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Risk sharing in labour markets
Bigsten, Arne; Collier, Paul; Dercon, Stefan; … - 2003 - Rev.
-sections between wages and profitability. The alternative explanation of risk sharing between workers and employers has not been tested …. Using a unique panel data set for four African countries we find strong evidence of risk sharing. Workers in effect offer … insurance to employers: when firms are hit by temporary shocks the effect on profits is cushioned by risk sharing with workers …
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Risk sharing in labour markets
Bigsten, Arne (contributor) - 2003
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Growth and risk : methodology and micro evidence
Elbers, Chris; Gunning, Jan Willem; Kinsey, Bill H. - 2003
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Evidence on informal insurance in rural Zimbabwe
Hoogeveen, Johannes - 2001
employed for data on rural Zimbabwe. The presence of full insurance isrejected. …
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Evidence on informal insurance in rural Zimbabwe
Hoogeveen, Johannes - 2000
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On the timing of marriage, cattle and weather shocks
Hoogeveen, Johannes; Klaauw, Bas van der; Lomwel, … - 2004
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Convergence, shocks and poverty
Elbers, Chris; Gunning, Jan Willem; Kinsey, Bill H. - 2002
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The impact of matching mission preferences on well-being at work
Zoutenbier, Robin - 2014
A recent literature in economics assumes that workers differ in their mission preferences. These studies predict a premium on the matching of mission preferences between a worker and employer. This paper uses data from the Dutch LISS panel to examine this prediction for government workers....
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Understanding the role of the Public Employment Agency
Holzner, Christian; Watanabe, Makoto - 2016
Using a unique vacancy dataset, we find that the Public Employment Agency (PEA) distributes workers more evenly across vacancies than the private market. We investigate the implications of having such a market place by using a directed search model, where firms can search via the PEA or the...
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Managerial talent, motivation, and self-selection into public management
Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert A. J. - 2008
The quality of public management is a recurrent concern in many countries. Calls to attract the economy's best and brightest managers to the public sector abound. This paper studies self-selection into managerial and non-managerial positions in the public and private sector, using a model of a...
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