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This paper constructs a theory of the coexistence of fixed-term and permanent employment contracts in an environment with ex-ante identical workers and employers. Worker[...]
2011 | Text | Staff Working Paper - Document de travail du personnel |
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This paper analyzes the effects of an educational system expansion on labour market outcomes, drawing upon a 15-year natural experiment in the Russian Federation. Regiona[...]
2013 | Text | Staff Working Paper - Document de travail du personnel |
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From 1980 until 2007, U.S. average hours worked increased by thirteen percent, due to a large increase in female hours. At the same time, the U.S. labor wedge, measured a[...]
2010 | Text | Staff Working Paper - Document de travail du personnel |
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This paper analyzes the differences in wage ratios of university graduates to less than university graduates, the education premium, in Canada and the United States from [...]
2009 | Text | Staff Working Paper - Document de travail du personnel |
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Why do employed persons in large firms earn more than employed persons in small firms, even after controlling for observable characteristics? Complementary to previous re[...]
2008 | Text | Staff Working Paper - Document de travail du personnel |
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In this paper we develop a quantitative model of entrepreneurial activity (risk-taking) and consumer bankruptcy choices and use the model to study the effects of bankrupt[...]
2008 | Text | Staff Working Paper - Document de travail du personnel |
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This paper studies the choice between general and specific human capital. A trade-off arises because general human capital, while less productive, can easily be reallocat[...]
2007 | Text | Staff Working Paper - Document de travail du personnel |
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The author quantitatively studies the interaction between education and occupation choices and its implication for the relationship between the changes in earnings inequa[...]
2006 | Text | Staff Working Paper - Document de travail du personnel |
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The hypothesis of intertemporal substitution in labour supply has a history of empirical failure when confronted with aggregate time-series data. The authors show that a [...]
2005 | Text | Staff Working Paper - Document de travail du personnel |
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In a recent paper, Chang, Gomes, and Schorfheide (2002) extend the standard real business cycle (RBC) model to allow for a learning-by-doing (LBD) mechanism whereby curre[...]
2005 | Text | Staff Working Paper - Document de travail du personnel |
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