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Jumping the Queue: Nepotism and Public-Sector Pay
Chassamboulli, Andri; Gomes, Pedro Maia - 2020
We set up a model with search and matching frictions to understand the effects of employment and wage policies, as well as nepotism in hiring in the public sector, on unemployment and rent seeking. Conditional on inefficiently high public-sector wages, more nepotism in public-sector hiring...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012207767
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Empirical Modeling of Deprivation Contagion among Social Exclusion Dimensions (Using MCMC Methods)
Poggi, Ambra; Ramos, Xavier - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Economic theory and empirical evidence clearly show that social exclusion dimensions are inter-related. Notwithstanding that, dimensions are usually assumed independent from one another in the economics literature. In this paper we explore the inter-dependency of social exclusion dimensions and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822888
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Cyclicality and the Labor Market for Economists
Gallet, Craig Arthur; List, John A.; Orazem, Peter F. - 2004
intensive margin (how many applications to submit per market). Meanwhile, employers respond to the weakening market by raising … shifted their applications away from academia and toward the business sector. In bust conditions, academic institutions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274021
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Cyclicality and the Labor Market for Economists
Gallet, Craig A.; List, John A.; Orazem, Peter F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
intensive margin (how many applications to submit per market). Meanwhile, employers respond to the weakening market by raising … shifted their applications away from academia and toward the business sector. In bust conditions, academic institutions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763669
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Offshoring, Endogenous Skill Decision, and Labor Market Outcomes
Agnese, Pablo; Hromcová, Jana - 2016
addition to this, we also consider labor flexibility as an effective policy to deal with the adverse welfare effects of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584614
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Why Are European Countries Diverging in Their Unemployment Experience?
2004
During the nineties, unemployment has fallen in a number of European countries while it has remained high in others. The paper discusses potential causes for that evolution in light of recent economic research, emphasizing obstacles to reform due to political constraints, the prevalence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261829
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IAB Employment Subsample 1975-1995 Opportunities for Analysis Provided by the Anonymised Subsample
Klose, Christoph; Haas, Anette; Bender, Stefan - 2000
The IAB employment subsample is now available for researchers in a third, anonymised version. Following the so-called basic file and the regional file from the IAB employment subsample, which encompassed the years 1975 to 1990, the actualized version of the basic file covers now the years 1975...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262342
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Flexibility vs. Rigidity: Does Spain have the worst of both Worlds?
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2000
In this paper we study the structure of labor market flows in Spain and compare them with France and the US. We characterize a number of empirical regularities and stylized facts. One striking result is that the job finding rate is slightly higher than in France, while the job loss rate is much...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262363
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Institutional arrangements, employment performance and the quality of work
Eichhorst, Werner; Marx, Paul; Tobsch, Verena - 2009
of labor market adaptability. The paper presents a quantitative indicator that tries to avoid a simplified flexibility …-rigidity dichotomy and provides a detailed picture of the varying institutional configurations by which flexibility is achieved. In order … to capture different patterns of flexibility, we differentiate between five types of flexibility which can be combined …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269531
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Enforcement of regulation, informal labor and firm performance
Almeida, Rita K.; Carneiro, Pedro - 2005
This paper investigates how enforcement of labor regulation affects the firm's use of informal employment and its impact on firm performance. Using firm level data on informal employment and firm performance, and administrative data on enforcement of regulation at the city level, we show that in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270612