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Price setting practices in Greece: evidence from a small-scale firm-level survey
Nicolitsas, Daphne - Bank of Greece - 2013
The paper documents the price setting practices followed by some 400 or so firms operating in Greece. Survey replies reveal: a low percentage of firms changing prices with frequency higher than annual; staggering of price changes during the year; sluggish adjustment of prices to cost shocks;...
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Does Apprenticeship Improve Job Opportunities? A Regression Discontinuity Approach
PICCHIO, Matteo; STAFFOLANI, Stefano - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali, Facoltà … - 2013
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How Binding are Legal Limits? Transitions from Termporary to Permanent Work in Spain
Güell, Maia; Petrongolo, Barbara - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2003
-term contracts. This paper studies the duration pattern of fixed-term contracts and the determinants of their conversion into … permanent ones in Spain, where the share of fixed-term employment is the highest in Europe. We estimate a duration model for … duration dependence. Our estimated conversion rate has a clear, pronounced spike at 3 years of duration, coinciding with the …
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How Binding Are Legal Limits? Transitions from Temporary to Permanent Work in Spain
Güell, Maia; Petrongolo, Barbara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
-term contracts. Since then most accessions to employment have been through fixed-term contracts. This paper studies the duration … share of fixed-term employment is the highest in Europe. We estimate a duration model for temporary employment, with … competing risks of terminating into permanent employment versus alternative states, and flexible duration dependence. We find …
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Unemployment durations after temporary work: Evidence for Great Britain and Germany
Dekker, Ronald - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Unemployment durations are determined by a number of factors. According to mainstream economics theory, unemployment …
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Does Temporary Agency Work Provide a Stepping Stone to Regular Employment?
Kvasnicka, Michael - EconWPA - 2005
Based on administrative data from the federal employment office in Germany, we apply matching techniques to estimate the stepping-stone function of temporary agency work for the unemployed, i.e. its short-run and long-run effects on their future employment prospects. Our results show that...
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Wage Dispersion and Equilibrium Search. Models: Some Evidence from Italy
Sulis, G. - Centro Ricerche Nord Sud (CRENoS) - 2004
This paper provides a structural estimation of an equilibrium search model with on-thejob search and heterogeneity in firms productivities using a sample of Italian workers. Allowing for productivity differentials among firms, the model is able to fit the wage distribution satisfactorily....
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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
length. This paper test the determinants for contract duration by means of econometric duration models. The estimates are … that wages positively affect employment duration. This confirms the positive effect of contracting costs reported. Moreover …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005056872
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Specification and Estimation of Equilibrium Search Models
Bunzel, H.; Christensen, B. J.; Jensen, P.; Kiefer, N. M.; … - In: Review of Economic Dynamics 4 (2001) 1, pp. 90-126
This paper considers estimation of a pure equilibrium search model in which all heterogeneity is endogenous and due to information asymmetries, and of variations that allow better fits to the data. Measurement error and heterogeneity in the productivity levels of firms. The model is fit to a...
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Equilibrium Search with Human Capital Accumulation.
Bunzel, H.; Christensen, B.J.; Kiefer, N.M.; Korsholm, L. - School of Economics and Management, Institut for Økonomi - 1999
The homogeneous search equilibrium model of Mortensen (1990) and Burdett and Mortensen (1998) is extended to allow on-the-job wage growth. The extension allows an improved empirical fit to the cross-section wage distribution. The estimation problem is nonregular but tractable. Estimated...
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