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Real estate agents typically receive commissions based on a fixed percentage of home price purchases. Because housing prices vary across markets, one might expect that realtors have higher earnings in high-priced markets. Prior work by Hsieh and Moretti (2003) suggests that entry among realtors...
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We report results from a dictator game experiment with nurse students and real estate broker students as dictators, and Amnesty International as the recipient. Although brokers contributed substantial amounts, nurses contributed significantly more, on average 76 percent of their endowment. In a...
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Many economists suspect that downward nominal wage rigidities in ongoing labor contracts are an important source of employment fluctuations over the business cycle but there is little direct empirical evidence on this conjecture. This paper compares three occupations in the housing sector with...
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effect of a timing-chosen treatment on an event duration of interest does not hold. The main problem is that the … Statistical Society, Series B) that requires independence between the waiting duration until treatment and the event duration, but …
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negatively selected on unobservables. A beneficial (unemployment-duration reducing) causal effect of internet job search is …
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the hypothesis of positive duration dependence at the beginning of the transition and slightly negative thereafter … shortening the transition. Originality: Despite the duration of the STWT is one of the most important indicators to measure the …-linear duration dependence. Furthermore, they extend the analysis by including student-workers who attended a vocational path of …
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Empirical analyses of twin mortality often use models with dependent unobserved frailty terms capturing genetic and childhood environmental determinants. This ignores that mortality rates can be co-dependent due to bereavement effects, i.e. to a time-dependent causal effect of the loss of the...
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effects diminish with the elapsed unemployment duration until a sanction is imposed. The limited use of benefit sanctions can …
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; 6) time devoted to job search is fairly constant regardless of unemployment duration for those who are ineligible for UI …. A nonparametric Monte Carlo technique suggests that the relationship between job search effort and the duration of …
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unemployment, but has a significant and positive effect on the duration of the subsequent employment spell. Accounting for training … duration, we find that longer training spells cause longer unemployment spells, but also longer employment spells, suggesting … that training improves the matching process between jobseekers and firms. -- Training programmes ; unemployment duration …
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