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A General Model of Technical Change with an Application to the OECD Countries
Heshmati, Almas; Kumbhakar, Subal C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
In the neoclassical production functions model technical change (TC) is assumed to be exogenous and it is specified as a function of time. However, some exogenous external factors other than time can also affect the rate of TC. In this paper we model TC via a combination of time trend (purely...
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Labour Market Reforms and Outcomes in Estonia
Brixiova, Zuzana; Égert, Balázs - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
The unemployment rate in Estonia rose sharply in 2010 to one of the highest levels in the EU, after the country entered a severe recession in 2008. While the rate declined relatively rapidly in 2011, it remained high especially for the less educated. In 2009, the Employment Contract Law relaxed...
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Minimum Wages, Labor Market Institutions, and Female Employment and Unemployment: A Cross-Country Analysis
Addison, John T.; Ozturk, Orgul Demet - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
This paper estimates the effect of minimum wage regulation in 16 OECD countries, 1970-2008. Our treatment is motivated by Neumark and Wascher's (2004) seminal cross-country study using panel methods to estimate minimum wage effects among teenagers and young adults. Apart from the longer time...
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A Comparison of the Poverty Impact of Transfers, Taxes and Market Income across Five OECD Countries
Bibi, Sami; Duclos, Jean-Yves - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper compares the poverty reduction impact of income sources, taxes and transfers across five OECD countries. Since the estimation of that impact can depend on the order in which the various income sources are introduced into the analysis, it is done by using the Shapley value. Estimates...
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Social Capital and Immigrants' Labour Market Performance
Piracha, Matloob; Tani, Massimiliano; Vaira-Lucero, Matias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
levels using the Households Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) longitudinal survey data. We find a positive …
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The Effect of Paid Parental Leave on Child Health in Australia
Broadway, Barbara; Kalb, Guyonne; Kuehnle, Daniel; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
the provision of paid parental leave, even for short periods (as usually available in Australia), will benefit children …
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Job Insecurity and Future Labour Market Outcomes
McGuinness, Seamus; Wooden, Mark; Hahn, Markus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper uses longitudinal survey data to test the degree to which measures of job insecurity are correlated with changes in labour market status. Three major findings are reported. First, the perceived probability of job loss is only weakly related to both exogenous job separations and...
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The Problem of Overskilling in Australia and Britain
McGuinness, Seamus Mcguinness; sloane, peter james; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper examines the parallel trends in education and labour market developments in Australia and Britain. It uses … Australia, but the wage penalty associated with overskilling increases with education. Although the general patterns of … overskilling (prevalence and penalties) are fairly similar between Australia and Britain, the problem appears to be greater in …
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Gender Differences in Rates of Job Dismissal: Why Are Men More Likely to Lose Their Jobs?
Wilkins, Roger; Wooden, Mark - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
of detailed investigation. In this paper, household panel survey data from Australia are used that also find higher …
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Does the Military Train Men to Be Violent Criminals? New Evidence from Australia's Conscription Lotteries
Siminski, Peter; Ville, Simon; Paull, Alexander - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
prepares people for violent warfare, are hypothesized to link service to violent crime. Using Australia's Vietnam …-era conscription lotteries for identification and criminal court data from Australia's three largest states, we seek to estimate the …
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