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Job Competition over the Business Cycle
Chasamboulli, Andri N. - 2005
My thesis explores the following question: how workers of different skill are allocated across jobs and unemployment … high unemployment, as increased congestion in the labor market hinders workers from finding a suitable match. I focus on …-skill unemployment dynamics. I capture the across-skill search externalities and spillover effects that arise when low- and high …
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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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Microeconomic Flexibility in Latin America
Caballero, Ricardo J.; Engel, Eduardo M.R.A.; Micco, … - 2004
We characterize the degree of microeconomic inflexibility in several Latin American economies and find that Brazil, Chile and Colombia are more flexible than Mexico and Venezuela. The difference in flexibility among these economies is mainly explained by the behavior of large establishments,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444155
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Worker Flows, Job Flows and Firm Wage Policies: An Analysis of Slovenia
Haltiwanger, John; Vodopivec, Milan - 2002
Like many transition economies, Slovenia is undergoing profound changes in the workings of the labor market with potentially greater flexibility in terms of both wage and employment adjustment. We investigate the impact of the changing labor market for Slovenia using unique longitudinal matched...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477057
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The Impact on Structural Reforms on Employment Growth and Labour Productivity: Evidence from Bulgaria and Romania
Dimova, Ralitza - 2003
Using firm-level data from Bulgaria and Romania, this paper addresses a lacuna in the transition literature, namely, the link of firm-level employment turnover with firm-level growth in labour productivity. The results suggest that while net job creation at the firm level was affected by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477145
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Heterogeneity and Input Reallocation
Pinto, Eugenio - 2006
In this dissertation, we analyze some patterns of aggregate job reallocation that are significantly determined by the coexistence of heterogeneous businesses in any industry. First, we argue that the interaction of non-strictly convex adjustment costs and learning about true efficiency can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009450724
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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 …) frictional unemployment, ate for Australia over the sample period is 5.3 per cent of the labour force. Technical inefficiency in …') unemployment rate. Investigation of the factors explaining the levels of inefficiency suggests that inefficiencies vary …
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Essays in Labor Markets, Education and Migration in Developing Countries.
Pugatch, Todd M. - 2011
-term consequences of doing so. The second essay, “The Role of Reservation Wages in Youth Unemployment in South Africa: A Structural … and higher unemployment for non-Mexicans. …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477075
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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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