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Working Hours Flexibility and Older Workers' Labor Supply
Gielen, A. C. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2007
This paper studies the presence of hours constraints on the UK labor market and its effect on older workers labor supply, both at the extensive and the intensive margin. Using panel data for the period 1991-2004, the results from a competing risks model show that over-employed male workers can...
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Permanent and Transitory Wage Inequality of British Men, 1975-2001: Year, Age and Cohort Effects
Alessie, R.; Kalwij, A.S. - School of Economics, Universiteit Utrecht - 2003
We examine the variance-covariance structure of log-wages over time and over the lifecycle of British men from 1975 to 2001, hereby controlling for cohort effects. Wage inequality has risen sharply during the 1980’s and early 1990’s and remained fairly constant in the second half...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011200224
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Long Term Youth Unemployment or Disposable Workforce?
Contini, Bruno; Grand, Elisa - Collegio Carlo Alberto, Università degli Studi di Torino - 2012
This paper is about very long term unemployment (a more appropriate denomination could be "out-of-official-employment") in Italy, its concentration and the process of young worker disposal, an important, yet unexplored, determinant. “Very long” is not just “long”: we are dealing with...
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Was nach dem Auto kommt
Fiala, Ernst - 1994 - Erstaufl.
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The convergence of disparate technologies and the impact for corporate real estate
Geaney, John - In: Journal of Corporate Real Estate 6 (2004) 4, pp. 345-352
In the same way that markets consolidate as they mature, technologies also tend to converge, so that over time more and more application areas can be served by the same technology. As technology that was once firmly in the domain of traditional information technology (IT) converges with areas...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014851809
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A multigenerational mobility study: empirical evidence from Brazil
Marchon, Cassia - In: Journal of Economic Studies 41 (2014) 4, pp. 494-525
Purpose – Most intergenerational mobility studies use data on two generations to estimate the elasticity between son … relationships between a person's earnings and family background yielded by intergenerational mobility models such as Becker … parents, and reinforces consideration of this factor in intergenerational mobility studies. Social implications – The findings …
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Labor mobility across the formal/informal divide in Turkey
Tansel, Aysit; Acar, Elif Öznur - In: Journal of Economic Studies 44 (2017) 4, pp. 617-635
empirical evidence available on mobility and informality in the Turkish labor market. Design/methodology/approach Toward this … mobility patterns in more detail, the authors then estimate six multinomial logit models individually for each transition … that mobility patterns are fairly similar across different time spans, the probability of remaining in initial state is …
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User acceptance of smart home services: an extension of the theory of planned behavior
Yang, Heetae; Lee, Hwansoo; Zo, Hangjung - In: Industrial Management & Data Systems 117 (2017) 1, pp. 68-89
model and corresponding hypotheses on data collected from 216 survey samples. Findings Mobility, security/privacy risk, and … increase potential users’ adoption rate, service providers should focus on developing mobility-related services that enable …
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The 'Names Game': Harnessing Inventors Patent Data for Economic Research
Melamed, Ran; Shiff, Gil; Trajtenberg, Manuel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
inventors across time and space, and thus study the causes and consequences of their mobility across countries, regions, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005661738