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The Dilemma of Delegating Search: Budgeting in Public Employment Services

Addison, John T.; Altemeyer-Bartscher, Martin; Kuhn, Thomas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

The poor performance often attributed to many public employment services may be explained in part by a delegation problem between the central office and local job centers. In markets characterized by frictions, job centers function as match-makers, linking job seekers with relevant vacancies....

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A Search Model of Discouragement

Rosholm, Michael; Toomet, Ott - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

Discouragement is a process occurring during an unemployment spell. As the spell prolongs, an individual gradually realises that the returns to search can no longer outweigh search costs, and hence she may eventually leave the labour force. This is analysed theoretically in a framework of...

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Do Cows Have Negative Returns? The Evidence Revisited

Gehrke, Esther; Grimm, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

as an instrument for investment in cattle. We find average returns in the order of -2% at the mean, but they vary across …

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The Causal Effects of an Industrial Policy

Criscuolo, Chiara; Martin, Ralf; Overman, Henry; Van … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

positive program treatment effect on employment, investment and net entry but not on TFP. OLS underestimates program effects …,300 suggesting that in some respects investment subsidies can be cost effective. …

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Equilibrium Unemployment and Investment Under Product and Labour Market Imperfections

Kauppi, Heikki; Koskela, Erkki; Stenbacka, Rune - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

We study the implications of product market competition and investment for price setting, wage bargaining and thereby …

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Human Capital Investment with Competitive Labor Search

Kaas, Leo; Zink, Stefan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

investment in skill-intensive technologies. A public education system funded by graduate taxes can restore efficiency. More …

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Non-Linearities in the Expansion of Capital Stock

Verick, Sher; Letterie, Wilko; Pfann, Gerard - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

The empirical identification of non-linearities in investment relies on how investment is assumed to be separated into … investment which allows us to observe regime separation, an aspect of the data that is typically absent from previous empirical … concentrating investment in a single year. Moreover, there is evidence that investment is more sensitive to fundamentals in the high …

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The Course of Research into the Economic Consequences of German Works Councils

Addison, John T.; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

In a survey published in the British Journal of Industrial Relations, Frege (2002) evaluates research on the German works council from the perspective of several disciplines, including economics. Ultimately, she concludes that economic analysis of the works council has reached a ‘dead end’....

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Interprovincial Migration in China: The Effects of Investment and Migrant Networks

Bodvarsson, Orn B.; Bao, Shuming; Hou, Jack W.; Zhao, Yaohui - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Since the 1980s, China’s government has eased restrictions on internal migration. This easing, along with rapid growth of the Chinese economy and substantial increases in foreign and domestic investments, has greatly stimulated internal migration. Earlier studies have established that...

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Dynamics of Labour and Capital Adjustment - A Comparison of Germany and the Netherlands

Polder, Michael; Verick, Sher - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

dynamics as investment conditions are similar. Our results are consistent with this hypothesis. Furthermore, there is no …

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