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Employees Who Become Self-Employed: Do Labour Income and Wages Have an Impact?
Andersson, Pernilla; Wadensjö, Eskil - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
This paper analyzes the self-employment decision among Swedish-born male employees. The main objective of the paper is to investigate the impact of the relation between the actual and the predicted income on the probability to become self-employed. The predicted income is calculated from a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763909
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Multiple Equilibria and Minimum Wages in Labor Markets with Informational Frictions and Heterogeneous Production Technologies
den Berg, Gerard J. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
wage affects wages even though, after imposition, the lowest wage in the market exceeds the minimum wage. The model has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703158
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Active Labor Market Policy Effects for Women in Europe: A Survey
Bergemann, Annette; Berg, Gerard J. van den - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
We survey the recent literature on the effects of active labor market policies on individual labor market outcomes like employment and income, for adult female individuals without work in European countries. We consider skill-training programs, monitoring and sanctions, job search assistance,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703577
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The Aggregate Labor Market Effects of the Swedish Knowledge Lift Program
Albrecht, James; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Vroman, Susan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
The Swedish adult education program known as the Knowledge Lift (1997-2002) was unprecedented in its size and scope, aiming to raise the skill level of large numbers of lowskill workers. This paper evaluates the potential effects of this program on aggregate labor market outcomes. This is done...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822408
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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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A Note on Risk Aversion and Labour Market Outcomes: Further Evidence from German Survey Data
Pfeifer, Christian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
, employer change, quits, training, wages, and job satisfaction). …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762412
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Empirical Labor Search: A Survey
Eckstein, Zvi; den Berg, Gerard J. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
This paper surveys the existing empirical research that uses search theory to empirically analyze labor supply … questions in a structural framework, using data on individual labor market transitions and durations, wages, and individual … dynamic optimization theory. We develop a general framework for the labor market where the search for a job involves dynamic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762359
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Screening for Honesty
Ruffle, Bradley; Tobol, Yossi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We report the results of a field experiment on honesty conducted on 427 Israeli soldiers fulfilling their mandatory military service. Each soldier rolled a six-sided die in private and reported the outcome to the unit's cadet coordinator. For every point reported, the soldier received an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884262
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The Firm Size Distribution across Countries and Skill-Biased Change in Entrepreneurial Technology
Poschke, Markus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
newly introduces the last three to the literature. It then proposes a simple theory of skill-biased change in … others, they stay closer to the frontier, while others fall behind. Because wages rise for all workers, marginal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884221
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Recovering Ex Ante Returns and Preferences for Occupations using Subjective Expectations Data
Arcidiacono, Peter; Hotz, V. Joseph; Maurel, Arnaud; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We show that data on subjective expectations, especially on outcomes from counterfactual choices and choice probabilities, are a powerful tool in recovering ex ante treatment effects as well as preferences for different treatments. In this paper we focus on the choice of occupation, and use...
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