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Active Labour Market Policies, Job Matching and the Czech Miracle

Boeri, Tito; Burda, Michael C - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

A common explanation of low unemployment rates in the Czech Republic (CR) is the stance of active labour market … unemployment into employment. …

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Enforcement of Employment Security Regulations, On-The-Job Search and Unemployment Duration

Boeri, Tito - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

coexistence of strict employment security regulations, significant job-to-job shifts and high long-term unemployment rates in …

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Financial Constraints in Search Equilibrium

Boeri, Tito; Garibaldi, Pietro; Moen, Espen R - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

The Great Recession has indicated that firms' leverage and access to finance are important for hiring and firing decisions. It is now empirically established that bank lending is correlated to employment losses when credit conditions deteriorate. We provide further evidence of this drawing on a...

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Returns to Mobility in the Transition to a Market Economy

Boeri, Tito; Flinn, Christopher J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

across sectors and occupations. Such low mobility can be explained by low returns to job changes as well as by market … generosity of unemployment benefits will not significantly boost outflows from the unemployment state. These findings support … explanations for low mobility in transitional economies, which are based on informational failures, and high costs of moving from …

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The Effects of Employment Protection: Learning from Variable Enforcement

Boeri, Tito; Jimeno, Juan F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

Employment protection legislations (EPL) are not enforced uniformly across the board. There are a number of exemptions to the coverage of these provisions: firms below a given threshold scale and workers with temporary contracts are not subject to the most restrictive provisions. This...

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Union Membership and Wage Bargaining When Membership is Not Compulsory

Booth, Alison L; Chatterji, Monojit - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

This paper develops a theoretical model of the <MI>simultaneous<D> determination of union wages and union membership, and empirically implements the model using the 1990 Workplace Industrial Relations Survey. The empirical literature on union wage gaps has long recognized that union membership may be...</d></mi>

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Why Do Firms Invest in General Training? 'Good' Firms and 'Bad' Firms as a Source of Monopsony Power

Booth, Alison L; Zoega, Gylfi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

We develop a model demonstrating conditions under which firms will invest in the general training of their workers, and show that firms’ incentives to invest in general training are increasing in task complexity. Workers’ heterogeneous observable innate ability affects the variety of tasks...

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Part-Time Employment Traps and Childcare Policy

Booth, Alison L; Coles, Melvyn G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

We model educational investment, wages and employment status (full-time, part-time or non-participation) in a frictional world in which heterogeneous workers have different productivities, both at home and in the workplace. We investigate the degree to which there might be under-employment and...

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Are There Asymmetries in the Effects of Training on the Conditional Male Wage Distribution?

Arulampalam, Wiji; Booth, Alison L; Bryan, Mark L - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

We use a quantile regression framework to investigate the degree to which work-related training affects the location, scale and shape of the conditional wage distribution. Human capital theory suggests that the percentage returns to training investments will be the same across the conditional...

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Increasing Returns to Education: Theory and Evidence

Booth, Alison L; Coles, Melvyn G; Gong, Xiaodong - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

We model educational investment and labour supply in a competitive economy with home and market production. Heterogeneous workers are assumed to have different productivities both at home and in the workplace. Following Rosen (1983), we show that there are private increasing returns to education...

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