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A Couples-Based Approach to the Problem of Workless Families

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Ryan, Chris; Breunig, Robert - 2003

partnered with men receiving unemployment benefits) were randomly invited to participate in an interview process designed to …

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Is the New Immigration Really So Bad?

Card, David Edward - 2004

This paper reviews the recent evidence on U.S. immigration, focusing on two key questions: (1) Does immigration reduce the labor market opportunities of less-skilled natives? (2) Have immigrants who arrived after the 1965 Immigration Reform Act successfully assimilated? Looking across major...

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Do You Need a Job to Find a Job?

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Frijters, Paul; Kalb, Guyonne - 2004

unemployment. To this end, we take advantage of a unique Australian data set which contains information on both accepted and … rejected job offers. Our estimation strategy takes account of the selectivity associated with the initial employment state and … range, individuals are about equally likely to obtain a job offer in employment as in unemployment. This implies that …

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The Effect of Firm-Level Contracts on the Structure of Wages : Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data

Card, David Edward; de la Rica, Sara - 2004

In Spain, as in several other European countries, sectoral bargaining agreements are automatically extended to cover all firms in an industry. Employers and employees can also negotiate firm-specific contracts. We use a large matched employer-employee data set to study the effects of firm-level...

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Price dispersion in the Euro Area : the case of a symmetric oil price shock

Carstensen, Kai; Hülsewig, Oliver; Wollmershäuser, Timo - 2009

This paper studies the causes of price dispersion in the euro area emerging in response to a shock that hits all member countries symmetrically. We use a panel VAR model which is estimated over the period 1996 - 2007 to generate impulse responses of a range of price and wage variables to an oil...

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Terrorism from within: an economic model of terrorism

Blomberg, S. Brock; Hess, Gregory D.; Weerapana, Akila - 2002

In this paper, we develop and explore the implications of an economic model that links the incidence of terrorism in a country to the economic circumstances facing that country. We briefly sketch out a theory, in the spirit of Tornell (1998), that describes terrorist activities as being...

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For better or for worse? State-level marital formation and risk sharing

Chami, Ralph; Hess, Gregory D. - 2002

Why do some U.S. states have higher levels of marital formation than others? This paper introduces an economic model wherein a state's representative individual may choose to marry in order to diversity his or her idiosyncratic income risk. The paper demonstrates that such a diversification...

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Circular migration: counts of exits and years away from the host country

Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2007

The economic literature has largely overlooked the importance of repeat and circular migration. The paper studies this behavior by analyzing the number of exits and the total number of years away from the host country using count data models and panel data from Germany. More than 60% of migrants...

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Testing for poverty dominance: an application to Canada

Chen, Wen-Hao; Duclos, Jean-Yves - 2008

The paper proposes and applies statistical tests for poverty dominance that check for whether poverty comparisons can be made robustly over ranges of poverty lines and classes of poverty indices. This helps provide both normative and statistical confidence in establishing poverty rankings across...

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Locus of control and job search strategies

Caliendo, Marco; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2010

Standard job search theory assumes that unemployed individuals have perfect information about the effect of their search effort on the job offer arrival rate. In this paper, we present an alternative model which assumes instead that each individual has a subjective belief about the impact of his...

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