level data on employment and earnings in the restaurant-and-bar sector to evaluate the impact of minimum wage changes on low-wage labor markets. The empirical approach is...
Provided by Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis
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White Papers
Racial Inequality In The Uruguayan Labor Market: An Analysis Of Wage Differentials Between Afrodescendants And Whites
Sep 2010
Latin America is a region of sharp inequalities that are far from ethnically blind. In particular, there exists a significant socioeconomic gap between Latin Americans of European and the...
Provided by Universidad De La Republica
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Distortions, Infrastructure And Labor Supply In Latin American Countries
Dec 2010
The author documents differences in labor supply between a set of Latin American countries and the U.S. in the period 1990-2005. These differences are mostly explained by large differences in...
Provided by Universidad De La Republica
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White Papers
Does Job Satisfaction Improve The Health Of Workers? New Evidence Using Panel Data And Objective Measures Of Health
Sep 2007
This paper evaluates the relationship between job satisfaction and measures of health of workers using the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Methodologically, it addresses two important design...
Provided by Stockholm School of Economics
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White Papers
Should Day Care Be Subsidized?
Jun 2010
In an economy with distortionary taxes on labor, can subsidies on day care, financed by an increase in taxes, raise welfare by encouraging women with small children to work? The authors show,...
Provided by Stockholm School of Economics
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White Papers
Why HR Practices Are Not Evidence-Based
Jul 2007
The difference between the academic literature and the practitioner literature on human resource management is an indicator and one cause of the major separation that exists between research and...
Provided by University of Southern California
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White Papers
Labour Market Flexibility In Estonia: What More Can Be Done?
Jul 2009
In mid-2008, high employment and low unemployment rates characterized the Estonian labor market in comparison with the average of the EU15 countries. While aggregate outcomes improved during...
Provided by University of New York in Prague
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White Papers
Impact Of Institutional Quality On Human Rights Abuses In Transition Economies
Jul 2008
Purpose of this paper is to examine the direct effects of institutional quality on human rights abuses in transition economies. The authors make use of an alternative empirical approach for...
Provided by University of Michigan
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White Papers
Comparison Of Approaches To Improving Employee Onboarding And Offboarding Processes
Dec 2009
HR departments are beset by a variety of pressures, including the need to support cost reductions, consolidations, mergers, regulatory changes, and increasing demands to improve core HR processes....
Provided by IDC
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White Papers
Fast HRM: Confidence, Energy And Engagement
Nov 2010
The recession has not yet gone away; companies are not yet hiring, sales are not skyrocketing, and the world seems cautiously waiting for something a bit more positive to happen. That seems to...
Provided by University of Southern California
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White Papers
The Influence Of Stock Market Listing On Human Resource Management: Evidence For France And Britain
Jun 2008
The authors use data from REPONSE 2004 and WERS 2004 to analyze whether approaches to HRM differ according to whether an establishment is part of a company with a stock exchange listing. In both...
Provided by University of Cambridge
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White Papers
Monetary Policy In The Presence Of Informal Labour Markets
Mar 2010
In this paper the authors analyze the effects of informal labor markets on the dynamics of inflation and on the transmission of aggregate demand and supply shocks. In doing so, they incorporate...
Provided by Banco Central de Reserva del Perú
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White Papers
Employment Entitlements To Carer~s Leave: Domesticating Diverse Subjectivities
Nov 2009
This paper explores the normative underpinnings of two main sets of minimum employment standards in Australia: parental leave following birth or adoption of a child, and personal/carer's leave in...
Provided by University of Melbourne
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White Papers
Happiness As An Objective Of Labour Law
Feb 2010
While the idea of happiness at work has been recognized in other fields, there has been relatively little research into the relationship between labor law and happiness in leading law reviews....
Provided by University of Melbourne
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White Papers
Protection Of Employees In A Transmission Of Business: What Is Left In The Wake Of WorkChoices And Subsequent Statutory Amendments
Nov 2007
Regulation of the employment relationship in the context of a transmission of business has undergone substantial revision as a result of the Workplace Relations Amendment (Work Choices) Act 2005...
Provided by University of Melbourne
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White Papers
Assessing The Incidence And Wage Effects Of Over-skilling In The Australian Labour Market
Nov 2007
This paper examines the incidence and wage effects of over-skilling within the Australian labor market. It finds that approximately 30 percent of employees believed themselves to be moderately...
