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According to theory, the effect of carriers' transport costs on freight prices depends on the directional imbalance in transport flows. Using data on inland waterway transport, we demonstrate that when the ratio of export to import trips doubles, the marginal effect of carriers' transport costs...
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Labor markets around the world have become increasingly integrated over the last two decades, with the entry of China … rapid technological progress. At the same time, the share of labor in national income decreased in most advanced countries …. This paper uses a labor share equation derived from a translog revenue function to estimate the contributions of …
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In this paper we derive a structural measure for labor market density based on the Ellison and Glasear (1997) "Index … for industry concentration". This labor market density measure serves as a proxy for the number of workers that can reach …
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distribution with a lower level of labor market tightness; (iv) the average wage is non-monotonic in the number of applications; (v …
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We study risk behavior of Danish self-employed entrepreneurs, whose income risk may be driven by both exogenous factors and effort choice (moral hazard). Partial insurance is available through voluntary unemployment insurance (UI). Additional incentives to sign insurance contracts stem from a...
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This meta-analytical review of empirical studies of the impact of schooling on entrepreneurship selection and performance in developing economies looks at variations in impact across specific characteristics of the studies. A marginal year of schooling in developing economies raises enterprise...
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This paper examines the relationship between entrepreneurship (as measured by fluctuations in the business ownership rate) and unemployment in Japan for the period between 1972 and 2002. We find that, although Japan’s unemployment rate has been influenced by specific exogenous shocks, the...
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the Beveridge curve into different parts using data from the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS). We find that …
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This paper first documents the increase in the time lag with which labor input reacts to output fluctuations ("the … labor adjustment lag") that is visible in US data since the mid-1980s. We show that a lagged labor adjustment response is … optimal in a setting where there is uncertainty about the persistence of shocks and where labor input is costly to adjust. We …
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