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Monetary and labor policies under market frictions
Christian Merkl - 2007
in East Germany after unification, the existence of unemployment traps, their influence on labor market persistence and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009428998
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Beschäftigungsstabilität und betriebliche Beschäftigungssysteme in West- und Ostdeutschland
Köhler, Christoph; Struck, Olaf; Bultemeier, Anja; … - Sonderforschungsbereich Gesellschaftliche Entwicklungen … - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864269
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A day with Peter F. Drucker, volume VIII, tape 2
Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand) - 1990
During Peter Drucker’s talk entitled "Business and Management: The Changing Corporation" he discusses: joint alliances and market agreements, parent companies and their subsidiaries, changing technology and markets, seniority and Japanese companies, mutual funds and pensions, mortgages,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429632
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Understanding the Spanish business innovation gap : the role of spillovers and firms' absorptive capacity
López García, Paloma; Montero Montero, José Manuel - 2010
This paper investigates whether the existence of knowledge spillovers, differences in the capacity of firms to assimilate them and disparities in some human resource management practices are related with the decision to innovate of Spanish firms. In order to do this, we employ data from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012530302
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CAP effects on labour use in agriculture: Evidence from alternative dynamic panel data models
Petrick, Martin; Zier, Patrick - 2010
Our aim is to investigate whether the direct payments and rural development measures of theEU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) do make jobs in agriculture safer. We work with adynamic labour demand equation that is augmented by the full set of policy instruments of theCAP. It is estimated on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446120
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Changing wage structure and education in Vietnam 1993-1998: The roles of demand
Liu, Amy - 2005
This paper examines the changes in relative earnings of workers with different education levels during Vietnam’s transition. It is found that females enjoy a higher return to education than males do in 1998, reversing the situation observed five years ago. A large fall in the returns to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009451767
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Changes in the wage structure in EU countries
Christopoulou, Rebekka; Jimeno Serrano, Juan F.; Lamo, Ana - 2010
We study changes in the wage structures in nine EU countries over 1995-2002 and the role of demand, supply and institutional developments in shaping these changes. Using comparable cross-country microeconomic data, we compute for each country and at each decile of the wage distribution, the part...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012530303
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Accounting for changes in the Spanish wage distribution : the role of employment composition
Carrasco, Raquel; Jimeno Serrano, Juan F.; Ortega, A. … - 2011
A pesar de una rápida disminución del desempleo, los salarios reales en España apenas aumentaron durante el periodo 1995-2006. Una posible explicación de este comportamiento se refiere a la importancia de los efectos composición derivados de algunos cambios estructurales, tales como el...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012530347
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Essays on crime and search frictions
Engelhardt, Bryan - 2008
program. An on-the-job search model with crime is used to model criminal behavior, derive the estimation method and analyze … four and a half months to find a job. Combining these results, it is demonstrated that reducing the average unemployment … of various labor market and crime policies such as unemployment insurance, hiring subsidies and the duration of jail …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009466027
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UNEMPLOYMENT, IDENTITY, AND SELF-CONFIDENCE: THEORETICAL MODELS AND EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE
Nolen, Patrick - 2006
In the leading chapter of this dissertation, "Unemployment, Vulnerability and Poverty: A New Class of Measures, Its … Axiomatic Properties and Applications," we, Kaushik Basu and myself, derive a new class of measures for unemployment or poverty …. Measures of unemployment and poverty have usually focused solely on those currently unemployed or below the poverty line …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009466172