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Christopher Pissarides
Jackman, Richard - Palgrave Macmillan
Professor Christopher Pissarides was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Economics jointly with Peter Diamond and Dale Mortensen ‘for their analysis of markets with search frictions’. Though Pissarides is best known for his work in this area, it is only part of a very extensive research agenda...
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Does Homeownership Lead to Longer Unemployment Spells? The Role of Mortgage Payments
Baert, Stijn; Heylen, Freddy; Isebaert, Daan - In: De Economist 162 (2014) 3, pp. 263-286
<Para ID="Par1">This paper examines the impact of housing tenure choice on unemployment duration in Belgium using EU …. Accounting for tenure endogeneity and unobserved heterogeneity, we find that homeowners with a mortgage exit unemployment first …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010988356
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Does homeownership lead to longer unemployment spells? The role of mortgage payments
BAERT, S.; HEYLEN, F.; ISEBAERT, D. - Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Gent - 2013
This paper examines the impact of housing tenure choice on unemployment duration in Belgium using EU-SILC micro data … simultaneously estimate unemployment duration by a mixed proportional hazard model, and the probability of being an outright … the causal influence of different types of housing tenure on unemployment duration, we use instrumental variables. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083170
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Does Homeownership Lead to Longer Unemployment Spells? The Role of Mortgage Payments
Baert, Stijn; Heylen, Freddy; Isebaert, Daan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper examines the impact of housing tenure choice on unemployment duration in Belgium using EU‐SILC micro data … simultaneously estimate unemployment duration by a mixed proportional hazard model, and the probability of being an outright … the causal influence of different types of housing tenure on unemployment duration, we use instrumental variables. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011085109
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Wage Determination and Imperfect Competition
Booth, Alison - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2014
A striking feature of the past few decades has been the development of wage determination models that assume that labour markets are imperfectly competitive. This paper discusses two such models (trade unions and oligopsony), although there are many more. It also asks if imperfectly competitive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010904323
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Wage Determination and Imperfect Competition
Booth, Alison L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
A striking feature of the past few decades has been the development of wage-determination models that assume that labour markets are imperfectly competitive. This paper discusses two such models (trade unions and oligopsony), although there are many more. It also asks if imperfectly competitive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959709
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Costs and Benefits of Labour Mobility between the EU and the Eastern Partnership Partner Countries. Country report: Georgia
Labadze, Lasha; Tukhashvili, Mirian - CASE-Center for Social and Economic Research - 2013
This study provides an analysis of the costs and benefits of emigration for Georgia, with an emphasis on emigration to the EU. In the concluding section we dwell on the consequences of a possible liberalization of EU migration policies with regard to Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries, and how...
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Costs and Benefits of Labour Mobility between the EU and the Eastern Partnership Partner Countries. Country report: Ukraine
Coupé, Tom; Vakhitova, Hannah - CASE-Center for Social and Economic Research - 2013
Ukraine is a migration-intensive country, with an estimated 1.5-2 million labour migrants (about 5% of the working-age population). Slightly over a half of these migrants travel for work to the EU. This study discusses the impact of this large pool of migrants on both the sending and receiving...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010901989
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Unequal Gains of Nations from Economic Globalisation
Tisdell, Clement A.; Svizzero, Serge; Laselle, Laurence - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 2002
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008465453
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Costs and Benefits of Labour Mobility between the EU and the Eastern Partnership Partner Countries. Country report: Armenia
Makaryan, Gagik; Galstyan, Mihran - CASE-Center for Social and Economic Research - 2013
The purpose of this study is to explore and assess the costs and benefits of labour migration in Armenia and the potential of migration for contributing to the country’s development. We also examine how policy can be effectively formulated and implemented so that Armenia can get the most...
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