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Kraft, Kornelius; Lang, Julia - 2011

We analyze the impact of profit sharing on the share of workers receiving training. An effect is plausible because: 1) profit sharing is a credible commitment by firms to reward firm-specific skills acquired by formal or informal training, 2) profit sharing may reduce turnover and increase the...

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What do participation fluctuations tell us about labor supply elasticities?

Haefke, Christian; Reiter, Michael - 2011

In this paper we use information on the cyclical variation of labor market participation to learn about the aggregate labor supply elasticity. For this purpose, we extend the standard labor market matching model to allow for endogenous participation. A model that is calibrated to replicate the...

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Spillovers from conditional cash transfer programs: Bolsa Família and crime in urban Brazil

Chioda, Laura; de Mello, João M. P.; Soares, Rodrigo R. - 2012

. The evidence suggests that the main effect works through increased household income or changed peer group, rather than …

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When the early bird catches the worm: The impact of training in retail

Hinerasky, Christiane; Fahr, René - 2011

We econometrically evaluate the performance effects of a six month e-learning programme in a large retail chain with monthly data on sales revenue, for four years using panel regressions. Participants in early cohorts show positive performance effects during training periods that depreciate...

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Culture, intermarriage, and differentials in second-generation immigrant women's labor supply

Gevrek, Z. Eylem; Gevrek, Deniz; Gupta, Sonam - 2011

specifications and estimation strategies. …

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Who starts a business and who is self-employed in Germany

Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander S.; Rusakova, Alina - 2012

background of these individuals, their education, previous employment status, and their income level. We observe a unique … (almost 20 percent of them being restarters), a decision that pays for the majority of individuals in terms of income …

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International labour force participation rates by gender: Unit root or structural breaks?

Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin; Balcilar, Mehmet; Tansel, Aysit - 2011

This paper examines the possibility of unit roots in the presence of endogenously determined multiple structural breaks in the total, female and male labour force participation rates (LFPR) for Australia, Canada and the USA. We extend the procedure of Gil-Alana (2008) for single structural break...

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Labour market under-utilisation of recent higher education graduates: New Australian panel evidence

Carroll, David; Tani, Massimiliano - 2011

Recent research into the Australian labour market has reported that a substantial proportion of the tertiary-educated labour force is under-utilised relative to their level of education, echoing findings from an expanding international literature. This paper uses recent panel data from the 2010...

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Should easier access to international credit replace foreign aid?

Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Lahiri, Sajal; Younas, Javed - 2011

We examine the interaction between foreign aid and binding borrowing constraint for a recipient country. We also analyze how these two instruments affect economic growth via non-linear relationships. First of all, we develop a two-country, two-period trade-theoretic model to develop testable...

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The formal/informal employment earnings gap: Evidence from Turkey

Tansel, Aysit; Öznur Kan, Elif - 2012

econometric methodologies and a novel panel data set drawn from the 2006-2009 Income and Living Conditions Survey (SILC). In … typically subject to lower remuneration than similar workers in the formal sector. Estimation of standard Mincer earnings …-tier jobs being largely penalized. Finally, fixed effects estimation of the earnings gap depict that unobserved individual fixed …

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