The aim of this paper is to investigate the network effect on the probability of job finding. This paper uses a specific data set from the Izmir region, prepared by the Turkish Statistical Institute for a specific project carried out by Izmir University of Economics in cooperation with the Izmir...

We develop four rules of thumb for estimating how industry level employment responds to changes in production. These rules can be used to estimate employment effects when labor and capital are not explicitly modeled. Many employment estimates from these types of analyses assert that labor...

This paper studies the impact of access to education in a search and matching model of the labor market representing a developping economy. It then addresses the issue of the impact on the market efficiency of public policies aiming at increasing education. Developing economies are well known...

This paper presents an analysis of the findings of a survey on a sample of Portuguese firms. The main aim is to identify some relevant characteristics about the dynamics of prices and wages in PortugalSurvey data; Probit modelsThe most important conclusions are: i) changes to wages are more...

The aim of this paper is to carry out a sectorial causality analysis between prices and unit labour costs for the Spanish regions. In order to achieve our goal, we have developed our own database for the unit labour costs (ULC). It includes data for Spain and five of its regions: Andalusia,...

This study aims to evaluate the results of a test of the access to interviews of young men of French and North African origin in order to highlight the possible existence and extent of discriminatory practices against persons of foreign origin (North African). We innovate by the fact that we...

The voucher in education firmly relies on the parent´s ability to choose their child´s school. One factor which may reduce this choice is the presence of switching costs, caused by factors such as the stress that children experience and the loss of social networks. We develop a methodology...

The main purpose of this study is to carry out descriptive and econometric analyses (at the province and district levels) to identify the urbanization–related determinants of the electoral success of the currently-ruling Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi, AKP). The AKP...