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Mercados de trabalho formal e informal: uma análise da discriminação e da segmentação

Silva, Nancy de Deus Vieira; Kassouf, Ana Lúcia - In: Nova Economia 10 (2000), pp. 41-77

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WP 2007-6 Charting U.S. Economic Performance with Alternative Labor Market Indicators: The Importance of Accounting for Job Quality

Howell, David R.; Diallo, Mamadou - Bernard Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis … - 2007

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Regionalization and Labour Market Rigidities in Developing Countries: A CGE Analysis of UEMOA

Decaluwe, Bernard; Dissou, Yazid; Robichaud, Véronique - Département d'Économique, Université Laval - 1999

In this study, we analyse the impact of the creation of a customs union among UEMOA (Western African Economic and Monetary Union)countries, with a special emphasis on the labour market structure. The implementation of the customs union reform will translate in most of these countries, into a...

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Introduction to Services and Employment: Explaining the U.S.-European Gap

Gregory, Mary; Salverda, Wiemer; Schettkat, Ronald - Princeton University Press

Why is Europe's employment rate almost 10 percent lower than that of the United States? This "jobs gap" has typically been blamed on the rigidity of European labor markets. But in <i>Services and Employment</i>, an international group of leading labor economists suggests quite a different explanation....

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Aggregate Wage Flexibility in New EU Member States

Babecký, Jan - In: Czech Economic Review 2 (2008) 2, pp. 123-145

A fixed exchange rate regime eliminates one degree of freedom in absorbing macroeconomic shocks. Therefore, there is a call for higher labor market flexibility in countries which are members of the monetary union or those which intend to join the monetary union. Focusing on the cross-country...

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The Harris-Todaro Labor Allocation Mechanism as an Evolutionary Game

Silveira, Jaylson Jair da; Sanson, Joao Rogerio - Econometric Society - 2004

The Harris-Todaro model is reinterpreted under an evolutionary game approach, including the behavior of migrants under bounded rationality in a process of imitation or learning. A first feature is an improvement upon Harris-Todaro by replacing the sign-preserving function of the adjustment...

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The Persistent Segregation of Girls into Lower-Paying Jobs while in School

Kooreman, Peter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

This paper analyzes gender differences in jobs while in high school. The availability of school class based samples … gender wage gaps within job types. It is entirely due to the fact that girls work more in job types with relatively low wages …, in particular babysitting. During the period considered, 1984-2001, the gender patterns of jobs while in school largely …

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Liability-of-Foreignness Effects on Job Success of Immigrant Job Seekers

Fang, Tony; Samnani, Al-Karim; Novicevic, Milorad M.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We examined the liability-of-foreignness (LOF) hypothesis for immigrant and native job seekers by analyzing a national dataset that tracks their use of job-search methods and their associated job outcomes in the Canadian labor market. To our knowledge this is the first empirical test of LOF at...

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Labor market effects of sports and exercise: Evidence from Canadian panel data

Lechner, Michael; Sari, Nazmi - School of Economics and Political Science, Universität … - 2014

Based on the Canadian National Population Health Survey we estimate the effects of individual sports and exercise on individual labor market outcomes. The data covers the period from 1994 to 2008. It is longitudinal and rich in life-style, health, and physical activity information. Exploiting...

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Theory of Semi-Collusion in the Labor Market

Gonzaga, Pedro; Brandão, António; Vasconcelos, Helder - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2014

We study the effects of cooperative wage setting in industries that use two different types of labor. In particular, we consider a two-stage game where firms hire non-specialized workers in a perfectly competitive labor market and specialized workers that are more productive and expensive, but...

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