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The Performance of Sample Selection Estimators to Control for Attrition Bias.

Grasdal, A. - Institutt for Økonomi, Universitetet i Bergen - 2001

This paper combines survey and register data from a Norwegian randomized field trial to evaluate the performance of parametric and semi-parametric sample selection estimators commonly used to correct for attrition bias.

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Determinants of Employment Growth at MNEs: Evidence from Egypt, India, South Africa and Vietnam

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Meyer, Klaus; Estrin, Saul - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2004

Foreign investors are expected to contribute to economic development through a variety of channels. However, many foreign investment operations are small, and almost insignificant in their impact on the local environment. An important indication of the potential contribution of foreign investors...

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WAGE DETERMINATION: PRIVATISED, NEW PRIVATE AND STATE OWNED COMPANIES. EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM PANEL DATA

Mickiewicz, Tomasz; Bishop, Kate - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2003

This paper examines the determinants of wage pressure in large companies, including ownership characteristics and the impact of regional labour markets. By using a panel of 329 Polish largest firms during the period 1997- 2001, we find evidence of rent sharing activities, however there is also...

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Mudanças no padrão de uso da mão-de-obra no Brasil entre 1949 e 2010 [Changes in labor use standards in Brazil between 1949 and 2010]

Bêrni, Duilio de Avila - In: Nova Economia 16 (2006) 1, pp. 139-172

This article examines the evolution of sectoral employment in Brazil between 1949 and 2010, using structural decomposition analysis of the input-output model. The data base was selected from the decennial matrices for the 1959/2000 period and from figures referring to 1949 and 2010; these were...

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Can a Representative Agent Model Represent a Heterogeneous Agent Economy?

An, Sungbae; Chang, Yongsung; Kim, Sun-Bin - Institute of Economic Research, Korea University - 2007

Accounting for observed uctuations in aggregate employment, consumption, and real wage using optimality conditions of a representative household often requires preferences that are incompatible with economic priors (e.g., Mankiw, Rotemberg, and Summers, 1985). This discrepancy between the...

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Where Do the Sick Go? Health Insurance and Employment in Small and Large Firms

Kapur, Kanika; Escarce, José J; Marquis, M Susan; … - School of Economics, University College Dublin - 2006

). In a survey of small employers that did not offer health insurance, 75 percent claimed that an important reason for not …, they renege on the implicit compensation contract with workers. Employers may opt to raise employee contributions to cover … high match specific productivity. Employers may obtain information about employees’ medical conditions in several ways …

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Interviews and Adverse Selection

Josephson, Jens; Shapiro, Joel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

Interviewing in professional labour markets is a costly process for firms. Moreover, poor screening can have a persistent negative impact on firms' bottom lines and candidates' careers. In a simple dynamic model where firms can pay a cost to interview applicants who have private information...

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Do Employment Protections Reduce Productivity? Evidence from U.S. States

Autor, David H.; Kerr, William R.; Kugler, Adriana D. - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2007

Theory predicts that mandated employment protections may reduce productivity by distorting production choices. Firms facing (non-Coasean) worker dismissal costs will curtail hiring below efficient levels and retain unproductive workers, both of which should affect productivity. These theoretical...

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Whodunnit? Changes in the Relative Demand for Unskilled and Skilled Labor

Schimmelpfennig, Axel - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1999

The secular shift in labor demand from unskilled to skilled labor is explained within a model that is solved numerically. There are three branches producing a basic good, a differentiated luxury good, and an intermediate service. Production is more skill-intensive in the luxury good and the...

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The Macroeconomics of the Labor Market: Three Fundamental Views

Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector; Snower, Dennis - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2007

We distinguish and assess three fundamental views of the labor market regarding the movements in unemployment: (i) the frictionless equilibrium view; (ii) the chain reaction theory, or prolonged adjustment view; and (iii) the hysteresis view. While the frictionless view implies a clear...

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