Results 31 to 40 of about 650,972 (326)

Labor Market Duality and the Impact of Prolonged Recession on Employment in Croatia

Croatian Economic Survey, 2015
The term labor market duality can be used to describe different forms of labor market segmentation. Nevertheless, this term is most often used to describe the segregation between permanent employees and workers employed on a temporary basis.
Mislav Brkić
doaj   +1 more source

Discrimination and Racial Disparities in Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from WWII

Social Science Research Network, 2020
The 1940s witnessed substantial reductions in the Black-white earnings gap. We study the role that domestic WWII defense production played in reducing this gap. Exploiting variation across labor markets in the allocation of war contracts to private firms,
Anna Aizer, Ryan Boone, A. Lleras-Muney, Jonathan Vogel   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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
openaire   +1 more source

Internal university labor market: problem, inevitability or expediency?

Ekonomika Nauki, 2023
There are 2 strategic vectors of human resource management: an open or closed model. The reasons for the development or rooting of a closed model (the internal labor market) we explain by two groups of basic conditions (factors): the specifics of the ...
S. V. Orekhova, O. M. Nikitina
doaj   +1 more source

Labor Market Mobility and Expectation Management: Evidence from Enforceability of Noncompete Provisions*

Contemporary Accounting Research, 2020
This study examines how managers’ use of expectation management is affected by labor market mobility, measured with the enforceability of non-compete provisions in employment contracts.
Michael (Minye) Tang, Rencheng Wang, Yi Zhou   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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
openaire   +4 more sources

Labor Market Screening and Social Insurance Program Design for the Disabled

Social Science Research Network, 2020
We evaluate social insurance program designs for the disabled by empirically implementing a frictional labor market model with screening employment contracts. In the model, firms post a screening contract consisting of wage and job amenities, and workers
Naoki Aizawa, Soojin Kim, Serena Rhee
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Labor market dynamics under long-term wage contracting [PDF]

Journal of Monetary Economics, 2009
Abstract Recent research seeking to explain the strong cyclicality of US unemployment emphasizes the role of wage rigidity. This paper proposes a micro-founded model of wage rigidity—an equilibrium business cycle model of job search, where risk neutral firms post optimal long-term contracts to attract risk averse workers.
openaire   +2 more sources

The Impossibility of a Perfectly Competitive Labor Market [PDF]

, 2006
Using the institutional theory of transaction cost, I demonstrate that the assumptions of the competitive labor market model are internally contradictory and lead to the conclusion that on purely theoretical grounds a perfectly competitive labor market ...
______, ______, ______, ______, ______, ______, ______, ______, ______, ______, Alan , Armen Alchian, Belton Fleisher, Bruce E. Evan Kaufman, Bruce Kaufman, Charles Craypo, Clark Kerr, D Allen, Daniel Hamermesh, Daniel J B Mitchell, David Card, Douglas Vickers, Ed Arestis, Ed Medema, Edward Lazear, Erik Furubotn, Ernst Fehr, Frank Knight, Gary Becker, Gary Miller, Geoffrey Hodgson, George Akerlof, George Boyer, George Stigler, Gregory Dow, Harold Demsetz, Herbert Simon, James Malcomson, Joan Robinson, John Budd, John Commons, John Dunlop, Joyce Jacobsen, Lester Thurow, Lloyd Reynolds, Melvin Reder, Oliver Williamson, Philip Arestis, Pierre Cahuc, Richard Lester, Richard Perlman, Robert Gibbons, Robert Solow, Ronald Coase, Sherwin Rosen, Stephen Machin, Steven Cheung, Sumner Slichter, Thomas Kniesner, Truman Bewley, Wallis, Wolfgang Streeck   +61 more
core   +1 more source

Asymmetric Information in the Labor Market, Immigrants and Contract Menu [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011
Immigrant workers and their labor force participation in host countries have received critical attention in all concerned disciplines, principally owing to its strong implications for well-being of natives. The ageing population in many rich countries and several related and unrelated issues including global integration, pension provisions or security ...
Kar, Saibal, Saha, Bibhas Chandra
openaire   +3 more sources