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The provision of wage insurance by the firm : evidence from a longitudinal matched employer-employee dataset
Cardoso, Ana Rute (contributor); Portela, Miguel (contributor) - 2005
uncertainty ; wage shocks ; risk sharing ; wage insurance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003212064
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Labour turnover and the spatial distribution of unemployment : a panel data analysis using employment registry data
Pastore, Francesco; Tyrowicz, Joanna - 2012
from the employment registry of a transition economy (Poland), encompassing nine years of monthly data (from 2000 to 2008 … ; panel data ; Poland …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009680699
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The risk and return of human capital investments
Koerselman, Kristian; Uusitalo, Roope - 2013
Investing in human capital increases lifetime income, but these investments may involve substantial risk. In this paper … vocational high school. Accounting for risk does little to change this picture. By contrast, vocational high school is associated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010221567
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Forecasting with spatial panel data
Baltagi, Badi H.; Bresson, Georges; Pirotte, Alain - 2009
This paper compares various forecasts using panel data with spatial error correlation. The true data generating process is assumed to be a simple error component regression model with spatial remainder disturbances of the autoregressive or moving average type. The best linear unbiased predictor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003858869
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Portfolio allocation, income uncertainty and households' flight from risk
Brown, Sarah; Gray, Daniel; Harris, Mark N.; Spencer, … - 2016
households reduce their financial risk exposure when confronted with background risk. Our novel modelling approach - termed a … risk, and is unique in recovering for, any given risky asset class, the shares that are reallocated to a safer asset … category. Background risk exerts a significant impact on household portfolios, resulting in a 'flight from risk', away from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011594575
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Technical change and total factor productivity growth : the case of Chinese provinces
Heshmati, Almas; Kumbhakar, Subal - 2010
In the literature technical change is mostly assumed to be exogenous and specified as a function of time. However, some exogenous external factors other than time can also affect technical change. In this paper we model technical change via time trend (purely external non-economic) as well as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003941555
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Stimulating local public employment : do general grants work?
Lundqvist, Heléne; Dahlberg, Matz; Mörk, Eva - 2010
The effectiveness of public funds in increasing public employment has long been a question on public and labor economists' minds. In most federal countries local governments employ large fractions of the working population, meaning that a tool for stimulating local public employment can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009006942
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Within- and cross-firm mobility and earnings growth
Frederiksen, Anders; Halliday, Timothy; Koch, Alexander K. - 2010
While it is well established that both promotions within firms and mobility across firms lead to significant earnings progression, little is known about the interaction between these types of mobility. Exploiting a large Danish panel data set and controlling for unobserved individual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009007002
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Stepping stones versus dead end jobs : exits from temporary contracts in Italy after the 2003 reform
Bruno, Giovanni; Caroleo, Floro Ernesto; Dessy, Orietta - 2012
discrete-time duration analysis and estimate a competing-risk model for assessing to which extent, and for whom, starting a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009570171
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Identifying regional labor demand shocks using sign restrictions
Juessen, Falko; Linnemann, Ludger - 2012
We propose using sign restrictions to identify regional labor demand shocks in a panel VAR of US federal states. Observed migration responds significantly, but less persistently than the residual-based migration measure constructed by Blanchard and Katz (1992). -- regional labor markets ;...
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