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Determinantes de la temporalidad en el mercado laboral ecuatoriano

Chávez, Yannira; Medina, Paúl - In: Revista de métodos cuantitativos para la economía y … 13 (2012), pp. 24-53

The differences that exist inside the labor Ecuadorian market, in the different branches of activity, demonstrate the training levels that the workers must have to avoid negative effects. However, in this study, the role played by individual, jobs and residence characteristics are analyzed on...

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How many jobs is 23,510, really?

Chapman, Bruce; Lounkaew, Kiatanatha - In: Australian journal of labour economics : a journal of … 16 (2013) 2, pp. 259-275

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Los determinantes de la elección de AFP en Chile : nueva evidencia a partir de datos individuales

Berstein Jáuregui, Solange; Cabrita Felix, Carolina - In: Estudios de economía 34 (2007) 1, pp. 53-72

This article is the first one to use individual data to analyze the demand for AFP in Chile. This study implements panel data techniques which allow us to estimate the switch probability of an AFP customer. Results confirm the fundamental role of sales agents, which was already suggested by...

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Promoting permanent employment : lessons from Spain

Mendez, Ildefonso - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 4 (2013) 2, pp. 175-199

contracts and the 1997 reform introduced a new permanent contract figure with lower payroll taxes and dismissal costs than the … ordinary. To evaluate these non-targeted treatments I present an estimation procedure that uses pre-treatment outcomes to … that Spanish employers took advantage of wage and dismissal cost reductions to substitute permanent contracts for otherwise …

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Disclosure of medical information in health insurance

Rahkovsky, Ilya - In: Advances in management & applied economics 3 (2013) 1, pp. 183-205

Disclosure of private medical information allows insurance companies to better predict medical expenditures. The premiums the companies charge the insured employees reflect these expenditures. This paper studies incentives of employees to disclose their medical information. I find that healthier...

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Preferences and skills of Indian public sector teachers 2u<

Fagernäs, Sonja; Pelkonen, Panu - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 1 (2012), pp. 1-31

With a sample of 700 future public sector primary teachers in India, a Discrete Choice Experiment is used to measure job preferences, particularly regarding location. General skills are also tested. Urban origin teachers and women are more averse to remote locations than rural origin teachers...

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Reforming an insider-outsider labor market : the Spanish experience

Benrolila, Samuel; Dolado, Juan J.; Jimeno, Juan F. - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 1 (2012), pp. 1-29

This paper presents a case study on reforming a very dysfunctional labor market with a deep insider-outsider divide, namely the Spanish case. We show how a dual market, with permanent and temporary employees, makes real reform much harder, and leads to purely marginal changes that do not alter...

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Intellectual capital efficiency : evidence from Bangladesh

Rahman, Sheehan; Ahmend, Jashim Uddin - In: Advances in management & applied economics 2 (2012) 2, pp. 109-146

The study investigates associations, first, between a firm's intellectual capital and market value, and second, between a firm's intellectual capital and financial performance in the context of Bangladeshi companies selected from three different industries - banking, textiles, and...

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Bank loans, ownership structure and efficiency of listed manufacturing firms in Nigeria

Obembe, Olufemi B.; Adebisi, S. A.; Adesina, J. A. - In: Advances in management & applied economics 1 (2011) 2, pp. 221-236

Bank loans through bank-firm relationship is expected to enhance the performance of firms owing to the possession of private information on the firms that is not readily available to other outside investors. This special relationship is deemed to be very important than equity financing in...

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Gemeinschaftliche Arbeitsorganisation im Arbeitgeberzusammenschluss

Osthoff, Katharina; Langbein, Martin - In: Arbeit : Zeitschrift für Arbeitsforschung, … 22 (2013) 2, pp. 150-154

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