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Unemployment and worker-firm matching : theory and evidence from East and West Europe

Münich, Daniel - 2009

inefficient matching. Hypothesis 2 (H2) is that unemployment is caused by low demand. Hypothesis 3 (H3) is that restructuring is … returns to scale in matching and unemployment appears to be driven by restructuring and low demand. The East German case is … complex because of its major active labor market policies and a negative trend in efficiency in matching. In some sense, East …

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Market power and the matching of trade credit terms

Fabbri, Daniele - 2008

to their customers, and to "match maturity" between the contract terms of payables and receivables. This matching …

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Georgia : Skills Mismatch and Unemployment, Labor Market Challenges

World Bank - 2013

This paper reviews labor market performance in Georgia, and examines the link between labor market outcomes and poverty. At over 15 percent, the unemployment rate in the country is high by European standards. Georgia faces three main labor market issues: (a) underutilization of labor resources,...

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Matching Aspirations : Skills for Implementing Cambodia's Growth Strategy

World Bank - 2013

Over the past decade, Cambodia improved the skills of its workforce at a slower rate than other countries in East Asia. And, although Cambodia's firms do not perceive skills as their main business constraint, skills shortages may negatively affect the process of both industrial and agricultural...

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Matching for Teams

Carlier, Guillaume; Ekeland, Ivar - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2010

We are given a list of tasks Z and a population divided into several groups X j of equal size. Performing one task z requires constituting a team with exactly one member x j from every group. There is a cost (or reward) for participation: if type x j chooses task z, he receives p j (z);...

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Learning to walk before you run : Financial Behavior and mobile banking in Madagascar

Venet, Baptiste; Arestoff, Florence - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2013

Antananarivo. We use the matching methodology to assess the impacts of m-banking on clients' financial behavior. The results show …

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Subsidizing low-skilled jobs in a dual labor market

Belan, Pascal; Gregoir, Stéphane; Carré, Martine - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2009

We introduce a matching model that allows for classical and frictional unemployment. The labor market is dual featuring …

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