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No.
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Author(s)
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Title
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JEL Class.
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691
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Barbara
Petrongolo
Christopher
A.
Pissarides
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Scale Effects in Markets with Search
Reduced-form tests of scale effects in markets with search, run when aggregate matching
functions are estimated, may miss important scale effects at the micro level, because of the
reactions of job ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2006, 116 (508), 21-44)
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J31, J64, D83
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689
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Almas
Heshmati
Ilham
Haouas
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The Effects of Union Wage-Settings on Firms’ Production Factor Decisions
This study is concerned with the development of a theoretical model and its empirical application to the estimation of the interaction between firms and trade union in determining
wages and ...
(published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2004, 11 (7), 415-420)
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C33, D21, E24, J50, L60
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688
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Ilham
Haouas
Mahmoud
Yagoubi
Almas
Heshmati
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The Impacts of Trade Liberalization on Employment and Wages in Tunisian Industries
This paper investigates short and long-run effects of trade liberalization on employment and wages. Employment and wage equations are estimated using data (1971–96) for importable
and exportable ...
(published in: Journal of International Development, 2005, 17 (4), 527-551)
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C23, E24, J23, J31, F10, L60
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687
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Ilham
Haouas
Mahmoud
Yagoubi
Almas
Heshmati
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Labour-Use Efficiency in Tunisian Manufacturing Industries
This paper investigates the process of adjustment in employment. A dynamic model is applied to a panel of six Tunisian manufacturing industries observed over the period 1971–96. The adjustment ...
(published in: Review of Middle East Economics and Finance, 2003, 1 (3), 195-214)
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C23, E24, J23, L60
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686
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Adriaan
Kalwij
Rob
Alessie
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Permanent and Transitory Wage Inequality of British Men, 1975-2001: Year, Age and Cohort Effects
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 ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2007, 22 (6), 1063 - 1093)
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C23, D31, J31, J60
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685
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Lex
Borghans
Bas
ter Weel
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Do We Need Computer Skills to Use a Computer? Evidence from Britain
Using data from the 1997 Skills Survey of the Employed British Workforce, we examine the
returns to computer skills in Britain. Many researchers, using information on computer use,
have concluded ...
(published in: Labour, 2006, 20 (3), 505-532)
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J31, O30
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684
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Patrick
A.
Puhani
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The Rise and Fall of Swiss Unemployment: Relative Demand Shocks, Wage Rigidities, and Temporary Immigrants
Switzerland, traditionally a ‘zero unemployment’ economy, has seen an unprecedented rise
in joblessness in the 1990s although unemployment fell again to a rather low level after 1997.
This paper ...
(published as 'Relative Demand Shocks and Relative Wage Rigidities During the Rise and Fall of Swiss Unemployment' in: Kyklos, 2003, 56 (4),541-562)
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E24, J21, J31, J64
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683
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Eric
Strobl
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Is Education Used as a Signaling Device for Productivity in Developing Countries? Evidence from Ghana
This paper investigates whether education is used as a signaling device for worker
productivity in developing countries. To do such we employ a simple test of employer
learning on Ghana ...
(published as "Do employers use education as a signal for ability in developing countries? Evidence from Ghana" in: Applied Economics Letters, 2004, 11(4), 259-261)
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O12, J30
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682
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Bart
Cockx
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Vocational Training of Unemployed Workers in Belgium
In this paper we estimate, for the 1989-93 period in Belgium, the effect of vocational
classroom training on the rate of transition from unemployment. We propose a “control
function” estimator ...
(published in: Applied Economics Quarterly, 2003, 49 (1), 23-48)
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C41, J24, J64, J68
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681
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Marcus
Hagedorn
Ashok
Kaul
Tim
Mennel
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An Adverse Selection Model of Optimal Unemployment Insurance
We derive the shape of optimal unemployment insurance (UI) contracts when agents can
exert search effort but face different search costs and have private information about their
type. We derive a ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2010, 34 (3), 490-502 )
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C61, D82, E61, J64, J65
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