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The Role of Education in Determining Labor Market Outcomes in Urban China's Transitional Labor Markets.

Maurer-Fazio, Margaret - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2002

enterprises shed redundant workers. This paper focuses on the role of education in determining labor market outcomes in China …'s rapidly changing urban labor environment. The empirical work, based on enterprise and worker survey data gathered in the fall … of 1999 and spring of 2000, demonstrates that education is a key determinant of labor market outcomes. Educational …

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How has Economic Restructuring Affected China’s Urban Workers?*

Giles, John; Park, Albert; Cai, Fang - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2003

Using data from the China Urban Labor Survey conducted in five large Chinese cities at year end 2001, we quantify the … in all sample cities and labor force participation declined by 8 percent. Urban residents faced modest levels of wage and …

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Unemployment and finance: how do financial and labour market factors interact?

Gatti, Donatella; Rault, Christophe; Vaubourg, Anne-Gael - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2010

sing annual data for 18 OECD countries over the period 1980-2004, we investigate how labour and financial factors interact to determine unemployment by estimating a dynamic panel model using the system generalized method of moments (GMM). We show that the impact of financial variables depends...

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Real estate brokers: do they inflate housing prices? The case of France

Violand, Wendy; Simon, Arnaud - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2011

This study examines the impact of real estate brokers on the price of residential properties sold in 2005 in twelve French cities. The results indicate that brokers increase the prices of properties they sell even though they appear to have heterogeneous behaviours across cities. The impact of...

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Stratégie optimale de stockage de déchets radioactifs à vie longue sous contrainte de capacité

Villeneuve, Bertrand - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2013

The paper models a program of high‐activity nuclear‐waste management. The physics of cooling incites to store hot waste for a while to spare scarce disposal volume: indeed, colder parcels may be put in tighter conditions. The optimal unconstrained duration of storage is characterized....

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Working Inflow, Outflow, and Churning

Ilmakunnas, Pekka; Maliranta, Mika - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2003

Linked employer-employee data from the Finnish business sector is used in an analysis of worker turnover. The data is an unbalanced panel with over 219 000 observations in the years 1991-97. The churning (excess worker turnover), worker inflow (hiring), and worker outflow (separation) rates are...

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Embracing the Market: Entry into Self-Employment in Transitional China, 1978-1996

Wu, Xiaogang - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2002

This paper introduces labor market transition as an intervening process by which the macro institutional transition to … so in the later phase of reform. The diversity of transition scenarios is attributed to rural-urban differences in labor …

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Labor Force Participation Dynamics in the Romanian Labor Market

Voicu, Alexandru - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2002

We use micro data from the Romanian Labor Force Survey to analyze the effect of the restructuring process on the … Romanian labor market. We identify the reallocation mechanisms at work in the Romanian labor market, and we analyze the way … personal characteristics influence inviduals' ability to adjust to labor market transformations. Participation decisions made …

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Legal Minimum Wages and the Wages of Formal and Informal Sector Workers in Costa Rica

Gindling, T.H.; Terrell, Katherine - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2004

differentials which will not be eroded with labor mobility to the high wage sector. In this paper we use 12 years of micro data on …

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