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Good and Bad Institutions : Is the Debate Over? Cross-Country Firm-Level Evidence from the Textile Industry
Bhaumik, Sumon K. - 2011
Using firm-level data from nine developing countries we demonstrate that (a) certain institutions like restrictive labour market regulations that are considered to be bad for economic growth might be beneficial for production efficiency, whereas (b) good business environment which is considered...
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Competition, Group Identity, and Social Networks in the Workplace : Evidence from a Chinese Textile Firm
Kato, Takao - 2013
Using data on team assignment and weekly output for all weavers in an urban Chinese textile firm between April 2003 and March 2004, this paper studies a) how randomly assigned teammates affect an individual worker's behavior under a tournament-style incentive scheme, and b) how such effects...
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What Determines the Return to Education : An Extra Year or a Hurdle Cleared?
Dickson, Matthew - 2011
The 1973 Raising of the School Leaving Age in England and Wales has been used to identify returns to years' schooling. However, the reform affected the proportion with qualifications, as well as schooling length. To shed light on whether the returns reflect extra schooling or qualifications, we...
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Locus of Control and Job Search Strategies
Caliendo, Marco - 2011
Standard job search theory assumes that unemployed individuals have perfect information about the effect of their search effort on the job offer arrival rate. In this paper, we present an alternative model which assumes instead that each individual has a subjective belief about the impact of his...
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The Heterogeneous Effects of Training Incidence and Duration on Labor Market Transitions
Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2010
This paper estimates the impact of training incidence and duration on employment transitions accounting for the … endogeneity of program participation and duration. We specify a very flexible bivariate random effects probit model for employment …
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The Reservation Wage Unemployment Duration Nexus
Addison, John T. - 2010
involves conditioning elapsed duration on completed unemployment duration in the reservation wage equation. Our analysis … confirms that the use of elapsed duration alone compounds two separate and opposing influences. Only with the inclusion of … completed duration is the negative effect of continued joblessness on reservation wages apparent. For its part, the completed …
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It's About Time : Implications of the Period Length in an Equilibrium Job Search Model
Wolthoff, Ronald P. - 2011
This paper analyzes the role of the period length in a search model of the labor market and argues that it has profound implications for the market equilibrium. In the model, job offers and job destruction shocks arrive according to a Poisson process in continuous time, but institutional factors...
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Duration of Low Wage Employment : A Study Based on a Survival Model
Pimenta - 2011
This paper includes a survival analysis which attempts to explain the duration, as in the number of years a worker …
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Is Internet Job Search Still Ineffective?
Kuhn, Peter - 2011
While the Internet has been found to reduce trading frictions in a number of other markets, existing research has failed to detect such an effect in the labor market. In this paper, we replicate Kuhn and Skuterud's (2004) study – which found that Internet job search (IJS) was associated with...
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The Determinants of Poverty Transitions in Europe and the Role of Duration Dependence
Andriopoulou, Eirini - 2011
conditional, to the duration of spell, exit probabilities and re-entry rates to poverty. In the second part observed … out of poverty, taking into account unobserved heterogeneity across individuals and duration dependence. Multivariate … discrete hazard analysis is used and the duration dependence is captured with time dummies. In almost all the 14 EU Member …
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