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Economic Reforms and Industrial Policy in a Panel of Chinese Cities
Alder, Simon; Shao, Lin; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
We estimate the effect on economic development of China's industrial policy, in particular, the establishment of Special Economic Zones (SEZ). We use data from a panel of 276 Chinese cities and prefectures from 1988 to 2010. Our difference-in-difference estimator exploits the variation in the...
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Carrot and Stick: How Reemployment Bonuses and Benefit Sanctions Affect Job Finding Rates
van der Klaauw, Bas; Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
To increase their transition from welfare to work, benefit recipients in the municipality of Rotterdam were exposed to various financial incentives, including both carrots to sticks. Once their benefit spell exceeded one year, welfare recipients were entitled to a reemployment bonus if they...
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The Informational Role of the Business Cycle
Dellas, Harris - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
Economic decisions such as occupational and entrepreneurial choices may violate true comparative advantage when economic agents are uncertain about which activity best matches their talents. If relative performance varies over the business cycle (for instance, if downturns affect...
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Scale Effects in Markets with Search
Petrongolo, Barbara; Pissarides, Christopher - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
Reduced-form tests of scale effects in markets with search, run when aggregate matching functions are estimated, may …
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Active Labour Market Policies in Poland: Human Capital Enhancement, Stigmatization or Benefit Churning?
Kluve, Jochen; Lehmann, Hartmut; Schmidt, Christoph M - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999
. We sketch the theoretical framework of matching estimators as a substitute for randomization in labor market programs …-in-differences matching estimator of treatment effects. Treatment and control groups are matched over individual observable characteristics …
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The Beveridge Curve
Yashiv, Eran - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
underlying theory is the search and matching model, with workers and firms engaging in costly search leading to random matching … from it, generated by matching. …
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Job Upgrading, Job Creation and Job Destruction
Menezes, Antonio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
This Paper proposes and develops a dynamic matching model à la Mortensen and Pissarides (1994, 1999a, 1999b) where …
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New Developments in Models of Search in the Labour Market
Mortensen, Dale T; Pissarides, Christopher - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999
This paper surveys recent work in equilibrium models of labor markets characterized by search and recruitment frictions and by the need to reallocate workers across productive activities. The duration of unemployment and jobs and wage determination are treated as endogenous outcomes of job...
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Cities, Matching and the Productivity Gains of Agglomeration
Andersson, Fredrik; Burgess, Simon; Lane, Julia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
the role of one of the main contenders: the matching of workers and jobs. Using individual level data for two large US … states we show that thicker urban labour markets are associated with more assortative matching between workers and firms … our data. Putting together the production and matching relationships, we show that production complementarity and …
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Intermediation in Innovation
Hoppe, Heidrun C.; Ozdenoren, Emre - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
The paper offers a new theoretical framework to examine the role of intermediaries between creators and users of new inventions. We find that uncertainty about the profitability of investing in new inventions generates a basis for intermediation. An intermediary may provide an opportunity to...
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