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Non-economic perspectives on the job network

Eardley, Tony - In: Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) 6 (2003) 2, pp. 317-329

From a traditional economist’s viewpoint the Job Network can be viewed simply as another set of labour market programs and labour exchange processes. Much of the research interest in the Network, however, has gone beyond just its capacity to produce more effective and efficient labour market...

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Regional Unemployment Disparities: Can Fiscal Policy Help?

Groenewold, Nicolaas; Hagger, A.J. - In: Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) 7 (2004) 1, pp. 13-37

Regional unemployment disparities are widely observed, appear to persist through time and are often a reason for concern on the part of both regional and national governments. This paper constructs a small two-region general-equilibrium model and uses it to assess the effectiveness of...

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The Housing and Educational Consequences of the School Choice Provisions of NCLB: Evidence from Charlotte, NC

Brunner, Eric J.; Ross, Stephen; Billings, Stephen - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2014

We examine the housing market, residential mobility, and academic performance changes that occur soon after a school … find that residential mobility decreases while the probability of attending a non-assigned traditional school or magnet …

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THE BRAIN DRAIN PHENOMENON AND IT’S MANIFESTATION AMONG A SAMPLE OF ROMANIAN STUDENTS

DEACONU, ALECXANDRINA; POPESCU, ALEXANDRA MIHAELA; … - In: International Conference Modern Approaches in … 5 (2011) 1, pp. 150-155

workers on the world economy and economic policy, with special reference to the students mobility. The brain drain phenomenon …

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Job Mobility, Peer Effects, and Research Productivity in Economics

Bolli, Thomas; Schläpfer, Jörg - KOF Swiss Economic Institute, Department of Management, … - 2013

Analysing a comprehensive panel dataset of economists working at Austrian, German, and Swiss universities, we investigate how the local environment influences a scientist’s research productivity. The research environment varies if a scientist joins another department or if the characteristics...

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Labour Market Segmentation, Flexibility and Precariousness in the Italian North East

Tattara, Giuseppe; Valentini, Marco - In: Non-Standard Employment and Quality of Work. The Case …

This chapter discusses the relation between flexibility and precariousness by using a longitudinal panel constructed from the administrative records of the Italian Social Security System (Inps) and compiled at the Department of Economics, Venice University. The data set concerns the entire...

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Are there Etchnic Inequality Traps in Education ? Empirical Evidence for Brazil and Chile

Cruces, Guillermo; Bérgolo, Marcelo; Conconi, Andriana; … - Partenariat en Politiques Économiques (PEP), … - 2012

mobility have risen in both countries, ethnic disparities remain significant. In particular, the evidence is suggestive of an …

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Intraregionale Unterschiede in der Carsharing-Nachfrage - eine GIS-basierte empirische Analyse

Braun, Andreas; Hochschild, Volker; Koch, Andreas - Institut für Angewandte Wirtschaftsforschung (IAW) - 2013

Carsharing has been growing significantly throughout the last years. However, the density of regional supply largely differs between urban and rural regions, between cities and also within cities and regions. Particularly the question of intraregional differences in the demand for carsharing is...

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Separations at the firm level

Gautier, Pieter A.; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Ours, Jan … - Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en … - 1999

This paper analyzes the determinants of lay-offs, job-to-job movements and total separations with a unique data set that combines information on individual firms and their workers. We are in particular interested in whether the lay-off policy of firms can explain the relatively high level of...

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Does Development Reduce Migration? - Working Paper 359

Clemens, Michael - 2014

recent data suggest something quite different: that over the course of a “mobility transition”, emigration generally rises …. This note quantifies the shape of the mobility transition in every decade since 1960. It then briefly surveys 45 years of … research, which has yielded six classes of theory to explain the mobility transition and numerous tests of its existence and …

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