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A Simultaneous Determination of the Inter Vivos Transfer and the Unemployment Duration: the Malian case
Bah, Fousseynou - HAL - 2011
This article aims to establish a link between the unemployment duration and the inter vivos transfers received by the … on the receiver's unemployment duration. Ultimately, a recursion arises and leads to a simulteanous determination of the … transfer and the duration. The model aims to apprehend the job search behaviour in a context where the unemployment …
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Sample attrition bias in randomized experiments: A tale of two surveys
Behaghel, Luc; Crépon, Bruno; Gurgand, Marc; … - HAL - 2009
telephone survey targeted at those leaving the unemployment registers; this enriched data source has a balanced and much higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738743
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Co-Movements of Business Cycles in the Maghreb: Does Trade Matter?
Belhadj, Aram; Eggoh, Jude - HAL - 2011
Over the past two decades, the Maghreb Countries have initiated a liberalization process characterized by increasing trade flows and they have strengthened economic and financial linkages between their economies. In this paper, we demonstrate how co-movements of outputs would respond to this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821428
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What beyond oil and gas ? Russian trade specialisation in manufactures
Garanina, Olga - HAL - 2009
The objective of the paper is to study Russia's pattern of specialisation in the manufactures trade since 1998. Russia's global trade balance for manufactures is rapidly deteriorating. However, the trade pattern in manufactures should be differentiated according to Russia's main trading...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008790510
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The selection effect of two-way trade in the Melitz model: an alternative approach
Potin, Jacques - HAL - 2009
This paper studies the influential Melitz model of trade with heterogeneous firms using an alternative, intuitive approach. Contrary to what is often argued, it is an increase in product market competition that drives the bad firms out: with two-way trade, entry by foreign firms is not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008836773
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Intransparent Markets and Intra-Industry Trade
Gormsen, Christian - HAL - 2012
Buyers are typically unaware of the full set of offers when making a purchase. This paper examines how international trade interacts with this problem of market intransparency. Sellers must communicate their offers through costly advertising, but cannot reach all buyers. Consequently, no market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010635068
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Fiscal Externalities and Optimal Unemployment Insurance
Lawson, Nicholas - HAL - 2013
A common finding of the optimal unemployment insurance literature is that the optimal UI replacement rate is around 50 … unemployment benefits are the only government spending activity. In this paper I show that recommendations for optimal UI levels …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010933807
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Racial Discrimination in the U.S. Labor Market: Employment and Wage Differentials by Skill
Borowczyk-Martins, Daniel; Bradley, Jake; Tarasonis, Linas - HAL - 2014
In the US labor market the average black worker is exposed to a lower employment rate and earns a lower wage compared to his white counterpart. Lang and Lehmann (2012) argue that these mean differences mask substantial heterogeneity along the distribution of workers' skill. In particular, they...
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On-the-job Search, Productivity Shocks, and the Individual Earnings Process
Postel-Vinay, Fabien; Turon, Hélène - HAL - 2005
Individual labor earnings observed in worker panel data have complex, highly persistent dynamics. We investigate the capacity of a structural job search model with i.i.d. productivity shocks to replicate salient properties of these dynamics, such as the covariance structure of earnings, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738852
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Job board toolkits: Internet matchmaking and changes in job advertisements
Marchal, Emmanuelle; Mellet, Kévin; Rieucau, Géraldine - HAL - 2007
This article examines the role of Internet based labour market intermediaries in coordinating job seeker/employee interactions. A twofold analysis examines on the one hand the matchmaking tools determining applicants' access to job ads, and on the other, the content of ads posted on the web....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821085