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Workplace Training Programs: Instruments for Human Capital Improvements or Screening Devices?
Brunetti, Irene; Corsini, Lorenzo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
In this paper we analyse the effect of an Italian training program on the re-employment probability of young unemployed workers. The program consists solely of workplace training and is coordinated by employment centre, but it is fully implemented by firms. We develop a discrete duration...
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Technological Change and Immigration Policy
Gomez-Ruano, Gerardo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
We propose a dynamic general equilibrium model to address the effects of technological progress on immigrant skill composition. Our results from this positive model suggest that neutral and skill-biased technological change imply essentially different immigration policies. On the one hand,...
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Human migration: theoretical and empirical results
Graves, Philip E.; Linneman, Peter D. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1979
I am unable to copy/paste a rather lengthy abstract, but the paper provides a detailed theoretical model of human migration which is then tested using a discrete choice probit model.
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Labor Mobility and Racial Discrimination
Deschamps, Pierre; De Sousa, Jose - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This paper assesses the impact of labor mobility on racial discrimination. We present an equilibrium search model that … reveals an inverted U-shaped relationship between labor mobility and race-based wage differentials. We explore this … relationship empirically with an exogenous mobility shock on the European soccer labor market. The Bosman ruling by the European …
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Migration and job change: a multinomial logit approach
Linneman, Peter D.; Graves, Philip E. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1983
While unable to copy/paste the abstract, the paper examines the relative importance of job search and housing demand along with exploring the extent of equilibrium and disequilibrium in migration and job change.
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Employment Insurance and the Business Cycle
Pollak, Andreas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper quantitatively investigates the scope for improving welfare by making aspects of the unemployment insurance (UI) system depend on the state of the business cycle. A particular focus is the Canadian system of "Employment Insurance" (EI), which is designed in such a way that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109395
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The puzzle of job search and housing tenure. A reconciliation of theory and empirical evidence
Morescalchi, Andrea - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
mobility, but repeatedly the reverse is found. We contribute to shed light on this puzzle in two key ways. First, we show that …
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Some are Punished and Some are Rewarded: A Study of the Impact of Performance Pay on Job Satisfaction
McCausland, David; Pouliakas, Konstantinos; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
Using an econometric procedure that corrects for both self-selection of individuals into their preferred compensation scheme and wage endogeneity, this study investigates whether significant differences exist in the job satisfaction of individuals receiving performance-related pay (PRP) compared...
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The Occupational Mobility of Female Workers: An Empirical Analysis
Grimes, Paul W. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1986
Data from three supplemental mobility surveys conducted jointly with the Current Population Survey (CPS) in 1973, 1978 …
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Does Government Health Insurance Reduce Job Lock and Job Push?
Barkowski, Scott - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
I study job lock and job push, the twin phenomena believed to be caused by employment-contingent health insurance (ECHI). Using variation in Medicaid eligibility among household members of male workers as a proxy for shifts in workers’ dependence on employment for health insurance, I estimate...
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