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Health and Wealth of Elderly Couples : Causality Tests Using Dynamic Panel Data Models
Michaud, Pierre-Carl; van Soest, Arthur - 2004
A positive relationship between socio-economic status (SES) and health, the so-called "health-wealth gradient", is repeatedly found in most industrialized countries with similar levels of health care technology and economic welfare. This study analyzes causality from health to wealth (health...
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Who Among White Collar Workers Has an Opportunity for Phased Retirement? : Establishment Characteristics
Grace-Martin, Karen; Hutchens, Robert M. - 2004
Utilizing a new survey of employers, this paper examines how and why establishments differ in their willingness to permit an older full-time white-collar worker to take phased retirement. Phased retirement means that an older worker remains with his or her employer while gradually reducing work...
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Job Matching and the Returns to Educational Signals
Habermalz, Steffen - 2003
This paper develops a multi-period model, in which workers are matched with jobs according to imperfect educational signals and in which their subsequent productivities depend on both their inherent ability and on the quality of the job match. It outlines a sequential process, in which underpaid...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261976
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Identifying sorting: in theory
Eeckhout, Jan; Kircher, Philipp - 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/10010269035
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Minimum wage effects on labor market outcomes under search with bargaining
Flinn, Christopher J. - 2003
Building upon a continuous-time model of search with Nash bargaining in a stationary environment, we analyze the effect of changes in minimum wages on labor market outcomes and welfare. While minimum wage increases invariably lead to employment losses in our model, they may be welfare-improving...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261648
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Strategic Hiring Behavior in Empirical Matching Functions
Fahr, René; Sunde, Uwe - 2001
This paper makes two contributions to the empirical matching literature. First, a recent study by Anderson and Burgess … (2000) testing for endogenous competition among job seekers in a matching frame-work, is replicated with a richer and more … accurate data set for Germany. Their results are confirmed and found to be surprisingly robust. Second, the matching framework …
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Matching bias in labor demand estimation
Aguilar, Giovanna; Rendón, Sílvio - 2007
Using a matched firm-worker dataset, we show both theoretically and empirically that positive assortative matching …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276390
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Classic Monopsony or New Monopsony? : Searching for Evidence in Nursing Labor Markets
Schumacher, Edward J.; Hirsch, Barry T. - 2004
The market for hospital registered nurses (RNs) is often offered as an example of ?classic? monopsony, while a ?new? monopsony literature emphasizes firm labor supply being upwardsloping for reasons other than market structure. Using data from several sources, we explore the relationship between...
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Cyclicality and the Labor Market for Economists
Gallet, Craig Arthur; List, John A.; Orazem, Peter F. - 2004
Using a unique sample of new Ph.D. economists in 1987 and 1997, we examine how job seekers and their employers alter their search strategies in strong versus weak markets. The 1987 academic market was strong while the 1997 market was much weaker. A multimarket theory of optimal search suggests...
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Unemployment Compensation Finance and Labor Market Rigidity
Cahuc, Pierre; Malherbet, Franck - 2002
matching model of a rigid labor market including firing costs, temporary jobs and a minimum wage in order to analyze the issue …
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