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Besich, John. "Job embeddedness versus traditional models of voluntary turnover: A test of voluntary turnover prediction." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2005. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4977/.

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Voluntary turnover has historically been a problem for today's organizations. Traditional models of turnover continue to be utilized in a number of ways in both academia and industry. A newer model of turnover, job embeddedness, has recently been developed in an attempt to better predict voluntary turnover than existing models. Job embeddedness consists of organizational fit, organizational sacrifice, and organizational links. The purpose of this study is to two fold. First, psychometric analyses were conducted on the job embeddedness model. Exploratory factor analyses were conducted on the dimensions of job embeddedness, which revealed a combined model consisting of five factors. This structure was then analyzed using confirmatory factor analysis, assessing a 1, 3, and 5 factor model structure. The confirmatory factor analysis established the use of the 5 factor model structure in subsequent analysis in this study. The second purpose of this study is to compare the predictive power of the job embeddedness model versus that of the traditional models of turnover. The traditional model of turnover is comprised of job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and perceived job alternatives. In order to compare the predictive power of the job embeddedness and traditional model of voluntary turnover, a series of structural equation model analyses were conducting using LISREL. The job embeddedness model, alone, was found to be the best fit with the sample data. This fit was improved over the other two models tested (traditional model and the combination of the traditional and job embeddedness model). In addition to assessing which model better predicts voluntary turnover, it was tested which age group and gender is a better fit with the job embeddedness model. It was found that the job embeddedness model better predicts turnover intention for older respondents and males.
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Guedes, Maria do Carmo Vaz de Miranda. "Mathematical models in capital investment appraisal." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1988. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/107492/.

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Kiess-Moser, Paul Michael. "Labor union objectives under a multi-contract period time horizon." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/26854.

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Most microeconomic models of Labor unions take the union's membership size as exogenous, and limit union members' time horizons to a single contract period. Particularly for unions allocating employment by means of a seniority system, and for unions facing stochastic demand for labor conditions, these limitations in current union models lead to unsatisfactory predictions of union behavior. In this thesis, an n-period majority voting model of a monopoly union facing a fixed demand for labor schedule and allocating employment by seniority is developed to show the interdependence between the union's present wage choice, the size of the union's future voter pool and its future wage choices. Union members are assumed to predict the union's future voting behavior, and to account for the consequences of the retirement of senior union members. The optimal contract wage is shown analytically to be not lower than that wage which causes the layoff of twice the number of retiring workers per contract period in each contract period, and not to exceed the wage level at which half of the union's present voter pool would lose its union employment. Computer simulation solutions for various demand conditions suggest that after a potential sharp first-period increase in the contract wage, the union's contract wage path follows its analytically derived lower limit - with each contract, union employment declines by twice the number of retirees per contract period. The time path of union employment is shown to be largely independent of anticipated changes in demand for labor. A similar two-period model is developed for stochastic demand for labor conditions. For some cases, the union's wage choice can be shown to be lower when the consequences of this period's wage choice on next period's voter pool are taken into account. Majority voting instability problems cannot be ruled out for this type of model, and are interpreted as a potential cause for a union-internal political process. These seniority-based models are then compared with models where union employment is allocated by a random draw among union members. With nonstochastic demand for labor, this allows for the analysis of discrete changes in union rules, and yields the principal prediction that the union will eventually replace an employment by random draw rule with employment according to seniority. The economic approach to the analysis of union behavior is assessed critically, and put in some perspective by an informal discussion of other union-internal determinants of union behavior. In conclusion, it is suggested that the formal prediction of an ongoing gradual decline in union employment may be usefully amended by considering potential benefits from union size maintenance and union membership rejuvenation.
Arts, Faculty of
Vancouver School of Economics
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Summers, Deborah A. "Use of optimization models to solve labor planning and scheduling problems for the service industry." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/24107.

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Kamat, Kuldip U. "Minimizing total tardiness and crew size in labor intensive cells using mathematical models." Ohio : Ohio University, 2007. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1181108441.

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Beach, Robert R. "Essays in social security: net of benefits tax rates, labor supply, savings and welfare." Diss., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/54489.

