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Flexibility vs. rigidity: Does Spain have the worst of both worlds?

Paul, Gilles Saint - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2000

In this paper we study the structure of labor market flows in Spain and compare them with France and the US. We characterize a number of empirical regularities and stylized facts. One striking result is that the job finding rate is slightly higher than in France, while the jon loss rate is much...

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Single mothers and incentives to work: The French experience

Luna, Libertad González - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2005

This paper analyzes the effect of the 1998 reform of the French single parents allowance on the labor supply of single mothers with very young children. The reform aimed at encouraging participation by allowing eligible single parents to accumulate benefits and labor earnings for a limited...

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Financing constraints and fixed-term employment contracts

Caggese, Andrea; Cuñat, Vicente - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2006

This paper studies the interactions between financing constraints and the employment decisions of firms when both fixed-term and permanent employment contracts are available. We first develop a dynamic model that shows the effects of financing constraints and firing costs on employment...

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Estimadores compuestos en estadística regional: aplicación para la tasa de variación de la ocupación en la industria

Costa, Àlex; Satorra, Albert; Ventura, Eva - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2001

This work is part of a project studying the performance of model based estimators in a small area context. We have chosen a simple statistical application in which we estimate the growth rate of accupation for several regions of Spain. We compare three estimators: the direct one based on...

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An empirical evaluation of small area estimators

Costa, Àlex; Satorra, Albert; Ventura, Eva - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2003

This paper investigates the comparative performance of five small area estimators. We use Monte Carlo simulation in the context of both theoretical and empirical populations. In addition to the direct and indirect estimators, we consider the optimal composite estimator with population weights,...

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Using composite estimators to improve both domain and total area estimation

Costa, Àlex; Satorra, Albert; Ventura, Eva - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2003

In this article we propose using small area estimators to improve the estimates of both the small and large area parameters. When the objective is to estimate parameters at both levels accurately, optimality is achieved by a mixed sample design of fixed and proportional allocations. In the mixed...

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Endogenous labor market participation and the business cycle

Haefke, Christian; Reiter, Michael - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2006

Existing models of equilibrium unemployment with endogenous labor market participation are complex, generate … procyclical unemployment rates and cannot match unemployment variability relative to GDP. We embed endogenous participation in a … variabilities but also generates strongly countercyclical unemployment rates. With some wage rigidity the model also matches …

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Interviews and adverse selection

Josephson, Jens; Shapiro, Joel - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2008

information-based unemployment, where able workers are rejected by firms because of their lack of offers in previous interviews …

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Downsizing, job insecurity and firm reputation

Jeon, Doh-Shin; Shapiro, Joel - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2004

This paper studies how firms make layoff decisions in the presence of adverse shocks. In this uncertain environment, workers' expectations about their job security affect their on-the-job performance. This productivity effect on job insecurity forces firms to strike a balance between laying off...

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Employment protection, international specialization and innovation

Paul, Gilles Saint - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 1996

We develop a model to analyse the implications of firing costs on incentives for R&D and international specialization. The Key idea is paying the firing cost, the country with a rigid labor market will tend to produce relatively secure goods, at a late stage of their product life cycle. Under...

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