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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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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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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

over the business cycle. I am interestedin understanding the "over-qualification" of workers that occurs during periods of … heterogeneous workers and jobs, which helps understand the role of over-qualification on labor productivity and across … 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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The role of financial information, social capital and reputation in lender decisions

Maier, Michael Shane - 2009

This Thesis contains three essays on the economic behavior of individuals. The first essay, co-authored with Andreas Blume and Douglas DeJong is an experimental investigation into the contribution of cognition in a strategic setting where the goal is to coordinate by choosing different courses...

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Network, Network Position and the Deal Flow of Venture Capital Firms

Böhner, Ingo - 2007

Basierend auf den Perspektiven, wie Netzwerke Sozialkapital schaffen, analysiert diese Arbeit die Positionen, die Venture Capital Gesellschaften (VCG) in ihrem Syndizierungsnetzwerk innehaben und bestimmt die Auswirkung von Netzwerkpositionen auf die Deal Flow Quantität und Qualität. Der...

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Improving the Effectiveness of Interventions to Balance Conservation and Development: A Conceptual Framework

Garnett, Stephen T.; Sayer, Jeffrey A.; Du Toit, Johan - 2007

"There are numerous case studies around the world describing integrated conservation and development projects (ICDPs). Recently some localized syntheses have been published that use sophisticated statistics to identify patterns and causal linkages, but no attempt has yet been made to draw...

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Policy environments and institutional factors that shape the role of technology in entrepreneurial culture: an exploratory study in Mexico and Canada

Arechavala Vargas, Ricardo; Holbrook, J. Adam; Díaz … - 2008

Entrepreneurship is, by necessity, a function of opportunities and constraints that a given environment presents, together with the vision and project of a new enterprise that the entrepreneur conceives of. His background, skills and motivation shape his ability to convert those opportunities...

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