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Are Women More Credit Constrained? Experimental Evidence on Gender and Microenterprise Returns

de Mel, Suresh; McKenzie, David; Woodruff, Christopher - 2007

This paper analyzes data from a randomized experiment on mean returns to capital in SriLankan micro-enterprises. The findings show greater returns among men than among women; indeed, returns were not different from zero for women. The authors explore different explanations for the lower returns...

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Employment fluctuations with downward wage rigidity : the role of moral hazard

Costain, James S.; Jansen, Marcel - 2006

This paper considers a dynamic matching model with imperfectly observable worker effort. In equilibrium, the wage distribution is truncated from below by a no-shirking condition. This downward wage rigidity induces the same type of inefficient churning and "contractual fragility" as in Ramey and...

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Labour market inefficiency and frictional unemployment in Australia and its States: A stochastic frontier approach

Bodman, PM - 1999

This paper provides estimates of labour market inefficiency and the frictional unemployment rate for Australia and its States over the period January 1978 to December 1997. These estimates are derived from parametric statistical models of employment growth in which technical inefficiencies are...

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Essays in Labor Markets, Education and Migration in Developing Countries.

Pugatch, Todd M. - 2011

This dissertation consists of three essays in labor and development economics. The first essay, “Bumpy Rides: School to Work Transitions in South Africa,” quantifies the importance of the option to re-enroll in the school to work transition of South African youth. I estimate a structural...

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Re-employment Probabilities and Wage Offer Function for Russian Labor Market

Smirnova, Natalia V. - 2003

This research addresses labor market transformation in Russia. It elaborates on the theory of job search and focuses on the following issues: (1) evaluation of the re-employment probabilities (hazard rates) for different socio-economic groups; and (2) estimation of wage offer distribution for...

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JOB SEARCH EXPERIENCES: A WITHIN-PERSON EXAMINATION OF JOB SEARCH SELF-EFFICACY, BEHAVIORS, AND OUTCOME

Liu, Songqi - 2011

A dynamic self-regulatory perspective is useful to explain within- and between-person variations in job search behaviors (e.g., Barber, Daly, Giannantonio, & Phillips, 1994; Kanfer, Wanberg, Kantrowitz, 2001). However, few studies have incorporated models and designs appropriate for addressing when...

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Job Competition over the Business Cycle

Chasamboulli, Andri N. - 2005

test the empirical relevance of over-qualification. I ask whether the risk of unemployment induces high-skilled workers to …

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Can subsidized employment tackle long-term unemployment? Experimental evidence from North Macedonia

Armand, Alex; Carneiro, Pedro; Tagliati, Federico; Xia, … - 2020

Este documento estudia el impacto de un experimento en Macedonia del Norte en el cual individuos en paro de larga duración que participan en un programa de empleo subvencionado son seleccionados de manera aleatoria para participar en una entrevista de trabajo. Los empleadores que contratan a un...

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A dynamic approach to Germany's unemployment problem

Bachmann, Ronald - 2007

Modell mit skill mismatch und endogener Jobzerstörung zu einer längeren erwarteten Dauer des der Arbeitslosigkeit folgenden … Arbeiterflüsse in die Arbeitslosigkeit während einer Rezession der Rückgang der Einstellungsneigung von Firmen ist, was auch aus dem …

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Arbeitsmarktpolitik in Deutschland : seit Jahrzehnten in der Sackgasse

Berthold, Norbert; Berchem, Sascha von - 2005

der deutschen Arbeitsmarktpolitik hin zu mehr Effizienz und weniger Arbeitslosigkeit zu vermitteln.Doch hat eine … keinen echten Beitrag zum Abbau der Arbeitslosigkeit leisten. In vielen Bereichen blieben die Reformschritte ein bloßes … konsequent versucht, Marktkräfte und Wettbewerb zum Abbau der Arbeitslosigkeit zu nutzen. Kernpunkt ist ein dezentraler Ansatz …

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