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Is Variation in Hours of Work Driven by Supply or Demand? Evidence from Finnish Manufacturing Industries

Böckerman, Petri; Jäntti, Markus - EconWPA - 2005

This paper uses panel data from 1989 to 1995 on blue-collar workers in Finnish manufacturing industries and their establishments to assess the extent to which hours of work are affected by individual or establishment characteristics - observed as well as unobserved. We argue that recent research...

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The Added Worker Effect and Intrahousehold Aspects of Unemployment

Serneels, Pieter - EconWPA - 2004

The added worker effect states that unemployment of a household member leads to an increase in labour supply of another household member. This paper investigates whether there is such an effect in a developing country. We use a rich data set for urban Ethiopia. We first give a brief description...

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Looking for the Workforce: the Elderly, Discouraged Workers, Minorities, and Students in the Baltic Labour Markets

Hazans, Mihails - EconWPA - 2005

This paper looks at the evolution of the labour markets in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania since the beginning of transition (in some respects since 1996/1998) until 2003, with a particular focus on labour force participation. How did labour supply in the Baltic countries respond to changes in...

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MODELLING HOUSEHOLD CHOICES OF DWELLING AND LOCAL PUBLIC

Colombino, Ugo; Locatelli, Marilena - EconWPA - 2004

In this paper we present some results of a research project to develop and estimate a micro-econometric model of residential choice. The model is applied to a sample of Italian chief towns of district. The choice is assumed to depend on household characteristics, income, structural and...

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Effect of a School Finance Reform on Housing Stock and Residential Segregation: Evidence from Proposal A in Michigan

Roy, Joydeep - EconWPA - 2004

Local financing of public schools in the U.S. leads to a bundling of two distinct choices - residential choice and school choice - and increases the degree of socioeconomic segregation across school districts. A school finance reform can go a long way in weakening this link. In this paper I...

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FHA Has Achieved Its Home Mortgage Capital Reserve Target, Technical Appendix

Kelly, Austin - EconWPA - 1996

propensities of single-family FHA mortgages. Competing risks continuous time hazard models are estimated on random samples of FHA … mortgages originated between 1975 and 1993. Quarterly termination probabilities are estimated as a function of a variety of time … adverse selection at time of prepayment. Borrowers who pass up profitable refinancing opportunities experience elevated claim …

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Ist eine höhere bauliche Dichte wünschenswert? Evidenz aus den Preisen von Einfamilienhäusern im Kanton Zürich

Salvi, Marco - EconWPA - 2003

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The Fatality Risks of Sport-Utility Vehicles, Vans, and Pickups

Gayer, Ted - EconWPA - 2001

This paper presents a model of vehicle choice and empirically examines the risk posed by light trucks (sport-utility vehicles, vans, and pickups) to those that drive them and to other drivers, relative to the risk posed by cars. It compares the relative risk of dying and the relative crash...

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Joint models for noise annoyance and WTP for road noise reduction

Fosgerau, Mogens; Bjørner, Thomas Bue - EconWPA - 2004

Previous CV studies of the WTP for road noise reduction have used stated annoyance as an independent variable. We argue that this may be inappropriate due to potential endogeneity bias. Instead, an alternative model is proposed that treats both WTP and annoyance as endogenous variables in a...

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The Qualitative Performance of the French Health Care System Evolutions compared to Europe since 1970

D'INTIGNANO, Beatrice MAJNONI; ULMANN, Philippe - EconWPA - 2003

, Denmark, Sweden and the United-Kingdom), which are close in relation to and comparable in terms of behaviour and standard of …

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