In this article we study the market duration of new housing built by developers in Mexico between 2013 and 2015. In particular, this document discusses whether the physical characteristics of housing, state of location, date put on sale, time of construction, the initial price and the size of...

In this article we study the market duration of new housing built by developers in Mexico between 2013 and 2015. In particular, this document discusses whether the physical characteristics of housing, state of location, date put on sale, time of construction, the initial price and the size of...

The paper shows that a more flexible labor market is unequivocally necessary for a lasting and substantial reduction of unemployment. It furthermore points out that a more flexible labor market is even beneficial from a long-run distributional point of view. Hence, the key to liberalizing the...

This article introduces the German job vacancy survey (EGS). Its data are valuable because employers' recruitment processes and decisions are little-noticed through the empirical literature on matching processes on the labour market. This is due to the fact that administrative data on job...

El estado del ciclo económico ha tenido incidencia sobre la duración del desempleo en la Argentina. En este trabajo se ofrecen distintas alternativas para cuantificar este efecto. Se estima un modelo para la probabilidad de experimentar un tránsito de la desocupación al empleo, a partir de...

En el presente trabajo se estudia conjuntamente la estabilidad ocupacional y salarial en Argentina durante los años 1998-2002. Usando paneles construidos a partir de la EPH, se analiza la forma en la cual las características del trabajador impactan en la volatilidad salarial y en las...

Dieser Beitrag begibt sich mittels multinomialer logistischer Regressionen auf die Suche nach Bestimmungsfaktoren für den Suchverlauf bei erfolgreichen Stellenbesetzungen. Hierzu werden drei Verlaufstypen unterschieden und auf Zusammenhänge insbesondere mit Merkmalen der Stelle und des...

In this paper we document and analyse gross job flows in five transition countries, Poland, Estonia, Slovenia, Bulgaria and Romania. Using comparable firm level data over the years 1993- 1997, we find that in early transition job destruction dominates job creation, while the latter is picking up...

This paper shows that the German labor market is more volatile than the US labor market. Specifically, the volatility of the cyclical component of several labor market variables (e.g., the job-finding rate, labor market tightness, and job vacancies) divided by the volatility of labor...

El presente documento analiza las encuestas de hogares y las metodologías de las estimaciones oficiales de pobreza de la región; en particular, en primer lugar busca analizar la forma en que se miden los ingresos de las personas y los hogares en las encuestas de hogares de América Latina y el...