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Gender Equity in Labor Market Opportunities and Aggregate Technical Efficiency : A Case of Equity Promoting Efficiency
Hazarika, Gautam; Khraiche, Maroula; Kutlu, Levent - 2023
This study applies a panel data stochastic frontier analysis to country data towards examining the effect of gender equity in labor market opportunities upon efficiency in the production of GDP. It finds that aggregate technical efficiency is improved by a widening of women's labor market...
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The Importance of Two-Sided Heterogeneity for the Cyclicality of Labour Market Dynamics
Bachmann, Ronald - 2010
Using administrative data on individual workers' employment history and firms, we investigate the cyclicality of worker flows on the German labour market. Focusing on heterogeneities on both sides of the labour market, we find that small firms hire mainly unemployed workers, and that they do so...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135186
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Occupational Choice and Matching in the Labor Market
Siow, Aloysius - 2017
Integrating Roy with Becker, this paper studies occupational choice and matching in the labor market. Our model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012962254
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Identifying Sorting : In Theory
Eeckhout, Jan - 2009
We argue that using wage data alone, it is virtually impossible to identify whether Assortative Matching between worker … and firm types is positive or negative. In standard competitive matching models the wages are determined by the marginal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764675
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International Assortative Matching in the European Labor Market
Peeters, Thomas; van Ours, Jan - 2022
We investigate whether national borders within Europe hinder the assortative matching of workers to firms in a high … productivity estimates and study the ensuing rank correlation to gauge the degree of assortative matching within and across … countries. We find strong evidence for positive assortative matching at the national level, and even more so at the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014077584
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Zero-Hours Contracts in a Frictional Labor Market
Dolado, Juan Jose; Lalé, Etienne; Turon, Hélène - 2022
We propose a model to evaluate the U.K.'s zero-hours contract (ZHC) a contract that exempts employers from the requirement to provide any minimum working hours, and allows employees to decline any workload. We find quantitatively that ZHCs improve welfare by enabling firms with more volatile...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083937
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Redistributive Politics and Market Efficiency : An Experimental Study
Großer, Jens - 2011
We study the interaction between competitive markets that produce large but unequally distributed welfare gains and elections through which the poor majority can redistribute income away from the rich minority. In our simple laboratory democracy, subjects first earn their income by trading in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134222
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Immigration, Family Responsibilities and the Labor Supply of Skilled Native Women
Farré, Lidia - 2009
This paper investigates the effects of Spain's large recent immigration wave on the labor supply of highly skilled native women. We hypothesize that female immigration led to an increase in the supply of affordable household services, such as housekeeping and child or elderly care. As a result,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158120
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Predictability of Asset Returns and the Efficient Market Hypothesis
Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2010
This paper is concerned with empirical and theoretical basis of the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH). The paper begins with an overview of the statistical properties of asset returns at different frequencies (daily, weekly and monthly), and considers the evidence on return predictability, risk...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141228
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When, Where and How to Perform Efficiency Estimation
Badunenko, Oleg - 2011
In this paper we compare two flexible estimators of technical efficiency in a cross-sectional setting: the nonparametric kernel SFA estimator of Fan, Li and Weersink (1996) to the nonparametric bias corrected DEA estimator of Kneip, Simar and Wilson (2008). We assess the finite sample...
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