Using data from the European Community Household Panel for the period 1995-2001, in this paper we show that there are sizeable public sector wage differences among regions that are mostly due to differences in returns, and to a lesser extent to differences in characteristics and to selection...

In this paper we find out the determinants of consumption variations depending on the employment transitions experienced by household members. We set up a utility-maximizing household search model in which consumption and job search decisions are made jointly. Families determine a level of...

This paper presents a survey of the most recent literature about Equilibrium Search Models with wage posting. Starting with the basic Burdett and Mortensen (1998) model. I describe the main consequences of departing from its two main assumptions: random matching and a linear production function....

Unemployment rates in developed countries have recently reached levels not seen in a generation, and workers of all ages are facing increasing probabilities of losing their jobs and considerable losses in accumulated assets. These events have increased the reliance that most (older) workers have...

We study the antecedents that help explaining how firms should deal with CSR in this modern economy where there is a heightened demand for firms to behave in a socially responsible manner, and also why some firms succeed with their CSR initiatives while others fail. We believe (1) different...

In this work, we develop a new model for competition in markets with differentiated products. In addition, we present a consumer model designed to produce a flexible nonlinear inverse demand system that resembles the classical Multinomial Logit model, and discuss several extensions. We...

Over the past two decades, China has come to dominate internationalcommerce in copper. The importance of the Shanghai Futures Exchange(SHFE) has increased in response to this development. We look at thedistribution of price discovery between the SHFE and the two historicallyimportant copper...

This paper reports research on the relationship between sourcing strategy of a firm and its environmental innovation propensity. The data is taken from the Spanish TechnologicalInnovation Panel (PITEC) survey during the period of 2007-2011. The uniqueness of the Spanish innovation structure and...