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Chen, Yiu Por - 2015

China's initial reform period. A Heckman model is employed to correct for the zero observation problems and to consistently …

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Occupational dualism and intergenerational educational mobility in the rural economy: evidence from China and India

Emran, M. Shahe; Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Jiang, Yajing; … - 2020

farm-nonfarm occupational dualism and provides a comparative analysis of rural China and rural India. The model builds a … India faced lower educational mobility compared with the sons in rural China in the 1970s to 1990s. To understand the role … solely to genetic correlations in China, but not in India. Father's nonfarm occupation was complementary to his education in …

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Smarter through social protection? : evaluating the impact of Ethiopia's safety-net on child cognitive abilities

Favara, Marta; Porter, Catherine; Woldehanna, Tassew - 2017

We provide new estimates of the impact of Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP) in Ethiopia on child cognitive achievement in the medium term. The programme is the second largest in Africa, and has been rolled out to almost 10 million beneficiaries since 2005. We exploit four rounds...

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Options to quit

Pfann, Gerard A. - 2000

This paper develops a theoretical model of a worker's decision problem under uncertainty about the optimal separation time, when holding a representative outside offer but facing fixed costs of quitting. Implications of the model's closed form solution are consistent with the quit behavior of...

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Birds, birds, birds : co-worker similarity, workplace diversity, and voluntary turnover

Hirsch, Boris; Jahn, Elke J.; Zwick, Thomas - 2019

We investigate how the demographic composition of the workforce along the sex, nationality, education, age, and tenure …

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Looking inside the perpetual-motion machine : job and worker flows in OECD countries

Bassanini, Andrea; Marianna, Pascal - 2009

There is an increasing interest in the process of job creation and destruction as well of hirings and separations. Many studies suggest that idiosyncratic firm-level characteristics shape both job and worker flows in a similar way in all countries. Others argue that cross-country differences in...

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High wage workers match with high wage firms : clear evidence of the effects of limited mobility bias

Andrews, Martyn J.; Gill, Leonard; Schank, Thorsten; … - 2012

Positive assortative matching implies that high productivity workers and firms match together. However, there is almost no evidence of a positive correlation between the worker and firm contributions in two-way fixed-effects wage equations. This could be the result of a bias caused by standard...

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Temporary contracts and monopsony power in the UK labour market

Tabasso, Domenico - 2011

This paper addresses the applicability of the theory of equalizing differences (Rosen, 1987) in a market in which temporary and permanent workers co-exist. The assumption of perfect competition in the labour market is directly questioned and a model is developed in which the labour market is...

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Examining the relationship between employee resistance to changes in job conditions and wider organisational change : evidence from Ireland

Cronin, Hugh; McGuinness, Séamus - 2014

implementation of firm-level policies aimed at increasing competitiveness and workforce flexibility. Key finding arising from the … research is that while workforce resistance to job-related change often forces firms to seek alternative means of achieving … incidence of workforce resistance to changes in job conditions. …

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Unemployment and endogenous reallocation over the business cycle

Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos; Visschers, Ludo - 2013

We build an analytically and computationally tractable stochastic equilibrium model of unemployment in heterogeneous labor markets. Facing search frictions within markets and reallocation frictions between markets, workers endogenously separate from employment and endogenously reallocate between...

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