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Labor market concentration
Azar, José; Marinescu, Ioana; Steinbaum, Marshall - 2017
A product market is concentrated when a few firms dominate the market. Similarly, a labor market is concentrated when a few firms dominate hiring in the market. Using data from the leading employment website CareerBuilder.com, we calculate labor market concentration for over 8,000...
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Concentration in US labor markets : evidence from online vacancy data
Azar, José; Marinescu, Ioana; Steinbaum, Marshall; … - 2018
Using data on the near-universe of online US job vacancies collected by Burning Glass Technologies in 2016, we calculate labor market concentration using the Herfindahl-Hirschman index (HHI) for each commuting zone by 6-digit SOC occupation. The average market has an HHI of 3,953, or the...
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Overnight information and stochastic volatility : a study of European and US stock exchanges
Tsiakas, Ilias - In: Journal of banking & finance 32 (2008) 2, pp. 251-268
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Factorization of European and American option prices under complete and incomplete markets
Ibáñez, Alfredo - In: Journal of banking & finance 32 (2008) 2, pp. 311-325
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Can the evolution of implied volatility be forecasted? : evidence from European and US implied volatility indices
Konstantinidi, Eirini; Skiadopoulos, George; … - In: Journal of banking & finance 32 (2008) 11, pp. 2401-2411
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An econometric analysis of emission allowance prices
Paolella, Marc S.; Taschini, Luca - In: Journal of banking & finance 32 (2008) 10, pp. 2022-2032
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The distribution of total work in the EU and US
Burda, Michael C. (contributor);  … - 2006
Using two time-diary data sets each for Germany, Italy the Netherlands and the U.S. from 1985-2003, we demonstrate that Americans work more than Europeans: 1) in the market; 2) in total (market and home production)-- there is no one-for-one tradeoff across countries in total work; 3) at unusual...
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Welfare migration in Europe and the cost of a harmonised social assistance
De Giorgi, Giacomo (contributor);  … - 2006
the actual implementation of this system would be politically problematic. -- EU enlargement ; migration ; welfare state …
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Unequal pay or unequal employment? : A cross-country analysis of gender gaps
Olivetti, Claudia (contributor);  … - 2006
explore this idea across the US and EU by estimating gender gaps in potential wages. We recover information on wages for those … small in the US, the UK and most central and northern EU countries, and becomes sizeable in Ireland, France and southern EU …
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Migration in an enlarged EU : a challenging solution?
Kahanec, Martin (contributor);  … - 2008
analysis of the available literature and empirical evidence shows that (i) EU enlargement had a significant impact on migration … hard to detect, (iv) post-enlargement migration contributes to growth prospects of the EU, (v) these immigrants are … out the difficulties that restrictions on the free movement of workers bring about. -- Migration ; migration effects ; EU …
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