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Evaluating Labor Market Reforms: A General Equilibrium Approach
C¨¦sar Alonso-Borrego; Jes¨²s Fern¨¢ndez-Villaverde; … - Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics - 2004
Job security provisions are commonly invoked to explain the high and persistent European unemployment rates. This … both its unemployment and its share of fixed-term employment are the highest. We find that fixedterm contracts increase … unemployment, reduce output, and raise productivity. The welfare effects are ambiguous. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005558738
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L’Emploi, le Chômage et les Conditions d’Activité en République Démocratique du Congo : Principaux résultats de la phase 1 de l’Enquête 1-2-3 2004-2005
Makabu Ma Nkenda, Thimotée; Mba, Martin; Torelli, Constance - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2007
characteristics of employment and unemployment in the country. This study, which presents the principal results of the survey, helps …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011074347
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Le marché du travail en République Démocratique du Congo en 2012 : Principaux résultats de la Phase 1 de l’Enquête 1-2-3
Kankwanda, Grégoire; Makabu Ma Nkenda, Timothée; … - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2014
detailed picture of the main characteristics of employment and unemployment in the country. This study, which presents the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011193766
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The Determinants of Retirement: the crucial impact of the last occupation.
El Mekkaoui de Freitas, Najat; Duc, Cindy - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2011
Understanding the changes that occur in employment patterns as people grow older and the paths they take from employment to retirement may help to apprehend the factors that encourage or discourage employment retention. The aims of this paper are to analyse the process leading up to retirement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010706474
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The Effect of Government Ownership on Union-Wages
Hamermesh, Daniel - Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics - 1973
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Preferences, Comparative Advantage, and Compensating Wage Differentials for Job Routinization
Quintana-Domeque, Climent - Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics - 2008
I attempt to explain why compensating differentials for job disamenities are difficult to observe. I focus on the match between workers’ preferences for routine jobs and the variability in tasks associated with the job. Using data from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, I find that mismatched...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005738605
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Preferences, Comparative Advantage, and Compensating Wage Differentials for Job Routinization
Quintana-Domeque, Climent - Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics - 2008
I attempt to explain why compensating differentials for job disamenities are difficult to observe. I focus on the match between workers’ preferences for routine jobs and the variability in tasks associated with the job. Using data from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, I find that mismatched...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005738628
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Employment and Taxes in Latin America: An Empirical Study of the Effects of Payroll, Corporate Income and Value-Added Taxes on Labor Outcomes
Lora, Eduardo; Fajardo, Deisy Johanna - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
of labor market outcomes such as employment, unemployment, informality, and wages. Using national-level data on labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010578240
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Male and Female GPs incomes: A study of the determinants through quantiles regressions
Franc, Carine; Dumontet, Magali - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2013
In any fee for service system (FFS), doctors are incited to increase their activity such that outpatient care supply is strongly linked to private practice income. Thus, studying the private practice income determinants allows predicting doctors’ care provision. We aim first, to identify the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010707622
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Is Collective Bargaining Pareto Efficient? A Survey of the Literature
Lawson, Nicholas - Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics - 2010
It would be hard, even today, to deny that labour unions are important economic institutions, and it is this importance that makes their consequences for efficiency so substantial. Interest in the economic analysis of unions was revived in the early 1980s, in large part by a paper by Ian...
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