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Job Mobility in Europe, Japan and the U.S.

Borghans, Lex; Golsteyn ,Bart H.H. - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010

Evidence about job mobility outside the U.S. is scarce and difficult to compare crossnationallybecause of non-uniform data. We document job mobility patterns of collegegraduates in their first three years in the labor market, using unique uniform data covering 11European countries and Japan....

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How Does Entry Regulation Infl uence Entry intoSelf-Employment and Occupational Mobility?

Prantl, Susanne; Spitz-Oener, Alexandra Emmi - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009

We analyze how an entry regulation that imposes a mandatory educational standard affectsentry into self-employment and occupational mobility. We exploit the German reunification asa natural experiment and identify regulatory effects by comparing differences betweenregulated occupations and...

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Labor Mobility across the Formal/Informal Dividein Turkey: Evidence from Individual Level Data

Tansel, Aysıt; Kan, Elif Oznur - Exploring the Causes of Frictional Wage Dispersion - 2012

Informality has long been a salient phenomenon in developing country labor markets, thushas been addressed in several theoretical and empirical research. Turkey, given its economicand demographic dynamics, provides rich evidence for a growing, heterogeneous andmultifaceted informal labor market....

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Occupational Mobility and the Business Cycle

Moscarini, Giuseppe; Vella, Francis - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

Do workers sort more randomly across different job types when jobs are harder to find? To answer this question, we study the mobility of male workers among three-digit occupations in the matched files of the monthly Current Population Survey over the 1979-2004 period. We clean individual...

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No Education, No Good Jobs?Evidence on the Relationship betweenEducation and Labor Market Segmentation

Pagés, Carmen; Stampini, Marco - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper assesses labor market segmentation across formal and informal salaried jobs andself-employment in three Latin American and three transition countries. It looks separately atthe markets for skilled and unskilled labor, inquiring if segmentation is an exclusive feature ofthe latter....

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Overskilling, Job Insecurity and Career Mobility

McGuinness, Seamus; Wooden, Mark - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper uses longitudinal data from Australia to examine the extent to which overskilling -the extent to which work-related skills and abilities are utilized in current employment - is atransitory phenomenon...

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Performance Pay, Training and Labor Mobility

Gielen, Anne C. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Market imperfections may cause firms and workers to under-invest in specific training. Thispaper shows that profit sharing may be a suitable instrument to enhance specific traininginvestments, either by enhancing wage flexibility or by increasing the returns to training...

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The Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship and Foreign Direct Investment

Acs, Zoltán J.; Brooksbank, David J.; OGorman, Colm; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007

We explore if the Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship, applied to FDI, provides at least a partial … explanation for the greater emergence of recent knowledge-based entrepreneurship in Ireland compared with Wales. In order to … examine how FDI and entrepreneurship policy in these two regions might have influenced the levels of knowledge …

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The Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship

Acs, Zoltán J.; Audretsch, David B.; Braunerhjelm, Pontus - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2005

entrepreneurship literature is that opportunities are exogenous, the most prevalent theory of innovation in the economics literature …

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The Impact of Geographic Differences inHuman Capital on Service Firm Formation Rates

Acs, Zoltán J.; Armington, Catherine - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2004

important mechanism is the spillover of relevant knowledge... …

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