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Dismissal rules, i.e. legally enforced long term contracts, have beem defended against criticism for, among other things, providing efficient incentives to invest in relationship specific skills. However, in many situations efficient investment can also be attained by spot contracts. We...
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workers lose more human capital than bad types in periods of unemployment or mismatch. A bad type of worker earns an …
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same employer. For some temporary employment leads to unemployment, particularly those with low human capital. Positioning …-tier labour market for temporary employment in Germany. -- mobility ; unemployment ; Fixed-term contracts ; dynamic wages …
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increases in unemployment. Put differently, if the competitive market wage declines, why don’t employers simply force their …
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This paper examines the relationship between unemployment, real oil price and real interest rates in Canada. Instead of …/cointegration techniques which allow for the possibility that unemployment is highly persistent. In line with other studies, we find that all … equilibrium model with highly persistent shocks might be adequate to account for the observed behaviour of unemployment …
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This article is concerned with the dynamic behaviour of UK unemployment. However, instead of using traditional … suggest that the UK unemployment may be explained in terms of lagged values of the real oil prices and the real interest rate …, with the order of integration of unemployment ranging between 0.50 and 1. Thus, unemployment shows the characteristics of …
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proposed in this article for modelling the U.K. unemployment. This enables us a better understanding of the low … fractional integration, may be a feasible way of modelling unemployment, also showing that its order of integration is much … erroneous results. -- long memory ; unemployment ; fractional integration …
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Modern 'principal-agent theory' has made a lot of progress in proposing theoretical Solutions to agency problems. This paper contributes to a better understanding of behavior in agency situations. In particular, we provide experimental evidence on offered contracts and effort choices in a simple...
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This paper investigates the effect of displacement on reemployment wages of socially insured West German workers who became unemployed in 1986. Because detailed information on the cause of job loss is unavailable, displacement status is imputed using a probit estimated on the German...
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jobs in rough times separate analyses are carried out those who have entered the job directly from unemployment or non …
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