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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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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
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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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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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Private Information, Wage Bargaining And Employment Fluctuations
Jul 2007
Shimer (2005) pointed out that although the authors have a satisfactory theory of why some workers are unemployed at any given time, they don't know why the number of unemployed workers varies so...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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« The 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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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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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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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
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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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
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
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
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
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
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
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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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
-
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
-
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
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
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
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
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
-
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
-
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
-
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
-
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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
