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Social Networks in Determining Employment and Wages: Patterns, Dynamics, and Inequality
Calvo-Armengol, Antoni; Jackson, Matthew O. - EconWPA - 2002
to an increase in the agent's employment probability and expected wages, in the sense of first order stochastic dominance … show that employment is positively correlated across time and agents, and the same is true for wages. Moreover …, unemployment exhibits persistence in the sense of duration dependence: the probability of obtaining a job decreases in the length …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005135002
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Report of the Georgia Governor’s Wokers’ Compensation Review Commission
Eaton, Thomas A.; Mustard, David B. - EconWPA - 2005
The Commission appointed by Governor Barnes consists of fourteen members, three ex officio members, and seven advisory members. This group includes academics, members of the legislature, claimants attorneys, defense attorneys, representatives from the insurance industry, organized labor, the...
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Globalisation and Imperfect Labour Markets: New Phenomena, Old Problems
Freytag, Andreas; Weiss, Pia - EconWPA - 2002
Still, globalisation and its effects on wages and employment is a major topic in the public press. Therefore, this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005119229
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Retirement Decisions of Older Czech Male Workers
Galuscak, Kamil - EconWPA - 2002
I analyze the effects associated with the introduction of the earnings test on older Czech males' labor supply in 1996. Using data from the Labor Force Survey, I apply a difference-in-differences estimator to measure the effect of the policy change in the Czech pension scheme using a sample of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076532
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Generalizing the Causal Effect of Fertility on Female Labor Supply
Cruces, Guillermo; Galiani, Sebastian - EconWPA - 2003
We study the effect of fertility on labor supply in Argentina and Mexico exploiting a source of exogenous variability in family size first introduced by Angrist and Evans (1998) for the United States. Our results constitute the first external validation of the estimates obtained for the US....
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AIDS and income distribution in Africa. A micro-simulation study for Cˆote d’Ivoire
Grimm, Michael; Cogneau, Denis - EconWPA - 2004
We develop a demo-economic micro-simulation model able to simulate over a fifteen years period the impact of AIDS on household and individual incomes. When focusing on the labor supply effects of over- mortality, the main effect of AIDS in Cˆote d’Ivoire is a shrinking of the size of the...
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Consumer Demand and Labor Supply (scanned out-of-print 1981 Elsevier book)
Barnett, William A. - EconWPA - 2005
The following highly-cited research monograph, although widely available in libraries, is now out of print: William A. Barnett, Consumer Demand and Labor Supply, North Holland, Amsterdam, 1981. In case you do not have access to the printed book, I have scanned it and put it online below. Since...
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LOSS AVERSION AND LABOR SUPPLY
Fehr, Ernst; Huffman, David; Goette, Lorenz - EconWPA - 2004
In many occupations, workers’ labor supply choices are constrained by institutional rules regulating labor time and effort provision. This renders explicit tests of the neoclassical theory of labor supply difŽ cult. Here we present evidence from studies examining labor supply responses in...
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Is the Euro Working? The Euro and European Labour Markets
Silvia, Stephen - EconWPA - 2005
Now that four years have passed since the introduction of the euro as a commercial currency, it has become possible to assess many arguments made in the abstract during the 1990s about the implications of monetary union. This contribution does precisely that. In brief, the euro zone still falls...
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College Characteristics and the Wages of Young Women
Daniel, Kermit; Black, Dan; Smith, Jeffery - EconWPA - 1996
have positive impacts on young women's wages. We find evidence of ability sorting, but controlling for ability, women who … attend higher quality colleges earn higher wages. Women receive smaller gains from college quality than do men; black women … earn more than those who attend public colleges, and women earn lower wages, the higher the proportion of their college …
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