Provided by University of Melbourne
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White Papers
The Problem Of Overskilling In Australia And Britain
Nov 2007
This paper examines the parallel trends in education and labor market developments in Australia and Britain. It uses unique information in the WERS and HILDA surveys on reported over skilling in...
Provided by University of Melbourne
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A Latent Variable Approach To Forecasting The Unemployment Rate
Jul 2009
A forecasting model for unemployment is constructed that exploits the time-series properties of unemployment while satisfying the economic relationships specified by Okun's law and the Phillips...
Provided by University of Melbourne
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Overskilling Dynamics And Education Pathways
Jul 2009
This paper uses panel data and econometric methods to estimate the incidence and the dynamic properties of over skilling among employed individuals. The paper begins by asking whether there is...
Provided by University of Melbourne
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White Papers
Does Part-Time Employment Help Or Hinder Lone Mothers? Movements Into Full-Time Employment?
Dec 2009
A significant demographic trend in recent decades in Australia has been the growth in lone parent families as a proportion of all families, associated with which has been growth in welfare...
Provided by University of Melbourne
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White Papers
How Does A Worker?s Labour Market History Affect Job Duration?
May 2010
This paper explores the relation between a worker's job duration and prior labor market experience. Hazard models are estimated using data on employment spells for the population aged 25 to 64...
Provided by University of Melbourne
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White Papers
Immigration Background And The Intergenerational Correlation In Education
Jun 2010
This paper analyzes the degree of intergenerational education mobility among immigrant and native-born youth in Australia. The authors find that young Australians from Non-English-Speaking...
Provided by University of Melbourne
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White Papers
Are Active Labour Market Programmes Least Effective Where They Are Most Needed? The Case Of The British New Deal For Young People
Sep 2010
One view of Active Labor Market Programs (ALMPs) is that they are 'Most needed' in slack labor markets, where more unemployed workers require help finding jobs. But ALMPs might be less effective...
Provided by University of Melbourne
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White Papers
Globalization And Imperfect Labor Market Sorting
Dec 2010
This paper focuses on the ability of the labor market to correctly match heterogeneous workers to jobs within a given industry and the role that globalization plays in that process. Using matched...
Provided by Research Institute of Industrial Economics
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White Papers
The Labor Market Returns To Cognitive And Noncognitive Ability: Evidence From The Swedish Enlistment
Mar 2009
The authors use data from the military enlistment for a large representative sample of Swedish men to assess the importance of cognitive and non-cognitive ability for labor market out-comes. The...
Provided by Research Institute of Industrial Economics
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White Papers
Informality And Productivity In The Labor Market: Peru 1986 - 2001
Jul 2007
Peru has one of the highest informality rates in Latin America, with almost 60 percent of the urban labor force working at the margins of labor market legislation or in microenterprises that lack...
Provided by Inter-American Development Bank
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White Papers
Market Characteristics, Intra-Firm Coordination, And The Choice Of Human Resource Management Systems: Evidence From New Japanese Data
Nov 2007
This paper explores theoretically and empirically potentially important yet often-neglected linkage between task coordination within the organization and the structure of organization and bundling...
Provided by Henvendelser
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White Papers
Obesity And Labor Market Outcomes: New Danish Evidence
Dec 2007
This paper analyzes the relationship between three body weight measures, employment status and wages, thereby broadening the perspective of the literature on obesity and labor market outcomes. The...
Provided by Henvendelser
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White Papers
The Driving Force Of Labor Force Participation In Developed Countries
Jun 2008
The evolution of labor force participation rate is modeled using a lagged linear function of real economic growth, as expressed by GDP per capita. For the U.S., the model predicts at a two-year...
Provided by ECINEQ
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White Papers
Technological Progress, Organizational Change And The Size Of The Human Resources Department
Jun 2008
Innovative workplace practices based on multi-tasking and ICT that have been diffusing in most OECD countries since the 1990s have strong consequences on working conditions. Available data show...
Provided by University of Glasgow
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White Papers
Identification Of Models Of The Labor Market
Sep 2010
This chapter discusses identification of common selection models of the labor market. The authors start with the classic Roy model and show how it can be identified with exclusion restrictions....
