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This Paper surveys major empirical regularities concerning changes in earnings inequality in Europe and the US over the past 25 years. Next, it indicates which of these regularities can be explained within the competitive demand–supply framework of analysis and what is left unexplained....
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This paper examines the endogenous interaction between the rise in female labor force participation and changes in both the method and mode of production that occurred during the early part of the 20th century. Within a dynamic general equilibrium framework, an exogenous expansion in the skill...
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these transitions allows the identification of duration dependence in the job offer arrival rate and the wage offer … likelihood. The results show that the presence of significant negative duration dependence in the wage offer distribution causes … reservation wages to decrease. The rate at which job offers arrive is constant over the unemployment duration. These findings …
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negatively selected on unobservables. A beneficial (unemployment-duration reducing) causal effect of internet job search is …
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In this paper, we compile a unique historical dataset that records strike activity in the British engineering industry from 1920 to 1970. These data have the advantage of containing a fairly homogenous set of companies and workers, covering a long period with varying labour market conditions,...
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This paper develops a simple model that analyses the relationship between a country's oil endowment and the duration of … coup d'état and establish a new dictator. The relationship between oil endowment and the duration of the dictatorial regime … is modulated by the price of oil. Applying an empirical survival model on data for the duration of 106 dictatorships …
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The aim of this paper is to explore the patterns of trade duration across regions and to identify its determinants … variables on the duration of trade relationships from 96 countries from 1995 to 2004. Our results suggest first that the … duration of trade relationships increases with the region level of development: trade relationships from richer economies face …
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end in sight. In this short paper we assess empirically what determines the duration of trade negotiations, focusing on …
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Schließungen nicht wettbewerbsfähiger Betriebe sind ein wesentliches Element der Marktwirtschaft, werden aber oft kontrovers diskutiert. Wie hoch ist das Risiko einer Betriebsschließung überhaupt und wie hat es sich im Lauf der Zeit entwickelt? Welche Betriebe sind besonders gefährdet?...
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