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Fixed-term contracts and the duration distribution of unemployment

Güell, Maia - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2002

In the mid-1980s, many European countries introduced fixed-term contracts. Since then their labor markets have become more dynamic. This paper studies the implications of such reforms for the duration distribution of unemployment, with particular emphasis on the changes in the duration...

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Labour market in the Catalan cotton textile sector: Employment and fertility (1850-1913)

Camps, Enriqueta - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2003

This paper deals whit the dynamics of the Catalan textile labour market (the Spanish region that concentrated most of the industrial and factory activity during the 19 Century) and offers hypotheses and results on the impact it had on living standards and fertility levels. We observe the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005103307

Coworker networks in the labour market

Glitz, Albrecht - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2013

This paper studies the role coworker-based networks play for individual labour market outcomes. I analyse how the provision of labour market relevant information by former coworkers affects the employment probabilities and, if hired, the wages of male workers who have previously become...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010711311

The impact of firing costs on turnover and unemployment: Evidence from the Colombian labour market reform

Kugler, Adriana D. - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 1999

firing costs on worker turnover by exploiting the temporal change in the Colombian labour legislation as well as the …

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Employee referrals and the inter-industry wage structure

Kugler, Adriana D. - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 1997

This paper investigates the role of employee referrals in the labor market. Using an original data set, I find that … industries that pay wage premia and have characteristics associated with high-wage sectors rely mainly on employee referrals to … fill jobs. Moreover, unemployment rates are higher in industries which use employee referrals more extensively. This paper …

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Hiring and firing costs, adverse selection and long-term unemployment

Kugler, Adriana D.; Paul, Gilles Saint - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2000

In this paper, we present a matching model with adverse selection that explains why flows into and out of unemployment are much lower in Europe compared to North America, while employment-to-employment flows are similar in the two continents. In the model,firms use discretion in terms of whom to...

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Employee referrals and efficiency wages

Kugler, Adriana - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2002

, firms in high-wage sectors report using employee referrals because they help provide screening and monitoring of new … employee referrals. Referrals lower monitoring costs because high-effort referees can exert peer pressure on co … of heterogeneity in the size of referral networks. Referrals match ‘good’ high-paying jobs to well-connected workers …

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Self-serving biases: Evidence from a simulated labor relationship

Charness, Gary; Haruvy, Ernan - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 1999

Previous studies have found evidence of a self-serving bias in bargaining and dispute resolution. We use experimental data to test for this effect in a simulated labor relatonship. We find a consistent discrepancy between employer beliefs and employee actions that can only be attributed to...

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Explaining movements in the labor share

Bentolila, Samuel; Paul, Gilles Saint - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 1999

In this paper we study the evolution of the labor share in the OECD since 1970. We show it is essentially related to the capital-output ratio; that this relationship is shifted by factors like the price of imported materials or the skill mix; and that discrepancies between the marginal product...

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Job dynamics, correlated shocks and wage profiles

Cabrales, Antonio; Hopenhayn, Hugo - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 1998

We generalize the Mortensen-Pissarides (1994) model of the labor market with a more realistic structure for the stochastic process of the shocks to the worker-firm match. In this way we can acommodate the empirical observation that hazard rates of job termination decrease and average wages...

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