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Friday the 13th: The Empirics of Bad Luck
Fidrmuc, Jan; Tena, J. D. - CESifo - 2014
by behavioral adjustments yet which are of considerable importance to one’s quality of life: employment, earnings and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010948866
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General Education, Vocational Education, and Labor-Market Outcomes over the Life-Cycle
Hanushek, Eric A.; Woessmann, Ludger; Zhang, Lei - CESifo - 2011
. But with rapid technological change, gains in youth employment from vocational education may be offset by less … adaptability and thus diminished employment later in life. To test our main hypothesis that any relative labor-market advantage of … vocational education decreases with age, we employ a difference-in-differences approach that compares employment rates across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009351470
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National Minimum Wage and Employment of Young Workers in the UK
Fidrmuc, Jan; Tena, J. D. - CESifo - 2013
We analyze the impact of the UK national minimum wage (NMW) on the employment of young workers. The previous literature …, we find a significant and negative employment effect for male workers at 21, which we believe to be an anticipation … effect on employment of young workers, with this effect possibly occurring already well in advance of reaching the threshold …
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Why go to France or Germany, if you could as well go to the UK or the US? Selective Features of Immigration to four major OECD Countries
Geis, Wido; Uebelmesser, Silke; Werding, Martin - CESifo - 2008
, we observe interesting patterns in the skill composition, employment opportunities and wages for migrants to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406154
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Economic Returns to Speaking the Right Language(s)? Evidence from Kazakhstan's Shift in State Language and Language of Instruction
Aldashev, Alisher; Danzer, Alexander M. - CESifo - 2014
This paper investigates the economic returns to language skills and bilingualism. The analysis is staged in Kazakhstan, a multi-ethnic country with complex ethnic settlement patterns that has switched its official state language from Russian to Kazakh. Using two newly assembled data sets, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011082829
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Brain Drain in the Age of Mass Migration: Does Relative Inequality Explain Migrant Selectivity?
Stolz, Yvonne; Baten, Jörg - CESifo - 2012
Brain drain is a core economic policy problem for many developing countries today. Does relative inequality in source and destination countries influence the brain-drain phenomenon? We explore human capital selectivity during the period 1820-1909.We apply age heaping techniques to measure human...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009421692
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Flexicurity – Labour Market Performance in Denmark
Andersen, Torben; Svarer, Michael - CESifo - 2007
labour market policies to a more active focus on job search and employment. The policy tightened eligibility for unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765697
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Term Length and the Quality of Appointments
Glazer, Amihai; Kanniainen, Vesa - CESifo - 2000
Consider a principal who appoints an agent. Let the agent potentially serve for a sufficiently long time that one principal is replaced by another over this period. Suppose also that the quality of the agent appointed increases with the effort the incumbent principal devotes to hiring. Then the...
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The Desire for Impact
Dur, Robert; Glazer, Amihai - CESifo - 2005
This paper explores the meaning and implications of the desire by workers for impact. We find that this impact motive can make firms in a competitive labor market act as monopsonists, lead workers with the same characteristics but at different firms to earn different wages, may alleviate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765963
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Connections and Performance in Bankers' Turnover: Better Wed over the Mixen than over the Moor
Battistin, Erich; Graziano, Clara; Parigi, G. - CESifo - 2008
In this paper we study top executive turnover in Italian Banks over the period 1993-2001. We relate the probability of survival of top executives (Presidents, CEOs and General Managers) to bank performance and the manager’s local connections, controlling for (observable and unobservable) bank...
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