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Measuring Labor Market Frictions: A Cross-Country Comparison
Ridder, Geert; den Berg, Gerard J. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
applied to aggregate duration data. It does not require wage data, it is invariant to the way in which wages are determined …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822504
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The Economics of Risky Health Behaviors
Cawley, John; Ruhm, Christopher J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
outcomes such as medical care costs, educational attainment, employment, wages, and crime. It also reviews the research on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009024597
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Personality Psychology and Economics
Almlund, Mathilde; Duckworth, Angela Lee; Heckman, James J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper explores the power of personality traits both as predictors and as causes of academic and economic success, health, and criminal activity. Measured personality is interpreted as a construct derived from an economic model of preferences, constraints, and information. Evidence is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008839282
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The Impact of Immigration on the Labour Market Outcomes of Native-Born Canadians
Tu, Jiong - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Although immigration has become a major growth factor for Canadian labour force, there is little economic research on the effect of immigration on native-born Canadians' labour market performance. This paper examines the relationship between changes in the share of immigrants by sub-labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008466459
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The Economics of Communist Party Membership: The Curious Case of Rising Numbers and Wage Premium during China’s Transition
Appleton, Simon; Knight, John; Song, Lina; Xia, Qingjie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
wages. This wage premium has risen with the growing wage differentials associated with the emergence of a labour market and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761810
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Labour Contracts and Performance of Cameroonian Firms
Fomba Kamga, Benjamin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
The aim of this study is to evaluate employees' productivity in relation to their contract status. This study uses (a) survey data collected among manufacturing sector firms, having more than 15 employees, in Cameroon between April and May 2006 and (b) information issued by the National...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009404597
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Mindestlohnevaluation jetzt und nicht erst 2020
Arni, Patrick; Eichhorst, Werner; Spermann, Alexander; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
– wie zum Beispiel die Einführung einer Evaluationsklausel – bleibt der Mindestlohn ein arbeitsmarktpolitisches … Großexperiment. Um die Flurschäden am Arbeitsmarkt möglichst gering zu halten, empfehlen die Autoren, Langzeitarbeitslose ein Jahr … lang und freiwillige Praktika für Studierende länger als sechs Wochen vom Mindestlohn auszunehmen. Sie plädieren für die …
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Kein Mindestlohn ohne unabhängige wissenschaftliche Evaluation
Arni, Patrick; Eichhorst, Werner; Pestel, Nico; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Folgeschäden für den Arbeitsmarkt transparent zu machen. Dies lässt Politik und Wählern eine faire Option für eine Kurskorrektur. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884072
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Wie weiter am deutschen Arbeitsmarkt?
Eichhorst, Werner - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Der deutsche Arbeitsmarkt hat sich in den letzten Jahren stark verändert. Es sind viele zusätzliche Arbeitsplätze … gleichzeitig die Unterschiede auf dem Arbeitsmarkt etwas einzudämmen, ohne die Flexibilität des Beschäftigungssystems über Gebühr …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010698822
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Minimum Wage: Does It Improve Welfare in Thailand?
Del Carpio, Ximena; Messina, Julián; Sanz-de-Galdeano, Anna - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
-in-difference approach that relies on exogenous policy variation in minimum wages across provinces. We find that minimum-wage increases have … small disemployment effects on female, elderly, and less-educated workers and large positive effects on the wages of prime …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884132