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Savings preference of rural households : empirical evidence from tomato farmers in Ghana
Aidoo-Mensah, Daniel - In: African journal of economic and sustainable development 7 (2020) 3, pp. 236-255
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Technological progress with segmented factor markets and welfare implications for the urban poor
Mukherjee, Soumyatanu; Zafar, Sameen - 2015
poverty by modelling the impact of technological progress in the formal sectors of the economy on the urban informal wage in a … in the capital intensive segment of the formal sectors affects the urban informal workers adversely, whereas productivity … improvement only in the less capital intensive sector benefits them. The sensitivity analysis demonstrates that when both formal …
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Evaluating the search and matching model with sticky wages
Reicher, Christopher Phillip - 2010
Several authors have proposed staggered wage bargaining as a way to introduce sticky wages into search and matching models while preserving individual rationality. I evaluate the quantitative implications of such an approach. I feed through a series of estimated shocks from US data into a search...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274434
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Evaluating the search and matching model with sticky wages
Reicher, Christopher Phillip - 2010
Several authors have proposed staggered wage bargaining as a way to introduce sticky wages into search and matching models while preserving individual rationality. I evaluate the quantitative implications of such an approach. I feed through a series of estimated shocks from US data into a search...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008905754
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Catastrophic job destruction
Carneiro, Anabela; Portugal, Pedro; Varejão, José M. - 2013
In this article we study the resilience of the Portuguese labor market, in terms of job flows, employment and wage developments, in the context of the current recession. We single out the huge contribution of job destruction, especially due to the closing of existing firms, to the dramatic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010199018
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Labor market polarization over the business cycle
Foote, Christopher L.; Ryan, Richard W. - 2014 - This version: December 26, 2014
One of the most important long-run trends in the U.S. labor market is polarization, defined as the relative growth of employment in high-skill jobs (such as management and technical positions) and low-skill jobs (such as food-service and janitorial work) amid the concurrent decline in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010493670
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Employment cyclicality and firm quality
Kahn, Lisa B.; McEntarfer, Erika - 2014
Who fares worse in an economic downturn, low- or high-paying firms? Different answers to this question imply very different consequences for the costs of recessions. Using U.S. employer-employee data, we find that employment growth at low-paying firms is less cyclically sensitive. High-paying...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010436157
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The Low-Skill, Bad-Job Trap
Snower, Dennis J. - 2008
The paper explains how a country can fall into a quot;low-skill, bad-job trap,quot; in which workers acquire insufficient training and firms provide insufficient skilled vacancies. In particular, the paper argues that in countries where a large proportion of the workforce is unskilled, firms...
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Zero-hours contracts in a frictional labor market
Dolado, Juan J.; Lalé, Etienne; Turon, Hélène - 2022
We propose a model to evaluate the U.K.’s zero-hours contract (ZHC) – a contract that exempts employers from the requirement to provide any minimum working hours, and allows workers to decline any workload. We find quantitatively mixed welfare effects of ZHCs. On one hand they unlock job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012803624
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Zero-hours contracts in a frictional labor market
Dolado, Juan J.; Lalé, Etienne; Turon, Hélène - 2021
We propose a model to evaluate the U.K.'s zero-hours contract (ZHC) - a contract that exempts employers from the requirement to provide any minimum working hours, and allows employees to decline any workload. We find quantitatively that ZHCs improve welfare by enabling firms with more volatile...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012803713