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Economic mobility, family background, and the well-being of children in the United States and Canada
Corak, Miles; Curtis, Lori; Phipps, Shelley - 2010
and Canada addresses three questions. First, is there something to explain? We suggest that the existing literature finds …
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The distribution of top incomes in five Anglo-Saxon countries over the twentieth century
Atkinson, Anthony B.; Leigh, Andrew - 2010
that have relatively similar backgrounds and tax systems: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the US. The first …
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Job Search with Nonparticipation
Frijters, Paul; van der Klaauw, Bas - 2004
these transitions allows the identification of duration dependence in the job offer arrival rate and the wage offer … likelihood. The results show that the presence of significant negative duration dependence in the wage offer distribution causes … reservation wages to decrease. The rate at which job offers arrive is constant over the unemployment duration. These findings …
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Internet Job Search and Unemployment Durations
Kuhn, Peter; Skuterud, Mikal - 2002
negatively selected on unobservables. A beneficial (unemployment-duration reducing) causal effect of internet job search is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262563
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A good time to stay out? Strikes and the business cycle
Devereux, Paul J.; Hart, Robert A. - 2008
In this paper, we compile a unique historical dataset that records strike activity in the British engineering industry from 1920 to 1970. These data have the advantage of containing a fairly homogenous set of companies and workers, covering a long period with varying labour market conditions,...
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Signaling in the Labor Market: New Evidence on Layoffs and Plant Closings
Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2004
signal of productivity, and duration of unemployment may be positively related to post-laid-off wages even among workers who … the Current Population Survey reveals that the wage/unemployment duration relation differs between laid-off workers and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276359
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Reducing Start-Up Costs for New Firms: The Double Dividend on the Labour Market
Dulleck, Uwe; Frijters, Paul; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2003
Starting a firm with expansive potential is an option for educated and high-skilled workers. This option serves as an insurance against unemployment caused by labor market frictions and hence increases the incentives for education. We show within a matching model that reducing the start-up costs...
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Venture Capital Investment and Labor Market Performance : New Empirical Evidence for OECD Countries
Belke, Ansgar; Schaal, Andreas - 2004
Anglo-Saxon countries have been successful in the 1990s concerning labor market performance compared to the former role models Germany and Japan. This reversal in relative economic performance might be related to idiosyncracies in financial markets with bank-based financial markets as in Germany...
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Unemployment Insurance and Subsequent Job Duration: Job Matching vs Unobserved Heterogeneity
Belzil, Christian - 2000
The relationship between unemployment benefit duration, unemployment duration and subsequent job duration is … investigated using a multi-state duration model with state specific unobserved heterogeneity. I allow maximum benefit duration to … be correlated with unemployment duration as well as accepted job duration. I examine two potential explanations for the …
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Black Sheep and Walls of Silence
Roider, Andreas; Muehlheusser, Gerd - 2004
In this paper we analyze the frequently observed phenomenon that (i) some members of a team ("black sheep") exhibit behavior disliked by other (honest) team members, who (ii) nevertheless refrain from reporting such misbehavior to the authorities (they set up a "wall of silence"). Much cited...
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