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Do Russian firms need ISO certification for exporting?
Golikova, Viktorija V.; Kuznetsov, Boris - 2014 - First draft
self-select for ISO by size and productivity as well as by being a supplier of a foreign-owned company in Russia. Then we …
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Wages, rents, unemployment, and the quality of life
Wrede, Matthias - 2013 - This version: March 2013
Combining a spatial equilibrium model with a search-matching unemployment model, this paper analyzes the willingness to pay for regional amenities and the regional quality of life when wages, rents, and unemployment risk compensate for local amenities and disamenities. The results are compared...
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A new career in a new town : job search methods and regional mobility of unemployed workers
Morescalchi, Andrea - 2016
data. Unemployment spells are defined as a series of monthly episodes ending up in a transition to job or out of labour … as intrinsically discrete by employing a multinomial logit model with data organized in person-month form (Allison, 1982 …
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The role of incomplete information in shaping policy effects : evidence from unemployment insurance
Arni, Patrick; Liu, Xingfei - 2020
Standard program evaluations implicitly assume that individuals are perfectly informed about the considered policy change and the related institutional rules. This seems not very plausible in many contexts, as diverse examples show. However, evidence on how incomplete information affects the...
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Loss aversion in the trade-off between wages and commuting distances
Dauth, Wolfgang; Haller, Peter - 2019
We exploit administrative data on exact commuting distances for a large sample of German employees and study the relation of commuting and wages. We find that it requires 1.5 times as much money in terms of higher wages for job changers to accept an increase of their commute as compared to their...
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Job matching on non separated occupational labour markets
Stops, Michael - 2011 - Preliminary and not completed version
This work refers to analyses of matching processes on occupational labour markets in Germany. Up to now, all studies in this field are based on the crucial assumption of separate occupational labour markets. I outlined some theoretical considerations that occupational markets are probably not...
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A joint theory of polarization and deunionization
Foll, Tobias; Hartmann, Anna - 2019
Over the past 50 years, the U.S. and several European labor markets have undergone two most incisive developments: job market polarization and deunionization. In this paper, we argue that routine-biased technical change is not only the driving force behind polarization, as prevalently assumed,...
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Social optimum in a model with hierarchical firms and endogenous promotion time
Mitkova, Mariya Valeriy - 2020
This paper develops a search and matching model with hierarchical firms, human capital accumulation, internal promotions and on-the-job search. At the time of their market entry firms maximize present value of profits with respect to their promotion rule. Workers who are eligible for promotion...
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A search and matching approach to business-cycle migration in the euro area
Clemens, Marius; Hart, Janine - 2019
Recently migration patterns in the euro area changed markedly in response to increasing unemployment disparities. This reinforced the interest in labor mobility as stabilization tool against the background of heterogeneous labor market conditions. In a data set of 55 bilateral migration...
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Interregional differentiation of the youth unemployment rate in Russia
Blinova, Tatiana; Markov, Vladimir; Rusanovskij, Viktor A. - 2015
statistical assessment of interregional differences in youth unemployment in Russia. The unemployment rate was decomposed into … the rates, dynamics and factors of unemployment among the young people aged 15-19 and 20-29 years for 77 regions of Russia … unemployment rates depicts the different rates of the recovery growth in the regions of Russia, as well as the unequal efficiency …
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