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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 …

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Wage inequality and unemployment with overeducation

Morató, Xavier Cuadras; Mateos-Planas, Xavier - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2006

education groups, and the increase in unemployment at all levels of education. In contrast, in previous literature this type of … technology shock cannot account for all of these changes. The paper uses a matching model with a segmented labour market, an … overeducation is key to understand the response of unemployment to the technology shock. …

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Employee referrals and efficiency wages

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

employees. This paper develops a matching model that can explain the link between inter-industry wage differentials and use of … formal methods (e.g., newspaper ads). In equilibrium, the matching process generates segmentation in the labor market because …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005708007

Measurement and explanation of socioeconomic inequality in health with longitudinal data

Jones, Andrew M.; López, Ángel - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2003

This paper presents a method for the measurement of changes in health inequality and income-related health inequality over time in a population. For pure health inequality (as measured by the Gini coefficient) and income-related health inequality (as measured by the concentration index), we show...

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Country effects in ISSP-1993 environmental data: Comparison of SEM approaches

Rivera, Pilar; Satorra, Albert - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2000

Structural equation models (SEM) are commonly used to analyze the relationship between variables some of which may be latent, such as individual ``attitude'' to and ``behavior'' concerning specific issues. A number of difficulties arise when we want to compare a large number of groups, each with...

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Fusion of data sets in multivariate linear regression with errors-in-variables

Satorra, Albert - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 1996

We consider the application of normal theory methods to the estimation and testing of a general type of multivariate regression models with errors--in--variables, in the case where various data sets are merged into a single analysis and the observable variables deviate possibly from normality....

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Who is afraid of the big bad ban? An evaluation of the effects of the Spanish clean air law on expenditure at hospitality venues

Villar, Jaume Garcia; López-Nicolás, Ángel - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2014

Background: In January 2011 Spain modified clean air legislation in force since 2006, removing all existing exceptions applicable to hospitality venues. Although this legal reform was backed by all political parties with parliamentary representation, the government’s initiative was contested...

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The evolution of inequity in the access to health care in Spain: 1987-2001

Gómez, Pilar García; López, Ángel - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2004

This paper reports an analysis of the evolution of equity in access to health care in Spain over the period 1987-2001, a time span covering the development of the modern Spanish National Health System. Our measures of access are the probabilities of visiting a doctor, using emergency services...

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Socio-economic inequalities in health in Catalonia

Gómez, Pilar García; López, Ángel - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2004

In this paper we measure the degree of income related inequality in mental health as measured by the GHQ instrument and general health as measured by the EQOL-5D instrument for the Catalan population. We find that income is the main contributor to inequality, although the share of inequality in...

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Regional differences in socio-economic health inequalities in Spain

Gómez, Pilar García; López, Ángel - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2004

This paper reports an analysis of income related health inequalities at the Autonomous Community level in Spain using the self assessed health measure in the 2001 edition of the Encuesta Nacional de Salud. We use recently developed methods in order to cardinalise and model self assessed health...

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