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In the standard case in which the interest rate is assumed to be greater than the rate of population growth, implementation of a social security program leads to a reduction in capital formation and a loss of welfare of the representative individual. This dissertation asks whether the parameters of a stylized social security program can be manipulated to reduce this welfare loss. By attaching weights to the earnings used in computing the average monthly earnings, an instrument is created which the social security administrator can use to manipulate the net marginal tax rates and the relative cost of leisure between years. If, as a result, aggregate savings increase, then steady-state welfare may also increase. The effect of changing the weights in the benefit formula is considered first in a simple three-period partial equilibrium model. Individuals work for two periods and are retired in the third. It is shown, under assumptions of separability, that first-period labor supply must go up and second-period labor supply must go down in response to an increase in the earnings weight attached to the first period. Furthermore, although there is an element of ambiguity, a strong case can be made that aggregate savings must increase. It is also shown that, contrary to intuition, a zero net tax is not neutral and in fact must lead to a reduction in capital formation and welfare. These same issues are then considered in a many-period model in which interest rates and wage rates are allowed to respond to changes in aggregate savings. It is found that alternatives to the current program that provide more weight to earnings of younger workers can reduce the welfare loss by a small amount. Because of the intractability of the many-periods case a computer simulation is used to perform the analysis. In addition, the adjustment costs of a public savings program are considered. (Feldstein, among others, has suggested that social security be used as a vehicle for a public savings program to increase private investment in the economy.) It is shown that while such a program would adversely affect that welfare of a number of generations, these welfare losses are quite small: less than 0.05% for all the cases considered.
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Macias, Miguel S. "The returns to human capital migration within the Department of Defense civilian internal labor market." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2005. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion/05Sep%5FMacias.pdf.

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Chan, Cheuk-ho, and 陳卓豪. "Decomposed network and heuristic approach for rail transport crew scheduling system." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1997. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B4257464X.

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Jitsuchon, Somchai. "Three applications of market incompleteness and market imperfection." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape7/PQDD_0026/NQ38906.pdf.

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Cristini, Annalisa. "OECD activity and commodity prices." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.670315.

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Law, Gordon Ki-Wai. "Decision support system for construction cycle design." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/26715.

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The objective of this thesis is to develop a conceptual design of a computerized environment for detailed design of construction activities associated with projects characterized by significant repetition. High-rise building construction is used as the example of repetitive construction projects. The construction cycle design of a typical floor structure is studied to gain an understanding of the difficulty and complexity involved in the activity design process. Modeling techniques currently used in construction planning, modeling techniques developed in the field of operations research, and assembly line balancing techniques used in industrial engineering are reviewed to determine their applicability for detailed construction cycle design. Using the concept of decision support systems developed in the fields of management science and knowledge engineering for solving ill-structured and ill-defined problems, a conceptual design of a decision support system for construction cycle design is developed.
Applied Science, Faculty of
Civil Engineering, Department of
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Janiak, Alexandre. "Essais sur la mobilité géographique, sectorielle et intra-sectorielle en périodes de changement structurel : le rôle du capital humain, du capital social et de l'ouverture aux échanges." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/210600.

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Résumé de la thèse d’Alexandre Janiak intitulée « Essais sur la mobilité géographique, sectorielle et intra-sectorielle en périodes de changement structurel »

Le changement structurel est un processus nécessaire qui améliore considérablement les conditions de vie dans nos sociétés. Il peut découler par exemple de l'introduction de nouvelles avancées technologiques qui permettent d'augmenter à long terme la productivité agrégée dans nos économies. En retour, la hausse de la productivité a un impact sur notre consommation de tous les jours. Elle nous permet notamment de vivre dans un plus grand confort. Les individus peuvent alors s'épanouir dans leur ensemble. Il est évident que le changement structurel peut prendre d'autres formes que celle du changement technologique, mais il est souvent issu d'une transformation des forces qui influencent les marchés et en général aboutit à long terme à une amélioration du bien-être global.

Mais le changement structurel est aussi un processus douloureux. Il peut durer plusieurs décennies et, durant cette période, nous sommes beaucoup à devoir en supporter les coûts. Comme nous allons l'illustrer dans ce chapitre introductif, le changement structurel a pour conséquence une modification du rapport aux facteurs de production, ce qui alors mène à modifier l'ensemble des prix relatifs qui caractérisent une économie. En particulier, la modification des prix est due à une transformation des demandes relatives de facteurs. Ces derniers se révèlent alors inutiles à l'exécution de certaines tâches ou sont fortement demandés dans d'autres points de l'économie.

Souvent, le changement structurel entraîne alors un processus de réallocation. Des pans entiers de travailleurs doivent par conséquent se réallouer à d'autres tâches. Les lois du marché les incitent ainsi à devoir s'adapter à un nouveau contexte, mais elles le font pour un futur meilleur.

