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Should I stay or should I go? : austerity, unemployment and migration

Bandeira, Guilherme; Caballé Vilella, Jordi; Vella, Eugenia - 2018

La elevada tasa de paro y la austeridad fiscal durante la Gran Recesión han provocado importantes movimientos migratorios procedentes de los países europeos que sufrieron un profundo deterioro de su economía, siendo Grecia el caso más obvio. En este trabajo se introduce una decisión...

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Why poor people do not move: job search behaviour and disequilibrium amongst local labor markets

Clark, Gordon L.; Whiteman, J. - 1983

A model of why people do not move between local labor markets is developed by means of a set of concepts derived from the job search and contracts literature. Emphasis is placed on how the environment, in which individuals behave, determines outcomes. It is argued that individuals act...

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Labor Market Skill, Firms and Workers

Nestoriak, Nicole - 2004

The role of skilled labor in the modern economy and its importance in explaining trends in wage inequality and productivity has been a focus of a broad strand of research in economics. Labor is an input into production that is very different from capital or materials. One key difference is that...

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Deregulation and relative wages: Stability and change in Australia

Preston, Alison - 2000

In Australia the pace of labour market deregulation has rapidly accelerated over

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Intelligent agents in electronic markets for information goods:customization, preference revelation and pricing

Aron, Ravi; Sundararajan, Arun; Viswanathan, Siva - 2005

Electronic commerce has enabled the use of intelligent agenttechnologies that can evaluate buyers, customize products, and price inreal-time. Our model of an electronic market with customizable productsanalyzes the pricing, profitability and welfare implications ofagent-based technologies that...

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A proactive response to the mobbing problem : a guide for HR managers

Shallcross, Linda; Ramsay, Sheryl; Barker, Michelle - 2010

This paper introduces the concept of workplace mobbing as a destructive organizational behaviour of psychological assaults perpetrated against the target causing them harm and loss of employment. The discussion is drawn from a three year Australian study of 212 self identified targets of...

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Estimating a Dynamic Adverse-Selection Model: Labor-Force Experience and the Changing Gender Earnings Gap 1968-97.

Gayle, George-Levi; Golan, Limor - 2010

and discrimination to explain the narrowing gender earnings gap from 1968 to 1993. The paper proves the model is …: statistical discrimination accounts for 36 percent of the observed gender earnings gap in the mid-to-late 1970s, declining to 22 …

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Evolution of gender wage gap in Peru, 1997-2000

Longnecker, Michael (contributor); … - 2007

gender. The wage differential due to gender, and not to differences in labor characteristics, is called discrimination. The … goal of this project is to estimate the evolution of the wages differentials and wage discrimination between males and … education and more experience will be rewarded at the same rate at any combination. The wage discrimination estimation shows …

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Labor market issues for administrators: evidence from public schools in Texas

Deere, Donald (contributor); Ureta, Manuelita (contributor) - 2007

This dissertation examines three labor market issues regarding public schooladministrators in Texas using personnel records from the 1994-95 school year untilthe 2003-04 school year. The first essay explores promotion rates of men and womento school principal, a position that requires...

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Developing reproducible and comprehensible computational models

Lane, P C R; Gobet, F - 2003

Quantitative predictions for complex scientific theories are often obtained by running simulations on computational models. In order for a theory to meet with wide-spread acceptance, it is important that the model be reproducible and comprehensible by independent researchers. However, the...

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