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Who Becomes an Entrepreneur? Labor Market Prospects and Occupational Choice
Poschke, Markus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Why do some people become entrepreneurs (and others don't)? Why are firms so heterogeneous, and many firms so small? To start, the paper briefly documents evidence from the empirical literature that the relationship between entrepreneurship and education is U-shaped, that many entrepreneurs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822184
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Offshoring and Unemployment: The Role of Search Frictions and Labor Mobility
Mitra, Devashish; Ranjan, Priya - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
In a two-sector, general-equilibrium model with labor-market search frictions, we find that wage increases and sectoral …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005070432
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Does Globalisation Increase Child Labour?
Cigno, Alessandro; Rosati, Furio C.; Guarcello, Lorenzo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
There is no empirical evidence that trade exposure per se increases child labour. As trade theory and household … economics lead us to expect, the cross-country evidence seems to indicate that trade reduces or, at worst, has no significant … so much globalisation, as being allowed to take part in it. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703735
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Wage Determination in the U.S. Airline Industry: Union Power under Product Market Constraints
Hirsch, Barry T. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
The paper analyzes wages in the U.S. airline industry, focusing on the role of collective bargaining in a changing product market environment. Airline unions have considerable strike threat power, but are constrained by the financial health of carriers. Since airline deregulation, compensation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822463
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Workforce Reorganization and the Worker
Kriechel, Ben; Pfann, Gerard A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
In this paper we study the joint decision process of changing the structure of jobs and laying off individual workers in a firm that downsizes its workforce. A hierarchical decision model is proposed and estimated using personnel data from a firm in demise comparing the characteristics of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009147293
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Using Happiness Surveys to Value Intangibles: The Case of Airport Noise
Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Baarsma, Barbara E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
Inhabitants of houses near Amsterdam Airport are complaining of noise nuisance, caused by aircraft traffic. The usual assumption is that the effect of the externality will be perfectly reflected by house price differentials. This is based on the implicit assumption that there is a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762138
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Why is Old Workers' Labor Market More Volatile? Unemployment Fluctuations over the Life-Cycle
Hairault, Jean-Olivier; Langot, François; Sopraseuth, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Since the last recession, it is usually argued that older workers are less affected by the economic downturn because their unemployment rate rose less than the one of prime-age workers. This view is a myth: older workers are more sensitive to the business cycle. We document volatilities of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884226
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Old Money, the Nouveaux Riches and Brunhilde's Marriage Strategy
Bronsert, Anne-Kathrin; Glazer, Amihai; Konrad, Kai A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
A woman assessing the wealth of a potential husband may observe some, but not all, of his wealth. She may screen, leading to status consumption and wasteful gift giving. The screening activity is costly not only for the potential husband, but also for the woman, as it reduces the wealth of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884244
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The Impact of Internet Diffusion on Marriage Rates: Evidence from the Broadband Market
Bellou, Andriana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
The Internet has the potential to reduce search frictions by allowing individuals to identify faster a larger set of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010887066
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Immigration, Search, and Redistribution: A Quantitative Assessment of Native Welfare
Battisti, Michele; Felbermayr, Gabriel; Peri, Giovanni; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We study the effects of immigration on native welfare in a general equilibrium model featuring two skill types, search … studied, immigration attenuates the effects of search frictions. These gains tend to outweigh the welfare costs of … in two thirds of countries, contrary to what models without search frictions predict. Average total gains from …
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