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Pfann, Gerard A. - 2000

This paper develops a theoretical model of a worker?s decision problem under uncertainty about the optimal separation time, when holding a representative outside offer but facing fixed costs of quitting. Implications of the model?s closed form solution are consistent with the quit behavior of...

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Looking inside the perpetual-motion machine: job and worker flows in OECD countries

Bassanini, Andrea; Marianna, Pascal - 2009

There is an increasing interest in the process of job creation and destruction as well of hirings and separations. Many studies suggest that idiosyncratic firm-level characteristics shape both job and worker flows in a similar way in all countries. Others argue that cross-country differences in...

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Temporary contracts and monopsony power in the UK labour market

Tabasso, Domenico - 2011

This paper addresses the applicability of the theory of equalizing differences (Rosen, 1987) in a market in which temporary and permanent workers co-exist. The assumption of perfect competition in the labour market is directly questioned and a model is developed in which the labour market is...

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High wage workers match with high wage firms: Clear evidence of the effects of limited mobility bias

Andrews, Martyn J.; Gill, Leonard; Schank, Thorsten; … - 2012

Positive assortative matching implies that high productivity workers and firms match together. However, there is almost no evidence of a positive correlation between the worker and firm contributions in two-way fixed-effects wage equations. This could be the result of a bias caused by standard...

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Unemployment and endogenous reallocation over the business cycle

Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos; Visschers, Ludo - 2013

We build an analytically and computationally tractable stochastic equilibrium model of unemployment in heterogeneous labor markets. Facing search frictions within markets and reallocation frictions between markets, workers endogenously separate from employment and endogenously reallocate between...

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Are Home Owners Really More Unemployed?

Munch, Jakob Roland; Rosholm, Michael; Svarer, Michael - 2003

This paper investigates the effects of home-ownership on labour mobility and unemployment duration. We distinguish between finding employment locally or by being geographically mobile. We find that home ownership hampers the propensity to move for job reasons but improves the chances of finding...

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Labour Mobility - An Adjustment Mechanism in Euroland?

Puhani, Patrick A. - 1999

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate whether labour mobility is likely to act as a sufficient adjustment mechanism in the face of asymmetric shocks in Euroland. To this end, we estimate the elasticity of migration with respect to changes in unemployment and income on the basis of regional...

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Villages where China's ethnic minorities live

Gustafsson, Björn; Sai, Ding - 2006

This paper investigates how ethnic minorities in rural China are faring compared with the ethnic majority. The village … is the unit of analysis and large surveys for 2002 are used. Minority villages in northeast China are found to have a …

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Health outcomes and socio-economic status among the elderly in China: Evidence from the CHARLS pilot

Srauss, John; Lei, Xiaoyan; Park, Albert; Shen, Yan; … - 2010

We are concerned in this paper with measuring health outcomes among the elderly in Zhejiang and Gansu provinces, China …). We use the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) pilot data to document health conditions among the … China, particularly so for the aged. In general education tends to be positively correlated with better health outcomes, as …

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Class origin, family culture, and intergenerational correlation of education in rural China

Sato, Hiroshi; Li, Shi - 2007

This paper examines the determinants of intergenerational correlation of education in rural China by using a data from …

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