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This paper employs survey data on the reasons to quit of Dutch job changers who entered or left a public sector job in 2001. We show that workers' reasons to quit their public sector job influence their decision to stay in or leave their industry of employment. A bad experience with, for...
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Using survey data of public sector employees in the Netherlands, this paper shows that workers' satisfaction with various job domains not only affects whether but also where workers search for another job. An intuitive pattern emerges. Workers try to leave their current employer when their job...
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We analyze a general search model with on-the-job search and sorting of heterogeneous workers into heterogeneous jobs. This model yields a simple relationship between (i) the unemployment rate, (ii) the value of non-market time, and (iii) the max-mean wage differential. The latter measure of...
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Recent research has shown that the standard labor market matching model fails to match the dynamics of US data. In particular, the model lacks sufficient propagation of shocks. This paper shows that refining the informational structure of the model leads to significant improvements along this...
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This paper examines the relationship between entrepreneurship (as measured by fluctuations in the business ownership rate) and unemployment in Japan for the period between 1972 and 2002. We find that, although Japan’s unemployment rate has been influenced by specific exogenous shocks, the...
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To achieve sustainable economic growth in transition countries, it is crucial that enterprise performance is improved … restructuring, ownership, competition, budget constraints and, particularly, institutions in Russian industry, covering the period … relatively positive assessment of formal and informal institutions respectively, and largely the same ruling networks as before …
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, economic resources, and to documented cross-national variation in labor market and social security institutions. Differential …
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Anti-dumping actions are now the trade policy of choice of developing and transition economies. To understand why these …
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entrepreneurs operating legal businesses in a transition context. Using regression techniques on a sample of 399 private business …
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This paper focuses on ignored issues regarding the impact of trade reforms in transition economies. These economies are … and international trade. First, we show that trade liberalization in transition economies reduces the output of local …
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