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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
339 Aomar Ibourk
Bénédicte Maillard
Sergio Perelman
Henri R. Sneessens
The Matching Efficiency of Regional Labour Markets: A Stochastic Production Frontier Estimation, France 1990-1995
We evaluate the determinants of matching efficiency changes through a stochastic Cobb-Douglas production frontier model extended to allow the efficiency coefficient to depend on variables meant to ...
(published as 'Aggregate Matching Efficiency: A Stochastic Production Frontier Approach, France 1990 - 1995' in: Empirica, 2004, 31 (1), 1-25)
J64 C24
338 Clive Bell
Hans Gersbach
Child Labor and the Education of a Society
We examine economic growth, inequality and education when the wellspring of growth is the formation of human capital through a combination of the quality of child-rearing and formal schooling. The ...
(published in: Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2009, 12 (2), 220-249.)
H2 I2 O1 O41
337 Felix Büchel
Matthias Pollmann-Schult
Overeducation and Skill Endowments The Role of School Achievement and Vocational Training Quality
Thurow’s job-competition model implies that overeducation is contingent upon the differing skill endowments of employees. As yet, only rudimentary evidence has been furnished to confirm this ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2004, 25 (2), 150-166)
I21 J24 J41 J62
336 Francisco Lima
Pedro T. Pereira
Careers and Wage Growth within Large Firms
The relationship between the worker’s career path and wage growth is studied using a longitudinal sample of large firms. The econometric analysis shows that promoted workers receive a positive wage ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2003, 7 (24), 812-835)
J32 J33 M12
335 René Fahr
Uwe Sunde
Disaggregate Matching Functions
This paper deals with empirical matching functions. The paper is innovative in several ways. First, unlike in most of the existing literature, matching functions are estimated not only on aggregate, ...
(revised version published as 'Occupational Job Creation: Patterns and Implications' in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2004, 56 (3), 407-436)
E24 J21 J41 J42 J62 J63
333 Wiji Arulampalam
Robin Naylor
Jeremy Smith
A Hazard Model of the Probability of Medical School Dropout in the United Kingdom
From individual-level longitudinal data for two entire cohorts of medical students in UK universities, we analyse the probability that an individual student will ‘drop out’ of medical school prior to ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A. (Statistics in Society), 2004, 167 (1), 157-178)
J24 I2 C41
331 Rainer Winkelmann
Why Do Firms Recruit Internationally? Results from the IZA International Employer Survey 2000
The paper studies the demand for foreign graduates at the firm level. Using a unique dataset on recruitment policies of firms in four European countries, the determinants of demand for ...
(published in: Schmollers Jahrbuch: Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften / Journal of Applied Social Science Studies, 2002, 122 (2), 155-178)
F22 J61 L20
329 Xiaodong Gong
Arthur van Soest
Wage Differentials and Mobility in the Urban Labor Market: A Panel Data Analysis for Mexico
We analyze wage differentials mobility between the formal and informal sector in urban Mexico, using panel data on five quarters drawn from Mexico's Urban Employment Survey. We develop a dynamic ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2002, 9 (4), 513-529)
C33, J23, J31, R23
327 Hans Gersbach
Armin Schmutzler
A Product Market Theory of Worker Training
We develop a product market theory that explains why firms invest in general training of their workers. We consider a model where firms first decide whether to invest in general human capital, then ...
(published as "Product markets and industry-specific training" in: The RAND Journal of Economics, 2012, 43 (3), 475-491)
D42 L22 L43 L92
326 John S. Earle
Álmos Telegdy
Privatization and Productivity in Romanian Industry: Evidence from a Comprehensive Enterprise Panel
We construct and analyze a unique database with 1992-99 information on privatization transactions and labor productivity for the entire surviving population of initially state-owned industrial ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2002, 30 (4), 657-682)
G32 G34 L32 L33 P20 P31
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