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. These studies have typically estimated the return to education in terms of changes in wages rather than employment …, effectively ignoring the fact that trade liberalization affects not only wages but also employment opportunities. In this paper we … use four large-scale representative household surveys from Vietnam for the period 1998-2006 to estimate the impact of …
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. These studies have typically estimated the return to education in terms of changes in wages rather than employment …, effectively ignoring the fact that trade liberalization affects not only wages but also employment opportunities. In this paper we … use four large-scale representative household surveys from Vietnam for the period 1998-2006 to estimate the impact of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256311
In the Netherlands auditors can be trained in a part-time educational track in which students combine working and studying or in a full-time educational track. The former training is relatively firm-specific whereas the latter training is relatively general. Applying human capital theory, we...
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In the Netherlands auditors can be trained in a part-time educational track in which students combine working and studying or in a full-time educational track. The former training is relatively firm-specific whereas the latter training is relatively general. Applying human capital theory, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257420
This paper shows that we can normalize job and worker characteristics so that, without frictions,there exists a linear relationship between wages on the one hand and worker and job type indiceson the other. However, for five European countries and the United States we find strong evidencefor a...
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In this paper we derive a structural measure for labor market density based on the Ellison and Glasear (1997) "Index for industry concentration". This labor market density measure serves as a proxy for the number of workers that can reach a certain work area within a reasonal amount of traveling...
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This paper characterizes the equilibrium for a large class of search models with two-sided heterogeneity and on-the-job search. Besides the well-known congestion externalities, we show that on-the-job search in combination with monopsonistic wage setting without commitment creates a...
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This discussion paper has resulted in an article in 'Economica', 2002, 69(273), 21-40.
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See 'On-The-Job Search, Mismatch and Efficiency', forthcoming in the 'Review of Economic Studies'.
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This paper shows that we can normalize job and worker characteristics so that, without frictions,
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136882