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Industry Restructuring and Absenteeism. A Micoreconomteric Analysis Using Matched Employer-Employee Data.

Vaage, Kjell; Grasdal, Astrid; Salvanes, Kjell G. - Econometric Society - 2004

Sickness incidence and recovery are likely to be affected not only by characteristics of individual workers, but also by the conditions under which they work. Large register data bases have been available for researchers in several countries for some years now, allowing detailed research on how...

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The Dynamics of Unemployment, Temporary and Permanent Employment in Italy

Picchio, Matteo - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali, Facoltà … - 2007

This paper evaluates whether and on the extent to which temporary jobs have been a springboard to regular jobs in Italy. Using the 2000, 2002, and 2004 waves of the Survey of Italian Households' Income and Wealth several dynamic unobserved effects probit models for the probability of having a...

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Transitions from Casual Employment in Australia

Buddelmeyer, Hielke; Wooden, Mark - Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social … - 2008

A distinctive feature of the Australian labour market is a high incidence of casual employment. Almost 27 percent of Australian employees in 2006 were classified as employed on a casual basis, an alarmingly high proportion given the strong claims often made about the harmful effects that casual...

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Industry Structure and Labour Market Flexibility in the South African Manufacturing Sector: A Time Series and Panel Data Approach

Fedderke, Johannes W.; Hill, Andrew J - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2006

Our investigation of industry structure in South African manufacturing reveals evidence of imperfect competition. We find an average mark-up of 50% for the period 1970 to 2004. Results suggest that there is no consistent trend in the mark-up over time. This paper extends the analysis of industry...

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Heterogeneity in the Production of Human Capital

Polachek, Solomon; Das, Tirthatanmoy; Thamma-Apiroam, Rewat - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We derive a tractable nonlinear earnings function which we estimate separately for each individual in the NLSY79 data. These estimates yield five important parameters for each individual: three ability measures (two representing the ability to learn and one the ability to earn), a rate of skill...

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Status, Relative Pay, and Wage Growth: Evidence from M&A

Kwon, Illoong; Meyersson Milgrom, Eva M. - Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research … - 2007

We use evidence from worker turnover following M&A events to show that workers’ choices to leave the firm depend on changes in workers’ relative standing, or status, in terms of wage and rank. Our results show that social, rather than pecuniary, preference drives these choices. We also show...

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Structural Gravity with Dummies Only

Egger, Peter; Nigai, Sergey - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

The measurement of trade costs and their effects on outcome is at the heart of a large quantitative literature in international economics. The majority of the recent significant contributions on the matter assumes that trade consists of a product of exporter-time-specific factors,...

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Playoff Uncertainty, Match Uncertainty and Attendance at Australian National Rugby League Matches

King, Nicholas; Owen, P. Dorian; Audas, Rick - Department of Economics, School of Business - 2010

This paper develops a new simulation-based measure of playoff uncertainty and investigates its contribution to modelling match attendance compared to other variants of playoff uncertainty in the existing literature. A model of match attendance that incorporates match uncertainty, playoff...

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The distribution of unemployment in Spanish regions: A spatial filtering approach with panel data

Buendía Azorín, Buendía Azorín , José Daniel; … - In: INVESTIGACIONES REGIONALES - Journal of REGIONAL RESEARCH (2013) 27, pp. 143-154

Geographical distribution of unemployment rates has been analyzed from different methodological perspectives in … theoretical and empirical studies. In recent years, researcher on regional unemployment persistence which deals with the spatial … autocorrelation in the levels and dynamics of unemployment has increased. Following this line, our study presents new evidence about …

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Unpaid Overtime in Germany: Differences between East and West

Anger, Silke - In: EconStor Open Access Articles (2005), pp. 17-27

approximating the risk of unemployment with regional unemployment rates we find partial evidence for the unemployment …

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