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The determinants for labour contract length A French micro-econometric study
Halima, Mohamed Ali Ben - Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Économique Lyon … - 2005
Two types of analyses intend to explain the determinants of labour contracts length. A first analysis emphasizes on the contracting costs and the level of uncertainty. The second analysis focuses on the incentive and selection effect of the contract length. This paper test the determinants for...
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Housing wealth accumulation : The role of public housing
Goffette-Nagot, Florence; Sidibé, Modibo - Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Économique Lyon … - 2013
The public housing sector provides housing units at below-market rents, potentially allowing its tenants to save for a downpayment more quickly than they would have otherwise. In this paper, we analyze the e-ffect of a spell in public housing on age at first-time homeownership using the French...
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Are homes hot or cold potatoes? The distribution of marketing time in the housing market
Carrillo, Paul E.; Pope, Jaren C. - In: Regional Science and Urban Economics 42 (2012) 1-2, pp. 189-197
This paper analyzes how the distribution of marketing time of residential real estate evolves across time. Using real estate data from a large suburb in the Washington D.C. area we first show that the whole distribution of marketing time shifts to the right when a “hot” housing market in...
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IAB Employment Subsample 1975-1995 Opportunities for Analysis Provided by the Anonymised Subsample
Bender, Stefan; Haas, Anette; Klose, Christoph - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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...
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Housing Tenure Choice Implications of Social Networks
Jacob, Jeffry; Munasib, Abdul - Spears School of Business, Oklahoma State University - 2009
change of location, researchers have often emphasized the importance of modeling tenure choice and mobility decisions jointly … loans and related credit issues, etc.). We estimate the effect of social networks on the joint tenure-mobility decision … mechanism. We also address the issue of potential endogeneity of social networks in this joint mobility-tenure choice decision …
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Le statut résidentiel affecte-t-il la durée de chômage ?. Une estimation micro-économétrique sur données françaises
Brunet, Carole; Lesueur, Jean-Yves - In: Revue économique 55 (2004) 3, pp. 569-578
Studies based on macroeconomic data have shown that homeownership and unemployment rates are positively correlated in Europe and in United-States. This stylised fact has given rise to several studies based on individual data from United-States, Denmark or Great-Britain, which have produced...
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Rent Control and Tenancy Duration
Munch, Jakob Roland; Svarer, Michael - School of Economics and Management, University of Aarhus
This paper investigates how rent control affects mobility on the Danish private rental housing market. Based on a … by the baseline hazard function. We find that tenancy mobility is severely reduced by the presence of rent control …
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Stepping Stones for the Unemployed: The Effect of Temporary Jobs on the Duration until Regular Work
Zijl, Marloes; den Berg, Gerard J. van; Heyma, Arjan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
Individual labour market transitions from unemployment into temporary work are often succeeded by a transition from temporary into regular work. We investigate whether temporary work increases the transition rate to regular work. In that case, temporary work may enhance labour market efficiency....
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Stepping-stones for the unemployed: The effect of temporary jobs on the duration until regular work
Zijl, Marloes; den Berg, Gerard J van; Heyma, Arjan - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2004
Individual labour market transitions from unemployment into temporary work are often succeeded by a transition from temporary into regular work. We investigate whether temporary work increases the transition rate to regular work. In that case, temporary work may enhance labour market efficiency....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005651830
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Measuring Labor Market Frictions: A Cross-Country Comparison
Ridder, Geert; den Berg, Gerard J. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
In this paper we define and estimate measures of labor market frictions using data on job durations. We compare different estimation methods and different types of data. We propose and apply an unconditional inference method that can be applied to aggregate duration data. It does not require...
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