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Beyond "manucentrism" : some fresh facts about job and worker flows
Bingley, Paul; Eriksson, Tor; Werwatz, Axel; … - 1999
This paper gives a comprehensive picture of job and worker flows for the entire Danish economy. We exploit a unique central administrative register encompassing all employees of all workplaces across all sectors throughout two business cycles. This enables us to broaden the focus of the previous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009581098
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Externalities in the matching of workers and firms in Britain
Burgess, Simon M.; Profit, Stefan - 1998
We provide empirical evidence on the nature of spatial externalities in a matching model for the UK. We use a monthly panel of outflows, unemployment and vacancy stocks data from the registers at Jobcentres in the UK; these are mapped on to travel-to-work areas. We find evidence of significant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009576211
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Twin peaks in regional unemployment and returns to scale in job-matching in the Czech Republic
Profit, Stefan - 1997
the share of district employment in the private sector. -- returns to scale ; Czech Republic ; regional labor markets …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009659065
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Fixed-term contracts in East and West Germany : low wages, poor prospects?
McGinnity, Frances; Mertens, Antje - 2002 - Rev.
Amid lively debate on the consequences of temporary employment, the paper examines the wages and transitions of … same employer. For some temporary employment leads to unemployment, particularly those with low human capital. Positioning … ourselves between arguments on the positive and negative consequences of temporary employment, we develop the idea of a two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009627289
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Employment duration and resistance to wage reductions : experimental evidence
Burda, Michael C.; Güth, Werner; Kirchsteiger, Georg; … - 1998 - Rev.
lower competitive wage in the second phase of an employment relationship that is known to both parties. The experiment casts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009578579
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Using private job agencies : optimal screening or cream skimming?
Kübler, Dorothea - 1997
and private employment services is analyzed. The coexistence of an inefficient employment exchange and an efficient … information rent if the employment exchange is inefficient and the employer chooses not to use the private agency. -- principal … agent ; screening contracts ; employment services …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009658470
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Unemployment and input prices : a fractional cointegration approach
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alaña, Luis A. - 2000
This paper examines the relationship between unemployment, real oil price and real interest rates in Canada. Instead of following the classical approach based on I(0) stationarity or I(1) cointegrating relationships, we use fractional integration/cointegration techniques which allow for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009614880
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Fractional integration and the dynamics of UK unemployment
Gil-Alaña, Luis A.; Henry, S. G. B. - 2000
This article is concerned with the dynamic behaviour of UK unemployment. However, instead of using traditional approaches based on I(0) stationary or I(1) (integrated and/or cointegrated) models, we use the fractional integration framework. In doing so, we allow for a more careful study of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009582384
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Fragmentation, globalization and labor markets
Burda, Michael C.; Dluhosch, Barbara - 2001 - Rev.
employment as well as in the skilled wage premia, as observed in OECD countries. These implications can be reversed, however, as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009614300
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Non-uniformity of job-matching in a transition economy : a nonparametric analysis for the Czech Republic
Profit, Stefan; Sperlich, Stefan - 1998
We consider problems in modelling job-matching in the Czech Republic during the transition to a market economy. Special interest is devoted to functional form considerations and the analysis of returns to scale of the matching function. This explorative study aims to shed some light into the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009574874