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Uniform and nonuniform staggering of wage contracts
Danziger, Leif - 2010
This paper provides a model that can account for the almost uniform staggering of wage contracts in some countries as well as for the markedly nonuniform staggering in others. In the model, short and long contracts as well as long contracts concluded in different periods are strategic...
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Limited commitment models of the labor market
Thomas, Jonathan P.; Worrall, Tim - 2007
We present an overview of models of long-term self-enforcing labor contracts in which risk sharing is the dominant motive for contractual solutions. A base model is developed which is sufficiently general to encompass the two-agent problem central to most of the literature, including variable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264220
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Time limits on welfare use under involuntary unemployment
Holzner, Christian; Meier, Volker; Werding, Martin - 2004
The impacts of introducing or tightening time limits on welfare use are studied in an efficiency wage model. Those losing access to regular benefits receive some smaller benefit, which can be interpreted as food stamps. Stricter time limits raise both employment and profits and generally reduce...
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Fixed-Term and Permanent Employment Contracts : Theory and Evidence
Cao, Shutao - 2014
This paper constructs a theory of the coexistence of fixed-term and permanent employment contracts in an environment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013069444
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How do extended benefits affect unemployment duration?: A regression discontinuity approach
Lalive, Rafael - 2006
This paper studies a program that extends the maximum duration of unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to 209 weeks … regions to identify the effect of extended benefits on unemployment duration. Results indicate that the duration of job search … is prolonged by at least .09 weeks per additional week of benefits among men, whereas unemployment duration increases by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263951
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Die another day: duration in German import trade
Nitsch, Volker - 2007
for just a few, often only one to three, years. In this paper, I examine empirically the duration in German import trade … characteristics, product type and market structure. Specifically, I show that the duration of exporting a product to Germany is longer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264198
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How changes in financial incentives affect the duration of unemployment
Lalive, Rafael; van Ours, Jan C.; Zweimüller, Josef - 2004
) and the potential duration of benefits (PBD) – affect the duration of unemployment. In 1989, the Austrian government made … unemployment insurance more generous by changing, simultaneously, the maximum duration of regular unemployment benefits and the … the maximum duration of benefits. We use these results to split up the total costs to unemployment insurance funds into …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277283
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Quick job entry or long-term human capital development? The dynamic effects of alternative training schemes
Osikominu, Aderonke - 2012
This paper investigates how precisely short-term, job-search oriented training programs as opposed to long-term, human capital intensive training programs work. We evaluate and compare their effects on time until job entry, stability of employment, and earnings. Further, we examine the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282053
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Cash-on-Hand and the duration of job search: Quasi-experimental evidence from Norway
Basten, Christoph; Fagereng, Andreas; Telle, Kjetil - 2012
We identify the causal effect of lump-sum severance payments on non-employment duration in Norway by exploiting a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283587
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Institutions and contract enforcement
Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; MacLeod, W. Bentley - 2008
We provide evidence on how two important types of institutions - dismissal barriers, and bonus pay - affect contract enforcement behavior in a market with incomplete contracts and repeated interactions. Dismissal barriers are shown to have a strong negative impact on worker performance, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264349