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Real Estate Agent Earnings and Local Housing Prices

Hirsch, Barry T.; Macpherson, David A.; Qu, Zichong - 2022

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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Unawareness and Selective Disclosure : The Effect of School Quality Information on Property Prices

Haisken-DeNew, John P. - 2017

The Australian Government launched the My School website in 2010 to provide standardised information about the quality of schools to the Australian public. This paper combines data from this website with home sales data for the state of Victoria to estimate the effect of the publication of...

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Valuing School Quality Via a School Choice Reform

Machin, Stephen - 2010

Among policymakers, educators and economists there remains a strong, sometimes heated, debate on the extent to which good schools matter. This is seen, for instance, in the strong trend towards establishing accountability systems in education in many countries across the world. In this paper, in...

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Are Nurses More Altruistic than Real Estate Brokers?

Jacobsen, Karin - 2011

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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Wage Flexibility and Employment Fluctuations : Evidence from the Housing Sector

Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2016

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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Losing Prospective Entitlement to Unemployment Benefits. Impact on Educational Attainment

Cockx, Bart; Declercq, Koen; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2022

Providing income support to unemployed education-leavers reduces the returns to investments in education because it makes the consequences of unemployment less severe. We evaluate a two-part policy reform in Belgium to study whether conditioning the prospective entitlement to unemployment...

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Regime and Treatment Effects in Duration Models : Decomposing Expectation and Transplant Effects on the Kidney Waitlist

Kastoryano, Stephen - 2022

the timing of a treatment duration. The initial randomization and treatment affect in turn a duration outcome of interest …

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Employer-to-Employer Transitions and Time Aggregation Bias

Bertheau, Antoine; Vejlin, Rune Majlund - 2022

The rate at which workers switch employers without experiencing a spell of unemployment is one of the most important labor market indicators. However, Employer-to-Employer (EE) transitions are hard to measure in widely used matched employer-employee datasets such as those available in the US. We...

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The Duration of the School-to-Work Transition in Italy and in Other European Countries : A Flexible Baseline Hazard Interpretation

Pastore, Francesco; Quintano, Claudio; Rocca, Antonella - 2022

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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Unemployment Duration and the Take-Up of Unemployment Insurance

Blasco, Sylvie; Fontaine, François - 2021

little effect on aggregate unemployment duration. Additionally we show that the link between claiming and job search efforts … has important implications when measuring how UI parameters impact unemployment duration …

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