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The ins and outs of European unemployment

Petrongolo, Barbara; Pissarides, Christopher - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

In this paper we study the contribution of inflows and outflows to the dynamics of unemployment in three European countries, the United Kingdom, France and Spain. We compare performance in these three countries making use of both administrative and labor force survey data. We find that the...

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What are the long-term effects of UI? Evidence from the UK JSA reform

Petrongolo, Barbara - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

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The Ins and Outs of European Unemployment

Petrongolo, Barbara; Pissarides, Christopher - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

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A test between matching theories

Coles, Melvyn; Petrongolo, Barbara - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2005

This paper tests whether aggregate matching is consistent with random matching or stock-flow matching. Using U ….K. matching data and correcting for temporal aggregation bias, estimates of the random matching function are consistent with … previous work in this field. The data however support the "stock-flow" matching hypothesis. Estimates find that around 50% of …

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The part-time pay penalty

Manning, Alan; Petrongolo, Barbara - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

Women working part-time in the UK have hourly earnings that are on average 26 percent less than women working fulltime. Alan Manning and Barbara Petrongolo investigate what's behind this part-time pay penalty.

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The part-time pay penalty

Manning, Alan; Petrongolo, Barbara - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

In 2003, women working part-time in the UK earned, on average, 22% less than women working full-time. Compared to women who work FT, PT women are more likely to have low levels of education, to be in a couple, to have young and numerous children, to work in small establishments in distribution,...

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The Part-Time Pay Penalty

Manning, Alan; Petrongolo, Barbara - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2005

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On the Trend Recognition and Forecasting Ability of Professional Traders

Glaser, Markus - 2008

Empirical research documents that temporary trends in stock price movements exist, so that riding a trend can be a profitable investment strategy. In this paper, we provide a thorough test of the trend recognition and forecasting ability of financial professionals who work in the trading room of...

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Why Inexperienced Investors Do Not Learn : They Do Not Know Their Past Portfolio Performance

Glaser, Markus - 2008

Recently, researchers have gone a step further from just documenting biases of individual investors. More and more studies analyze how experience affects decisions and whether biases are eliminated by trading experience and learning. A necessary condition to learn is that investors actually know...

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Individual Investor Sentiment and Stock Returns - What Do We Learn from Warrant Traders?

Glaser, Markus - 2009

In this paper, we propose a measure of individual investor sentiment that is derived from the market for bank-issued warrants. Due to a unique warrant transaction data set from a large discount broker we are able to calculate a daily sentiment measure and test whether individual investor...

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