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The Effects of Displacement on Self-employment Survival

Nykvist, Jenny - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008

A large literature has studied the effect of displacement on labor market outcomes in general, but none has evaluated … how the displaced manage as self-employed. This paper studies how the survival of the business is affected by displacement …-displaced individuals. The main result of the paper is that, as a consequence of previous displacement, the probability of switching from …

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Manager's Incentives and Individual Wealth

Gaumont, D.; Merlateau, M.P. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1993

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How Wage Compression Affects Job Turnover

Heyman, Fredrik - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008

I use Swedish establishment-level panel data to test Bertola and Rogerson’s (1997) hypothesis of a positive relation between the degree of wage compression and job reallocation. Results indicate that the effect of wage compression on job turnover is positive and significant in the...

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Decentralisation of Active Labour Market Policy: The Case of Swedish Local Employment Service Committees.

Lundin, M.; Skedinger, P. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2000

Decentralisation of decision-making in active labour market policy makes it possible to use local information to the fullest, but may also impinge on the fulfilment of national objectives, as suggested by principal-agent theory. The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of a Swedish...

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City Structure, Job Search, and Labor Discrimination. Theory and Policy Implications

Selod, Harris; Zenou, Yves - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2004

We consider a search-matching model in which black workers are discriminated against and the job arrival rates of all workers depend on social networks as well as distance to jobs. Location choices are driven by the racial preferences of households (both blacks and whites) consciously choosing...

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Endogenous Job Destruction and Job Matching in Cities

Zenou, Yves - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008

We propose a spatial search-matching model where both job creation and job destruction are endogenous. Workers are ex ante identical but not ex post since their job can be hit by a technological shock, which decreases their productivity. They reside in a city and commuting to the job center...

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Efficiency Wages, Urban Unemployment and Housing Consumption

Zenou, Yves - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2003

The aim of this paper is to introduce endogenous housing consumption in an efficiency wage model in which two cases are considered: very high and zero relocation costs. First, in both cases, we are able to totally characterize the efficiency wage for any preferences that are quasi-linear with...

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The Todaro Paradox Revisited

Zenou, Yves - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2005

The Todaro Paradox states that policies aimed at reducing urban unemployment are bound to backfire: they will raise rather than reduce urban unemployment. The aim of this paper is to reexamine this paradox in the context of efficiency wage and search-matching models. For that, we study a policy...

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Are Shirking and Leisure Substitutable? An Empirical Test of Efficiency Wages Based on Urban Economic Theory

Ross, Stephen L.; Zenou, Yves - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008

Recent theoretical work has examined the spatial distribution of unemployment using the efficiency wage model as the mechanism by which unemployment arises in the urban economy. This paper extends the standard efficiency wage model in order to allow for behavioral substitution between leisure...

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Shirking, Commuting and Labor Market Outcomes

Ross, Stephen L.; Zenou, Yves - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2004

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