The following dissertation is a collection of four stand-alone research papers. The focus of my research is on the interplay of immigration, native human-capital investment and the resulting consequences for the labour market outcome of natives and necessary implications for the immigration...

By using a broker, the owner of a house can speed up his search for buyers but must pay a percentage of the sale price as a commission. Nonstationarities inherent in the housing market may make it optimal to market a house “by-owner” at the outset and to retain a broker only if the house...

Based on the assumption that the interest rate is constant, the unemployment insurance risk model for migrant workers is established. The premium income and the expense of this risk model are compound Poisson process. Among them, the premium of an insurance policy and the claim amount of...

This paper examines the effect of the Worker Profiling and Reemployment Services (WPRS) system. This program "profiles" UI claimants to determine their probability of benefit exhaustion (or expected spell duration) and then provides mandatory employment and training services to claimants with...

This paper considers the use of statistical profiling to allocate persons to alternative options within government programs, or to participation or non-participation in programs. Profiling has been used in the United States to allocate unemployment insurance (UI) claimants to reemployment...

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Rochester. Dept. of Economics, 2008.

Este trabajo estudia el papel que desempeñan las condiciones de acceso a la prestación por desempleo sobre la tasa de despidos. Para ello, se explota la variación cuasi experimental en los criterios de elegibilidad para el subsidio de desempleo en Italia, a través de una estimación de...

Para moderar las caídas en la producción y en los ingresos que afectan a determinados Estados o regiones, los países y las uniones monetarias disponen de mecanismos de reparto de riesgos. Estos mecanismos funcionan estabilizando las rentas de los hogares de forma que las fluctuaciones de la...