We examined the impact of employer-sponsored part-time college education on job mobility, using the case of the Tuition Assistance (TA) program of the U.S. Navy. We used two modeling approaches—a bivariate probit model of ...
Kapur, Kanika(Cornell University; School of Industrial & Labor Relations, 1998-01)
The author analyzes data from the National Medical Expenditure Survey of 1987 to measure the importance of "job lock"-the reduction in job mobility due to the non-portability of employer-provided health
insurance. Refining ...
We propose a model where imperfect matching between firms and workers on local labor markets leads to spatial agglomeration. We show that the occurrence of spatial
agglomeration depends on initial size differences in terms ...
Using the British New Earnings Survey Panel Data (NESPD) for the period 1975 to 2001 we
estimate the wage cyclicality of job stayers (those remaining within single jobs in a given company), within company job movers, and ...
Using the British New Earnings Survey Panel Data for 1975-2001, the authors estimate the wage cyclicality (the degree to which wage levels rise and fall with economic upturns and downturns) of three groups: job stayers, ...
Dascher, Kristof(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2000-05)
Typically, a small and open economy trades goods at given world prices. Here, we present a model of a very open small economy, where capital and labor are internationally mobile, too. When investing into infrastructure, ...