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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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Accounting for externalities in the measurement of productivity growth: the Malmquist cost productivity measure.

Ball, E.; Fare, R.; Grosskopf, S.; Zaim, O. - 2005

This paper starts with the basic premise: that conventional measures of productivity growth - - -often used as a measure of corporate performance - - -which ignore external or social output, are biased. We then construct an alternative productivity growth measure using activity analysis which...

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14.662 Labor Economics II, Spring 2005

Autor, David H.; Piore, Michael J. - 2005

The development and evolution of labor market structures and institutions. Particular focus on competing explanations of recent developments in the distribution of wage and salary income and in key institutions and organizational structures. Special attention to theories of worker motivation and...

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Networks, Information & Social Capital

Aral, Sinan; Van Alstyne, Marshall - 2008

This paper investigates how information flows enable social networks to constitute social capital. By analyzingthe information content encoded in email communication in an executive recruiting firm, we examinethe long held but empirically untested assumption that diverse networks drive economic...

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Senior women managers’ transition to entrepreneurship: Leveraging embedded career capital

Terjesen, Siri A. - 2005

Purpose – This paper aims to explore the phenomenon of senior women managers leaving corporate organisations to start their own companies. Women's advancement to senior management roles is facilitated by the acquisition of human capital and social capital. Female ex-corporate managers leverage...

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