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Age-dependent employment protection
Chéron, Arnaud; Hairault, Jean-Olivier; Langot, François - 2008
matching process, we find that the first best age-dynamic of firing taxes and hiring subsidies is typically hump-shaped. Taking …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269359
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Search frictions on product and labor markets: money in the matching function
Lehmann, Etienne; van der Linden, Bruno - 2007
This paper builds a macroeconomic model of equilibrium unemployment in which firms persistently face difficulties in selling their production and this affects their decisions to create jobs. Due to search-frictions on the product market, equilibrium unemployment is a U-shaped function of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277003
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Multiple Equilibria and Minimum Wages in Labor Markets with Informational Frictions and Heterogeneous Production Technologies
van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2003
It is often argued that a mandatory minimum wage is binding only if the wage density displays a spike at it. In this paper we analyze a model with search frictions and heterogeneous production technologies, in which imposition of a minimum wage affects wages even though, after imposition, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261543
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Splitting Tournaments
Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel; van der Klaauw, Bas - 2010
In this paper we investigate how heterogeneous agents choose among tournaments with different prizes. We show that if the number of agents is sufficiently small, multiple equilibria can arise. Depending on how the prize money is split over the tournaments, these may include, for example, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274585
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Telling the truth may not pay off: an empirical study of centralised university admissions in Germany
Braun, Sebastian; Dwenger, Nadja; Kübler, Dorothea - 2007
We investigate the matching algorithm used by the German central clearinghouse for university admissions (ZVS) in … criteria applied for admission they all make use of priority matching. In priority matching schemes, it is not a dominant … applicants, we are able to detect some amount of strategic behaviour which can lead to inefficient matching. Alternative ways to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268885
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Social networks
de Martí, Joan; Zenou, Yves - 2009
does a poor job in matching real-world networks. We also analyze behaviors on networks, which take networks as given and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275834
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Rejecting Capital-Skill Complementarity at all Costs
Frondel, Manuel; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2001
Any serious empirical study of factor substitutability has to allow the data to display complementarity as well as … substitutability. The standard approach reflecting this idea is a translog specification – this is also the approach used by numerous … hypothesis, the degree of substitutability between skilled labor and capital is lower than that for unskilled labor and capital …
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The substitutability of labor of selected ethnic groups in the US labor market
Kahanec, Martin - 2006
This paper investigates the substitutability of labor of selected ethnic groups in the US labor market. In the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267338
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The catalysing role of in-house R&D in fostering the complementarity of innovative inputs
Catozzella, Alessandra; Vivarelli, Marco - 2007
complementarity and substitutability relationships, depending both on the typology of the targeted innovation output and on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268495
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Do Migrants Displace Native-Born Workers on the Labour Market? The Impact of Workers' Origin
Fays, Valentine; Mahy, Benoît; Rycx, François - 2024
This article is the first to examine how 1st-generation migrants affect the employment of workers born in the host country according to their origin, distinguishing between natives and 2nd-generation migrants. To do so, we take advantage of access to a unique linked employer-employee dataset for...
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