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
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White Papers
Crime And The Labor Market: A Search Model With Optimal Contracts
Oct 2007
This paper extends the Pissarides (2000) model of the labor market to include crime and punishment 'a la Becker (1968). All workers, irrespective of their labor force status can commit crimes and...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
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White Papers
The Labor Market Experience And Impact Of Undocumented Workers
Jun 2008
Using administrative data from the state of Georgia, the authors find that average wages among documented workers are lower in industries that employ undocumented workers and that a greater share...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
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White Papers
Employee Attributions Of The "Why" Of HR Practices: Their Effects On Employee Attitudes And Behaviors, And Customer Satisfaction
Dec 2007
The construct of Human Resource (HR) Attributions is introduced. The authors argue that the attributions that employees make about the reasons why management adopts the HR practices that it does...
Provided by ILR School, Cornell University
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White Papers
Changing An Unfavorable Employment Reputation: A Longitudinal Examination
Nov 2008
High information recruitment practices (e.g., personal communication from a recruiter) from both single and multiple sources were more effective for changing unfavorable employment reputation...
Provided by ILR School, Cornell University
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White Papers
Labor Retrenchment Laws And Their Effect On Wages And Employment: A Theoretical Investigation
Mar 2008
Many countries have legislation which makes it costly for firms to dismiss or retrench workers. In the case of India, the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947, requires firms that employ 50 or more...
Provided by ILR School, Cornell University
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White Papers
The Human Resource Economics Of Vernon Briggs
Jun 2009
This paper examines the conception of Human Resource Economics (HRE) that shaped the career of Vernon M. Briggs Jr. It probes the history of economic thought to describe the intellectual roots of...
Provided by ILR School, Cornell University
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White Papers
Does Outsourcing Reduce Wages In The Low Wage Service Occupations? Evidence From Janitors And Guards
Aug 2008
Outsourcing of labor services grew substantially during the eighties and nineties, and was associated with lower wages, less benefits, and lower rates of unionization. The authors focus on two...
Provided by University of California, Berkeley
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White Papers
Spatial Heterogeneity And Minimum Wages: Employment Estimates For Teens Using Cross-State Commuting Zones
Jun 2009
Conventional approaches to estimating the effect of minimum wages on teen employment insufficiently account for heterogeneous employment patterns and selectivity of states with higher minimum...
Provided by University of California, Berkeley
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White Papers
Choice Of Law And Employee Restrictive Covenants
Sep 2009
Employees are increasingly mobile across state lines. This is partly the result of technological change that facilitates individual movement and communication, but also a result of corresponding...
Provided by University of California, Berkeley
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White Papers
The Changing Structure Of Employment In Contemporary China
Oct 2009
China is the twenty-first century's "Workshop of the world," absorbing natural resources from Africa, Latin America and the rest of Asia and exporting manufactured goods, much as England did...
Provided by University of California, Berkeley
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White Papers
Employee Replacement Costs
Mar 2010
The authors investigate properties of employee replacement costs, using a panel survey of California businesses in 2003 and 2008. They establish that replacement costs are substantial relative to...
Provided by University of California, Berkeley
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White Papers
Do Frictions Matter In The Labor Market? Accessions, Separations And Minimum Wage Effects
Oct 2010
The authors provide the first test of the effects of U.S. minimum wages on labor market flows (accession, separation and turnover rates). Using county pairs straddling borders with minimum wage...
Provided by University of California, Berkeley
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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
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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
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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
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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...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
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...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
-
White Papers
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...
Provided by Princeton University
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White Papers
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...
Provided by Princeton University
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White Papers
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...
Provided by Princeton University
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White Papers
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...
Provided by Princeton University
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White Papers
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...
Provided by Princeton University
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White Papers
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...
Provided by Princeton University
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White Papers
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...
Provided by Princeton University
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White Papers
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...
Provided by Princeton University
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White Papers
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...
Provided by Harvard University
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White Papers
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...
Provided by Commonwealth of Australia
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White Papers
Dual Poverty Trap: Intra- And Intergenerational Linkages In Frictional Labor Markets
Feb 2009
This paper constructs an overlapping generations model with a frictional labor market to explain persistent low education in developing countries. When parents are uneducated, their children often...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
Early Cessation Of Activity In The Labour Market: Impact Of Supply And Demand Factors
Feb 2009
The main objective of this paper is to analyze the problem of population ageing in terms of the cessation of professional activity (and especially premature labour market withdrawals) in order to...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
Study Regarding The Increasing Of Human Resource Quality In Academic Activity
Feb 2009
The life of any organization is not only manifested through its activities, but also by subjective states that its members live and shape its human dimension. Involved in carrying out different...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
Creating New Regions, Improving Regional Welfare Equality?
