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Overeducation at the Start of the Career - Stepping Stone or Trap?
Baert, Stijn; Cockx, Bart; Verhaest, Dieter - 2012
overeducation measures. -- overqualification ; underemployment ; school-to-work transitions ; duration analysis ; dynamic treatment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009540102
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Trade Union Membership and Dismissals
Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2010
In Germany, there is no trade union membership wage premium, while the membership fee amounts to 1% of the gross wage. Therefore, prima facie, there are strong incentives to free-ride on the benefits of trade unionism. We establish empirical evidence for a private gain from trade union...
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The impact of wage-setting institutions on the incidence of public employment in the OECD : 1960 - 98
Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2002
Using data on 17 OECD countries for 1960-98, this paper studies the impact of unions on public employment incidence, using macrodata and microdata. Macrodata show that greater coverage by centralized collective bargaining institutions raises the public employment share, controlling for country...
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Job satisfaction and trade union membership in Germany
Goerke, Laszlo; Huang, Yue - 2022
estimation models, we investigate whether the effects vary by gender, age, birth year, and employment status. …
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Why are single-sex schools successful?
Dustmann, Christian; Ku, Hyejin; Kwak, Do Won - 2017
We exploit two unusual policy features of academic high schools in Seoul, South Korea - random assignment of pupils to high schools within districts and conversion of some existing single-sex schools to the coeducational (coed) type over time - to identify three distinct causal parameters: the...
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Education, lack of complementary investment and underemployment in an open economy
Marjit, Sugata; Ahuja, Rashmi; Pandey, Abhilasha - 2021
underemployment. Our paper offers to look at skill formation as a demand side problem not as a traditional supply side problem and … group leading to underemployment through the expansion of the informal sector. Both effects are due to shortage of …
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Structural unemployment, underemployment, and secular stagnation
Hashimoto, Ken'ichi; Ono, Yoshiyasu; Schlegl, Matthias - 2020
economy permanently operates below capacity due to both structural unemployment and underemployment. The latter is a direct … underemployment. In contrast, the effects of wage and cost shocks depend on the degree of aggregate demand shortage, but they can … explain movements of unemployment and underemployment in opposite directions. Finally, we show that fluctuations in the total …
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Investing in biogas: timing, technological choice and the value of flexibility from inputs mix
Di Corato, Luca; Moretto, Michele - 2009
In a continuous-time framework we study the technology and investment choice problem of a continuous co-digestion biogas plant dealing with randomly fluctuating relative convenience of input factor costs. Input factors enter into the productive process together mixed according to a given initial...
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Offshoring and skill-upgrading in French manufacturing : a Heckscher-Ohlin-Melitz view
Carluccio, Juan; Cuñat, Alejandro; Fadinger, Harald; … - 2015
We present a factor-proportions trade model in which heterogeneous firms can offshore intermediate inputs subject to fixed offshoring costs. In the skill-abundant country, high-productivity firms offshore a larger range of labor-intensive inputs to the labor-abundant countries than...
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The substitution elasticity, factor shares, long-run growth, and the low-frequency panel model
Chirinko, Robert S.; Mallick, Debdulal - 2014
identify the low-frequency/long-run relations appropriate to production function estimation. Our low … investment. While their estimation strategies and ours are similar in relying on permanent (long-run) components, we identify … standard estimation methods, which do not filter-out transitory variation, generate downwardly biased estimates. As medium and …
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