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Implicit Contracts, Unemployment, and Labor Market Segmentation [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010 We analyze the impact of imperfect contract enforcement on the emergence of unemployment. In an experimental labor market where trading parties can form long-term employment relationships, we compare a work environment where effort is observable, but not verifiable to a situation where explicit contracts are feasible.
Altmann, Steffen +2 more
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Insurance and Labor Market Contracting: An Analysis of the Capital Market Assumption [PDF]
Journal of Labor Economics, 1986 In recent years a large literature has developed that investigates the role of insurance in labor market contracting. Papers in this literature typically assume that workers are completely restricted from borrowing. We argue, and to some extent demonstrate, that in many environments capital market imperfections do not lead to a noborrowing result but ...
Haltiwanger, John, Waldman, Michael
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The impact of temporary contracts on suicide rates.
PLoS ONE, 2021 The number of suicides has increased in the last decades in several developed countries. For instance, Spain has experienced a gradual but steady increase in suicides since the 80's and it is currently the leading external cause of death in the country ...
Ricard Grèbol Jiménez +1 more
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Labor Contracts and Flexibility: Evidence from a Labor Market Reform in Spain [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 1999 This paper evaluates the effects of a labor market reform in Spain that removed restrictions on fixed‐term or temporary contracts. Our empirical results are based on longitudinal firm‐level data that cover observations before and after the reform. We posit and estimate a dynamic labor demand model with indefinite and fixed‐term labor contracts, and a ...
Victor Aguirregabiria +1 more
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A Real Options Analysis of Dual Labor Markets and the Single Labor Contract [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011 We study the hiring and firing decisions of a firm in a Dual Labor market and in a Single Labor Contract. Under both regulations, to fire before a certain seniority threshold is similar to an American option that gives the right of firing at low costs. However, the value of the option is different in each regulation.
Gete, Pedro, Porchia, Paolo
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Positive and negative implications entailed by fixed-term employment contracts [PDF]
Contabilitate şi Informatică de Gestiune, 2018 Generally, fixed-term employment contracts are seen as a stepping stone to permanent employment; they have become popular among the flexible forms of work contracts, and are the object of an increasing number of debates and assessments, investigating ...
Mihaela-Emilia Marica
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Defining the Unemployment Determinants of the Post-Transition Central European EU Member Countries [PDF]
Managing Global Transitions, 2019 Aim of the research is to define unemployment determinants of the labor markets on the example of post-transition Central European eu member countries – Poland, Czech, Slovak, Hungary, Slovenia, and Croatia.
Marija Buselic, Jurica Bosna
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Labor Market Institutions, Mobility, and Dualization in the Nordic Countries
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2013 Comparing the Nordic countries, this article examines different combinations of permanent and temporary employment protection legislation, and whether such differences are reflected in patterns of labor market transitions.
Jørgen Svalund
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Body shape and stable employment opportunity analysis of China's nonagricultural labor market
SSM: Population Health, 2022 Based on the integrated data of the China General Social Survey (CGSS) from 2010 to 2017, this study observes that body shape – being overweight or underweight – is important for labor market outcomes.
Ping Li +3 more
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Labor market reforms in Europe: towards more flexicure labor markets?
Journal for Labour Market Research, 2017 Labor market segmentation refers to a salient divide between secure and insecure jobs and is related to problems in important areas, including macro-economic efficiency, workers’ well-being and repercussions for social cohesion.
Werner Eichhorst +2 more
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