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Cyclicality of job and worker flows : new data and a new set of stylized facts ; conference paper

Bachmann, Ruediger; Bayer, Christian; Seth, Stefan; … - 2013

We study the relationship between cyclical job and worker flows at the plant level using a new data set spanning from 1976-2006. We find that procyclical labor demand explains relatively little of procyclical worker flows. Instead, all plants in the employment growth distribution increase their...

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Firing costs : eurosclerosis or eurosuccesses? : paper presented at the HWWA Workshop, August 26-27, 1999, on "Uncertainty and Factor Demands", organized by Michael Funke (Universi...

Chen, Yu-Fu; Snower, Dennis J.; Gylfi Zoega; Funke, Michael - HWWA Workshop on Uncertainty and Factor Demands <1999, …; … - 1999

In this paper we analyse the employment implications of firing restrictions. We find that when a recession is expected and the trend rate of productivity growth is small, a rise in firing costs affects mainly the hiring decision. Thus there is a negative effect on average employment. When, on...

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Structural change and the freight transport labour market : prepared for the Roundtable on Commercial Vehicle On-Board Safety Systems, January 5-6, 2017, Washington, DC

Blix, Mårten - Roundtable on Commercial Vehicle On-Board Safety … - 2017

Nations that have managed to become rich have had institutional features that supported incentives for value creation while ensuring that the ways insiders and special interest groups can extract monopoly rents are limited. Improved skills have been a central component of helping individuals and...

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Is the equal sharing of market work and family duties hampered by financial means or constraints? : evidence from a structural labor supply model with involuntary unemployment and...

Müller, Kai-Uwe; Neumann, Michael; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2014 - Preliminary version: February 19, 2014

This paper analyzes the question why desired and actual sharing of market work and family duties among parents with young children in Germany fall apart. Potential explanations include financial incentives favoring the single-earner model, as well as constraints in choosing working hours due to...

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The returns to education for opportunity entrepreneurs, necessity entrepreneurs, and paid employees : conference paper

Fossen, Frank M.; Büttner, Tobias - 2013

We assess the relevance of formal education on the productivity of the self-employed and distinguish between opportunity entrepreneurs, who voluntarily pursue a business opportunity, and necessity entrepreneurs, who lack alternative employment options. We expect differences in the returns to...

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Panelanalysen zu Lohnstruktur, Qualifikation und Beschäftigungsdynamik

Bellmann, Lutz (ed.) - 1999

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Monitoring stationarity and cointegration : conference paper

Wagner, Martin; Wied, Dominik - 2014

cointegrating relationship to a spurious regression. The cointegration monitoring procedure is based on residuals from modified … least squares estimation, using either Fully Modified, Dynamic or Integrated Modified OLS. The procedure is inspired by Chu … et al. (1996) in that it is based on parameter estimation only on a pre-break ``calibration'' period rather than being …

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