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Gani, Mohammad - EconWPA - 2004

unemployment, undue instability, and excess debt. …

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Unemployment and re-employment of displaced workers

Murtough, Greg; Waite, Matthew - EconWPA - 2001

Examines the incidence and adjustment experiences of workers who are displaced by economic change. Since the mid-1970s, the aggregate annual rate of retrenchment has fluctuated in a counter-cyclical pattern around a relatively stable long-term trend of about 5 per cent. The paper shows that the...

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Productivity and the structure of employment

Barnes, Paula; Johnson, Rick; Kulys, Anthony; Hook, Scott - EconWPA - 2002

The paper examines the structure of employment defined by industry, skill, age, part-time and casual employment status … and the distribution of earnings. Employment patterns, and changes in employment profiles, are examined for differences …

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Social Networks in Determining Employment and Wages: Patterns, Dynamics, and Inequality

Calvo-Armengol, Antoni; Jackson, Matthew O. - EconWPA - 2002

social contacts. We show that an improvement in the employment status of either an agent's direct or indirect contacts leads … 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 …

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Employment in Poland 2005

Bukowski, Maciej; Lewandowski, Piotr; Magda, Iga; … - EconWPA - 2005

present a comprehensive statistical and econometric analysis of employment, unemployment and participation in Poland in the … with some policy prescriptions. At the moment Poland exhibits the highest unemployment rate in OECD and one of the lowest … employment and participation rates. We begin with a detailed analysis of the reasons of the rapid decrease of employment and …

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CORRUPTION AND BRIBERY IN THE NIGERIAN ECONOMY: AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION

NWAOBI, DR. GODWIN CHUKWUDUM - EconWPA - 2004

Nigeria is going through a difficult political and economic transition after decades of independence.Yet, Nigeria remains a society rich in cultural, linguistic, religious, ethnic and political diversity. Today, the average Nigerian struggles hard to make ends meet; sees himself or herself as...

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Slackers and Zealots: Civil Service, Policy Discretion, and Bureaucratic Capacity

Gailmard, Sean; Patty, John W. - EconWPA - 2005

In this paper we investigate how “civil service” personnel management interacts with bureaucratic discretion to create high capacity, expert bureaucracies populated by policy-motivated agents. We build a model in which bureaucrats may invest in (relationship specific) policy expertise, and...

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Why Is the Japanese Conviction Rate So High?

Ramseyer, J. Mark; Rasmusen, Eric - EconWPA - 1999

Conviction rates in Japan exceed 99 percent -- why? On the one hand, because Japanese prosecutors are badly understaffed they may prosecute only their strongest cases and present judges only with the most obviously guilty defendants. On the other, because Japanese judges can be reassigned by the...

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Does Rapid Liberalization Increase Corruption?

Tavares, Samia - EconWPA - 2005

Corruption scandals seem to abound in countries that have recently undergone reform. Despite the proliferation of stories in the news media, no one has examined whether reform—be it democratization or economic liberalization or both—actually causes an increase in corruption. Theory provides...

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Optimal Auditing Under Intermediated Contracting

Gick, Wolfgang - EconWPA - 2004

This paper builds on Faure-Grimaud and Martimort’s [Economics Letters 71 (2001) 75-82] analysis of intermediated contracting. I argue that intermediated contracting permits one form of auditing, in which the sub-contract offered to the firm is examined, contingent on the intermediary’s...

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