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Tenures that Shook the World: Worker Turnover in Russia, Poland and Britain

Lehmann, Hartmut; Wadsworth, Jonathan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999

flatter in Russia than and steeper and lower in Poland than in Britain. The characteristics of workers hired in the state and … private sectors do not look very different. State and private sector firms in Poland offer the same wages to new recruits, but … new private sector jobs in Russia appear to offer wage premia relative to new state jobs. We argue that these observations …

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Do Larger Severance Payments Increase Individual Job Duration?

Garibaldi, Pietro; Pacelli, Lia - Collegio Carlo Alberto, Università degli Studi di Torino - 2007

This paper analyzes the effect of severance payments on the probability of separation at given tenure, wages and other individual and firm characteristics. It studies a mandatory deferred wage scheme of the Italian labour market (Trattamento di Fine Rapporto, TFR). Deferred wages increase job...

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Apprenticeship and After: Does it Really Matter?

Winkelmann, Rainer - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

Using data from the German socio-economic panel this paper analyses the labour market entrance of former apprentices, as well as of university and full-time school graduates. There are three main findings. First, the retention rate of apprentices in their training firms is fairly low. Second,...

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They are even larger! More (on) puzzling labor market volatilities

Gartner, Hermann; Merkl, Christian; Rothe, Thomas - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2009

"This paper shows that the German labor market is more volatile than the US labor market at the business cycle frequency. Specifically, the volatility of the cyclical component of several labor market variables (e.g., the job-finding rate, the labor market tightness and vacancies) divided by the...

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They are even larger! More (on) puzzling labor market volatilities

Gartner, Hermann; Merkl, Christian; Rothe, Thomas - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2009

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The organization of European football and the competitive balance within and between nations

KÉSENNE, Stefan - Faculteit Toegepaste Economische Wetenschappen, … - 2005

In this paper, we try to show that, apart from the negative impact of the Champions League, the growing gap between the Big 5 football countries in Europe and the smaller countries is caused by the deregulation of the European player labour market without deregulating the European football...

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The Impact of Structural Policies on Trade-Related Adjustment and the Shift to Services

Kongsrud, Per Mathis; Wanner, Isabelle - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2005

What policy reforms are most urgently needed to remove obstacles to output and employment growth in service sectors and to enhance economies’ ability to adjust to structural change as a result of changing trade patterns? This paper reviews the impact of the structural policy framework...

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The Impact of Training on Labour Mobility

Felstead, Alan; Green, Francis; Mayhew, Ken; Pack, Alan - School of Economics, University of Kent - 1999

The paper investigates the impact of different types of training on the mobility expectations of workers, using two new data sets, one of individuals the other of firms. The innovation is that the data incorporate measures of the degree of transferability of training, improved information on the...

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Labour Mobility of Academic Inventors. Career Decision and Knowledge Transfer

Crespi, Gustavo A.; Geuna, Aldo; Nesta, Lionel J. J. - Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU), School … - 2006

This paper focuses on university inventors mobility in the EU countries. It is the first quantitative assessment of this phenomenon and is the basis for a set of econometric models that try to explain how different factors affect the mobility of academics and their choices: to stay, to move to...

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Vertical occupational mobility and its measurement

Lindley, Joanne Kathryn; Dex, Shirley; Ward, Kelly - Department of Economics, University of Sheffield - 2007

This paper describes a number of alternative approaches to devising a vertical occupational scale and compares the outcomes of different scales on calculations of occupational mobility. The paper describes the conceptual issues relevant to calculating occupational mobility and documents the...

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