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Dynamic modeling of fertility and labour market participation of married or cohabiting women

EDON, Cyriaque; KAMIONKA, Thierry - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2010

We jointly model fertility and participation decisions of women who live in couple using a dynamic model. In this paper … we analyze the labour supply and the fertility decisions of married or cohabiting women in France, Spain, Germany, UK and … an annual basis taking into account the initial conditions problem. The decisions of participation and fertility of women …

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Basic income, unemployment and job scarcity

GROOT, Loek - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2004

The main claim of this paper is that in a world of equal entitlements to work rights the justification for a basic income is stronger, and that its level should be higher. the higher the level of unemployment or job scarcity. Point of departure is an economy with job scarcity. A fair way to deal...

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Do Employers Discriminate Less if Vacancies Are Difficult to Fill? Evidence From a Field Experiment

BAERT, Stijn; COCKX, Baert; GHEYLE, Niels; VANDAMME, Cora - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2013

We empirically test the relationship between hiring discrimination and labour market tightness at the level of the occupation. To this end, we conduct a correspondence test in the youth labour market. In line with theoretical expectations, we find that, compared to natives, candidates with a...

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Is Competition or Collusion in the Product Market Relevant for Labour Markets?

BERGÈS, Fabian; CAPRICE, Stéphane - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2008

In non-union models, there is an ambiguous relationship between collusion on the product market and the resulting impact on the labour market. We can derive some conclusions by assuming a dual labour market with qualified and unqualified workers taking into account the efficiency effect when...

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Enhancing The Performance of Credit Unions : The Evolution of a Methodology

FRIED, Harold O.; LOVELL, C. A. KNOX - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 1994

In the United States credit unions are not-for-profit cooperative financial institutions, owned by and operated for the benefit of their members. Being part of a cooperative movement enhances the likelihood that credit unions will share performance-enhancing ideas, for the benefit of weak credit...

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Forecasting Bank Failure : A Non-Parametric Frontier Estimation Approach

BARR, Richard S.; SEIFORD, Lawrence M.; SIEMS, Thomas F. - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 1994

The dramatic rise in bank failures over the last decade has led to a search for leading indicators so that costly bailouts might be avoided. While the quality of a bank's management is generally acknowledged to be a key contributor to institutional collapse, it is usually excluded from...

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Informal Referrals, Employment and Wages: Seeking Causal Directions

E, Ana Maria DIAZ - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2009

Employers and job seekers rely extensively on job informational networks to fill vacancies or to find a job. The widespread use of job contacts to find work has been largely associated with labor outcomes, such as finding a job or even affecting wages. Some scholars have claimed that informal...

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Radial and Nonradial Technical Efficiency Measures on DEA Reference Technology : A Comparison Using US Banking Data

FERRIER, Gary D.; KERSTENS, Kristiaan; EECKAUT, … - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 1994

Technical efficiency measure can be classified as either radial or nonradial. While the theoretical question of which is the better type of measure is unresolved, the radial measures enjoy much greater popularity than the nonradial measures in the empirical literature. To assess the impact of...

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Low-Skilled Unemployment, Capital-Skill Complementarity and Embodied Technical Progress

Eva, MORENO-GALBIS; Henri R., SNEESSENS - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2004

We construct an intertemporal general equilibrium model with two types of jobs and two types of workers. We allow for job competition between high- and low-skilled segment of the labour market and for on-the-job search. Matching processes are represented by matching functions à la Pissarides....

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Unemployment and Endogenous Growth with Capital-Skill Complementarity

Eva, MORENO-GALBIS - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2004

We construct an endogenous growth intertemporal general equilibrium model with two types of jobs and two types of workers. We allow for job competition between high- and low skilled workers on the low-skilled segment of the labor market and for on-the-job search for high skilled workers....

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