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Interpreting Europe and US Labor Markets Differences: The Specificity of Human Capital Investments
Wasmer, Etienne - 2002
more efficient. In terms of transaction costs, the US pay on average higher search/hiring costs in the labor market, and …
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Employee Referrals and Efficiency Wages
Kugler, Adriana D. - 2002
employees. This paper develops a matching model that can explain the link between inter-industry wage differentials and use of …-workers, allowing firms to pay lower efficiency wages. On the other hand, informal search provides fewer job and applicant contacts than … formal methods (e.g., newspaper ads). In equilibrium, the matching process generates segmentation in the labor market because …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262359
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The Microeconomics of Macroeconomic Asymmetries : Sectoral Driving Forces and Firm Level Characteristics
Korenok, Oleg; Mizrach, Bruce; Radchenko, Stanislav - 2004
There is now considerable evidence that business cycle variation in output and employment in the U.S. differs in expansions and contractions. We present nonparametric evidence that asymmetries are strongest in durable goods manufacturing. In a Markov switching framework, we find two leading...
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Minimum wage effects on labor market outcomes under search with bargaining
Flinn, Christopher J. - 2003
Building upon a continuous-time model of search with Nash bargaining in a stationary environment, we analyze the effect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261648
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Experience Rating of Unemployment Insurance in the US: A Model for Europe?
Fath, Julia; Fuest, Clemens - In: CESifo DICE Report 03 (2005) 2, pp. 45-50
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Experience Rating of Unemployment Insurance in the US: A Model for Europe?
Fath, Julia; Fuest, Clemens - In: CESifo DICE Report 3 (2005) 2, pp. 45-50
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005037392
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Unemployment in the United States and in Europe : a contrast and the reasons ; the European unemployment problem
Solow, Robert - In: CESifo Forum 01 (2000) 1, pp. 3-5
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011695607
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Unemployment in the United States and in Europe : a contrast and the reasons ; the European unemployment problem
Solow, Robert - In: CESifo Forum 1 (2000) 1, pp. 3-5
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005013167
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Do Pensions Impede Phased Retirement?
Even, William E.; Macpherson, David A. - 2004
Many workers reveal a preference for a gradual reduction in work hours as they approach retirement (?phased retirement?), rather than a sudden change from full-time work to full-time retirement. Pension regulations may impede phased retirement without a switch of employers by prohibiting access...
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Rising Occupational and Industry Mobility in the United States : 1968-1993
Kambourov, Gueorgui; Manovskii, Iourii - 2004
We analyze the dynamics of worker mobility in the United States over the 1968-1993 period at various levels of occupational and industry aggregation. We find a substantial overall increase in occupational and industry mobility over the period and document the levels and time trends in mobility...
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