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The Spot Market Matters : Evidence on Implicit Contracts from Britain
Devereux, Paul J.; Hart, Robert A. - 2005
Based on the methodology of Beaudry and DiNardo (1991), this paper investigates the relative importance of the spot market and implicit contracts in the determination of British real wages. Empirical work is carried out separately for males and females with individuallevel data taken from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262212
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Do the selfish mimic cooperators? Experimental evidence from finitely-repeated labor markets
Roe, Brian E.; Wu, Steven Y. - 2009
Experimental studies have consistently shown that cooperative outcomes can emerge even in finitely repeated games. Such outcomes are justified by existing reputation building models, which suggest that cooperative outcomes can be sustained if some subjects have other-regarding preferences. While...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269268
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Implicit contracts, unemployment, and labor market segmentation
Altmann, Steffen; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David - 2010
We analyze the impact of imperfect contract enforcement on the emergence of unemployment. In an experimental labor market where trading parties can form long-term employment relationships, we compare a work environment where effort is observable, but not verifiable to a situation where explicit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269827
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Non-pecuniary Work Incentive and Labor Supply
Farzin, Y. Hossein; Akao, Ken-Ichi - 2006
Recognizing that people value employment not only to earn income to satisfy their consumption needs, but also as a means to gain socio-psychological (nonpecuniary) benefits, we show that once nonpecuniary work incentives are incorporated into standard labor supply theory, (i) the wage rate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312270
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Import protection, business cycles, and exchange rates: Evidence from the great recession
Bown, Chad P.; Crowley, Meredith A. - 2011
This paper uses highly detailed, quarterly data for five major industrialized economies to estimate the impact of macroeconomic fluctuations on import protection policies over 1988:Q1 - 2010:Q4. First, estimates on a pre-Great Recession sample of data provide evidence of two key relationships....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292150
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Age, period and cohort effects on migration of the baby boomers in Australia
Sander, Nikola; Bell, Martin - 2012
effects. This paper focuses on inter-cohort differences in the intensity and pattern of internal migration in Australia, while … Australian baby boom compared to the US. The baby boom in Australia was delayed and much smaller in terms of absolute and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352566
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Immigrants' Language Skills: The Australian Experience in a Longitudinal Survey
Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W. - 2002
Australia, is used to test the model. This survey had three waves, at about 6 months, 18 months and 3? years after immigration …
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Immigrants' Language Skills and Visa Category
Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W. - 2002
for Australia. It focuses on both visa category and variables derived from an economic model of the determinants of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262780
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The Determinants of the Geographic Concentration among Immigrants: Application to Australia
Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W. - 2002
concentrated. Testing the model for Australia shows that the extent of geographic concentration of immigrant groups is negatively … related to age at migration, duration of residence in Australia and the proportion of the birthplace group that is fluent in … the country of origin and the place of residence in Australia. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262788
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Longitudinal Analysis of Immigrant Occupational Mobility: A Test of the Immigrant Assimilation Hypothesis
Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W. - 2002
tests the hypotheses using data on adult males from the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia. The theoretical … includes data on pre-immigration occupation, the ?first? occupation in Australia (at 6 months) and the occupation after about 3 ….5 years in Australia. The hypotheses are supported by the empirical analysis. …
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