Jan 2009
In concurrent with reformation and decentralization, number of sub-national administrative in Indonesia increase significantly. Existing regions has been splitting to create new regions. As the...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
Oracle HRMS For The Human Resources Management In The Public Sector
Dec 2008
Oracle Human Resources (Oracle HRMS) represents a strong set of applications for the optimization of the human capital an organization disposes of. In the new economy, based on the Internet, the...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
Internal Versus External Labour Flexibility: The Role Of Knowledge Codification
Apr 2011
This paper uses a competence-based approach to the firm in order to analyse the recent destabilisation of internal labour markets. The authors argue that increasing knowledge codification made...
Provided by Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques
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White Papers
Ethnic Parity In Labour Market Outcomes For Benefit Claimants In Great Britain
Jun 2010
Accurate estimates of the extent of ethnic parity amongst benefit claimants are very important for policymakers who provide interventions for these groups. The authors use new administrative data...
Provided by University of London
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White Papers
Unemployment Policy: Unemployment, Underemployment And Labour Market Insecurity
Jan 2009
In this paper the authors argue that Australia's labour market features too much unemployment, underemployment or associated forms of labour market insecurity. The later term implies a weak or...
Provided by University of Queensland
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White Papers
Housing Liquidity, Mobility, And The Labour Market
Oct 2010
The relationships among geographical mobility, unemployment and the value of owner-occupied housing are studied in an economy with heterogeneous locations, endogenous construction and search...
Provided by Queen's Economics Department
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White Papers
What Drives The Unemployment Rate In Poland
Nov 2008
This paper studies flows on the labour market in Poland in 1995- 2008. The authors show that the main driving force behind the unemployment rate is the behaviour of outflow to employment....
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Case Studies
Postbank Centralizes HR System
Jul 2009
In 2006 Postbank took over 850 Deutsche Post branches and acquired the majority of BHW Holding AG. The integration of the newly acquired entities within Postbank's organizational structure was the...
Provided by Capgemini
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White Papers
Improving The Labor Market Outcomes Of Minorities: The Role Of Employment Quota
Oct 2008
The world's biggest and arguably most aggressive form of employment based affirmative action policy for minorities exists in India. This paper exploits the institutional features of federally...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
Labor Market Status And Transitions During The Pre-Retirement Years
Nov 2007
Many western industrialized countries face strong budgetary pressures due to the aging of the baby boom generations and the general trends toward earlier ages of retirement. The authors use the...
Provided by RAND
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White Papers
Labor Market And Immigration Behavior Of Middle-Aged And Elderly Mexicans
Dec 2009
In this paper the authors analyzed the retirement behavior of Mexicans with migration spells to the United States that returned to Mexico and non-migrants. The analysis is based on rich panel data...
Provided by RAND
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White Papers
Labor Market: Data From The German Federal Employment Services
Jul 2009
This contribution shows the increasing supply on German micro data over the last years for labor market research. The authors focus on the research data centre movement, the development of new...
Provided by German Data Forum (RatSWD)
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White Papers
The Effect Of Minimum Wages On Labor Market Outcomes: County-Level Estimates From The Restaurant-And-Bar Sector
Dec 2007
The authors use county-level data on employment and earnings in the restaurant-and-bar sector to evaluate the impact of minimum wage changes on low-wage labor markets. The empirical approach is...
Provided by Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis
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White Papers
Racial Inequality In The Uruguayan Labor Market: An Analysis Of Wage Differentials Between Afrodescendants And Whites
Sep 2010
Latin America is a region of sharp inequalities that are far from ethnically blind. In particular, there exists a significant socioeconomic gap between Latin Americans of European and the...
Provided by Universidad De La Republica
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White Papers
Distortions, Infrastructure And Labor Supply In Latin American Countries
Dec 2010
The author documents differences in labor supply between a set of Latin American countries and the U.S. in the period 1990-2005. These differences are mostly explained by large differences in...
Provided by Universidad De La Republica
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White Papers
Labor-Management Bargaining, Labor Standards And International Rivalry
Apr 2009
Using the labor union's bargaining power as an indication of government policy on labor standards issues, the authors analyze the competition between a domestic (North) firm and a foreign (South)...
Provided by Kobe University
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White Papers
Changes In Japan~s Labor Market Flows Due To The Lost Decade
Apr 2011
The authors construct worker flows for the Japanese labor market in an internationally comparable manner, and study the consequences of the deep and lasting recession of the 1990s in the Japanese...
Provided by Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI)
