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Monetary commitment and structural reforms: A dynamic panel analysis for transition economies
Belke, Ansgar; Vogel, Lukas - 2012
macroeconomic conditions as facilitating structural reforms outweighs countervailing effects in the sense of lower reform pressure. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287667
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Labor market institutions and informality in transition and Latin American countries
Lehmann, Hartmut; Muravyev, Alexander - 2012
This paper analyzes, using country-level panel data from transition economies and Latin America, the impact of labor market institutions on informal economic activity. The measure of informal economic activity is taken from Schneider et al. (2010), the most comprehensive study to date. The data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291406
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Job Matching and the Returns to Educational Signals
Habermalz, Steffen - 2003
signals that is concave, a feature that earlier studies used to dismiss educational signaling. Using a synthetic panel data … signaling framework theoretically and empirically. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261976
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A Comparison of the Human Capital and Signaling Models: The Case of the Self-Employed and the Increase in the Schooling Premium in the 1980?s
Lofstrom, Magnus - 2000
?s. The paper compares the predictions of the signaling and human capital models in response to an exogenous demand shock … hypotheses are derived. The findings suggest that the signaling model may indeed predict the observed changes in the schooling …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262368
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Job market signaling and employer learning
Alós-Ferrer, Carlos; Prat, Julien - 2008
This paper extends the job market signaling model of Spence (1973) by allowing firms to learn the ability of their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268897
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Using Employer Hiring Behavior to Test the Educational Signaling Hypothesis
Albrecht, James; van Ours, Jan C. - 2001
This paper presents a test of the educational signaling hypothesis. If employers use education as a signal in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270572
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How opportunity costs decrease the probability of war in an incomplete information game
Polachek, Solomon W.; Xiang, Jun - 2008
opportunity costs as the basis for the inverse trade-conflict relationship, thus implying that one need not rely on signaling. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276264
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Signaling in the Labor Market: New Evidence on Layoffs and Plant Closings
Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2004
not have a positive signaling benefit. Analysis of the data from the January 1988-2000 Displaced Workers Supplements to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276359
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Charity as a signal of trustworthhiness
Fehrler, Sebastian - 2010
raises the other players' beliefs about the donors' trustworthiness in a simple trust game. Consequently, donors receive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278669
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Management Incentives, Signaling Effects and the Costs of Vertical Integration
Sliwka, Dirk - 2003
The costs of vertical integration are analyzed within a game-theoretic signaling model. It is shown that a company when …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261581