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This paper is part of a project that attempts to reveal the way labour market institutions, human capital and labour productivity are interconnected. First we discuss two approaches in the human capital theory, stressing some difficulties that could be solved if the approaches are combined. It...
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This paper considers the job satisfaction of academics using a detailed dataset of over two thousand academics from ten English higher education institutions. The results of our analysis suggest that one would be wrong to consider one single measure of job-satisfaction. Academics appear to be...
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trading turnover as a measure of liquidity and the 1976-1993 Tokyo Stock Exchange data, I find that, cross-sectionally, stocks … with higher turnover tend to have a lower expected return. This evidence is consistent with predictions derived from an … Amihud-Mendelson type of transaction cost model in which the turnover measures investors’ trading frequency. The trading …
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Labor contracts that result in dismissals are quite common in the real world. The question that arises is why employers do not just offer reduced wages instead of asking workers with low realized productivity to leave. This paper argues that such behavior can be explained by workers'...
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In this paper, I examine the impact of employer-provided health benefits on job turnover. Because many employer … portability of health plans. The estimates suggest that spouse-provided benefits substantially increase the likelihood of turnover. …
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associated with the Terrorist Attacks of the 11th of September of 2001, in the USA, in terms of the development of contagion … response functions are used. The occurrence of contagion is ratified by the results, starting from the terrorist attacks in the …
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L’objet de cet article est de mener une étude empirique sur l’effet de créancier bancaire commun à l’aide d’indices de vulnérabilité calculés à partir des données de la BRI afin de montrer une vulnérabilité à un retournement des capitaux bancaires à la veille des crises...
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2002. We test for financial contagion from the Argentine crisis and the impact of factors including IMF intervention and …
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This paper presents a model on contagion in nancial markets. We use a bank run framework as a mechanism to initiate a …
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In this paper we test for contagion within the East Asian region, contagion being defined as a significant increase in … omitted variable respectively. The null of interdependence against the alternative of contagion is then tested as an over … corresponding to the beginning of the contagion period, and finally we impose more plausible restrictions in order to identify the …
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