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351 J. David Brown
John S. Earle
Gross Job Flows in Russian Industry Before and After Reforms: Has Destruction Become More Creative?
This paper uses 1985-1999 manufacturing census data for old Russian enterprises to calculate the magnitude and productivity effects of gross job flow rates before and after reforms. Job creation was ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2002, 30 (1), 96-133)
E24 J63 O47 P23
350 John T. Addison
Pedro Portugal
Unemployment Duration: Competing and Defective Risks
This paper examines the determinants of unemployment duration in a competing risks framework with two destination states, namely, inactivity and employment. The major innovation is our recognition of ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2003, 38 (1), 156-191)
C41 J64 J65
349 John T. Addison
Pedro Portugal
Job Search Methods and Outcomes
Using Portuguese data, this paper investigates the effects of job search methods on escape rates from unemployment and of job-finding methods on earnings. The effectiveness of the job search process ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2002, 54 (3), 505-533)
J64
348 Shoshana Neuman
Adrian Ziderman
Can Vocational Education Improve the Wages of Minorities and Disadvantaged Groups? The Case of Israel
There is a considerable empirical literature which compares wage levels of workers who have studied at secondary vocational schools with wages of workers who took academic schooling. In general, ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2003, 22(4), 421-432)
I21 J15 J16 J21 J24 J31 J44 J61
347 Magnus Lofstrom
Frank D. Bean
Labor Market Conditions and Post-Reform Declines in Welfare Receipt Among Immigrants
Considerable research attention has been devoted to the question of whether and to what extent changes in welfare policy legislated in the 1990s might have deterred immigrant participation in welfare ...
(published as 'Assessing Immigrant Policy Options: Labor Market Conditions and Postreform Declines in Immigrants' Receipt of Welfare' in: Demography, 2002, 39 (4), 617-637)
H53, I30, I38, J15, J61
345 Johannes Hampe
Martin Steininger
Survival, Growth, and Interfirm Collaboration of Start-Up Companies in High-Technology Industries: A Case Study of Upper Bavaria
Our analysis of the survival of firms leads to the important result that the hypotheses about differences between various industries in the life duration of new firms and about the importance of the ...
(published in: Schätzl L./J.R. Diez (eds.), Technological Change and Regional Development in Europe, Heidelberg (2001), 90-111)
C41 J2 J60 L10 R30
344 Erik Plug
Peter Berkhout
Effects of Sexual Preferences on Earnings in the Netherlands
A small literature suggests that bisexual and homosexual workers earn less than their heterosexual fellow workers and that a discriminating labor market is partly to blame. In this paper we examine ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2004, 17 (1), 117-131, revised version available here)
J15 J16 J71
343 Holger Bonin
Will it Last? An Assessment of the 2001 German Pension Reform
In May 2001, Germany adopted a fundamental pension reform cutting back public pensions and introducing personal pension accounts. The paper critically reviews the reform decisions and evaluates their ...
(published in: Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance, 2002, 24 (4), 547-564)
F22 E66
342 Wendelin Schnedler
The Virtue of Being Underestimated: A Note on Discriminatory Contracts in Hidden Information Models
A standard hidden information model is considered to study the influence of the a priori productivity distribution on the optimal contract. A priori more productive (hazard rate dominant) agents work ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2002, 75 (2), 171-178)
D82 J71
340 Xavier Wauthy
Yves Zenou
How Does Imperfect Competition in the Labor Market Affect Unemployment Policies?
We consider a continuum of workers ranked according to their abilities to acquire education and two firms with different technologies that imperfectly compete in wages to attract these workers. Once ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2002, 4 (3), 417-436)
H20 J31 L13
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