Cette thèse s'intéresse à cette problématique. Elle suppose que tout processus de changement structurel implique un mouvement de réallocation des facteurs de production, notamment des travailleurs puisqu'il s'agit d'une thèse en économie du travail, mais qu'un tel processus engendre souvent des coûts non négligeables. Elle se veut surtout positive, mais la nature des questions qu'elle pose mène naturellement à un débat normatif. Par exemple, elle cherche des réponses aux interrogations suivantes: comment s'ajuste une économie au changement structurel? Quelle est la nature des coûts associés au changement? Ces coûts peuvent-ils en excéder les gains? Le processus de réallocation en vaut-il vraiment la peine? Les gains issus d'un tel processus sont-ils distribués de manière égale?

La thèse est composée de quatre chapitres qui chacun considère l’impact d’un changement structurel particulier.

Le premier chapitre s’intéresse à l’impact de l’ouverture internationale aux échanges sur le niveau de l’emploi. Il s’appuie sur des travaux récents en économie internationale qui ont montré que la libéralisation du commerce mène à l’expansion des firmes les plus productives et à la destruction des entreprises dont la productivité est moins élevée. La raison de cette dichotomie est la présence d’un coût à l’entrée sur le marché des exports qui a été documentée par de nombreuses études. Certaines entreprises se développent suite à la libéralisation car elles ont accès à de nouveaux marchés et d’autres meurent car elles ne peuvent pas faire face aux entreprises les plus productives. Puisque le commerce crée à la fois des emplois et en détruit d’autres, ce chapitre a pour but de déterminer l’effet net de ce processus de réallocation sur le niveau agrégé de l’emploi.

Dans cette perspective, il présente un modèle avec firmes hétérogènes où pour exporter une entreprise doit payer un coût fixe, ce qui implique que seules les entreprises les plus productives peuvent entrer sur le marché international. Le modèle génère le processus de réallocation que l’ouverture au commerce international suppose. En effet, comme les entreprises les plus productives veulent exporter, elles vont donc embaucher plus de travailleurs, mais comme elles sont également capables de fixer des prix moins élevés et que les biens sont substituables, les entreprises les moins productives vont donc faire faillite. L’effet net sur l’emploi est négatif car les exportateurs ont à la marge moins d’incitants à embaucher des travailleurs du au comportement de concurrence monopolistique.

Le chapitre analyse également d’un point de vue empirique l’effet d’une ouverture au commerce au niveau sectoriel sur les flux d’emplois. Les résultats empiriques confirment ceux du modèle, c’est-à-dire qu’une hausse de l’ouverture au commerce génère plus de destructions que de créations d’emplois au niveau d’un secteur.

Le second chapitre considère un modèle similaire à celui du premier chapitre, mais se focalise plutôt sur l’effet du commerce en termes de bien-être. Il montre notamment que l’impact dépend en fait de la courbe de demande de travail agrégée. Si la courbe est croissante, l’effet est positif, alors qu’il est négatif si elle est décroissante.

Le troisième chapitre essaie de comprendre quels sont les déterminants de la mobilité géographique. Le but est notamment d’étudier le niveau du chômage en Europe. En effet, la littérature a souvent affirmé que la faible mobilité géographique du travail est un facteur de chômage lorsque les travailleurs sans emploi préfèrent rester dans leur région d’origine plutôt que d’aller prospecter dans les régions les plus dynamiques. Il semble donc rationnel pour ces individus de créer des liens sociaux locaux si ils anticipent qu’ils ne déménageront pas vers une autre région. De même, une fois le capital social local accumulé, les incitants à la mobilité sont réduits.

Le troisième chapitre illustre donc un modèle caractérisé par diverses complémentarités qui mènent à des équilibres multiples (un équilibre avec beaucoup de capital social local, peu de mobilité et un chômage élevé et un autre avec des caractéristiques opposées). Le modèle montre également que le capital social local est systématiquement négatif pour la mobilité et peut être négatif pour l’emploi, mais d’autres types de capital social peuvent en fait faire augmenter le niveau de l’emploi.

Dans ce troisième chapitre, une illustration empirique qui se base sur plusieurs mesures montre que le capital social est un facteur dominant d’immobilité. C’est aussi un facteur de chômage lorsque le capital social est clairement local, alors que d’autres types de capital social s’avèrent avoir un effet positif sur le taux d’emploi. Cette partie empirique illustre également la causalité inverse où des individus qui vivent dans une région qui ne correspond pas à leur région de naissance accumulent moins de capital social local, ce qui donne de la crédibilité à une théorie d’équilibres multiples.

Finalement, en observant que les individus dans le Sud de l’Europe semblent accumuler plus de capital social local, alors que dans le Nord de l’Europe on tend à investir dans des types plus généraux de capital social, nous suggérons qu’une partie du problème de chômage en Europe peut mieux se comprendre grâce au concept de capital social local.

Enfin, le quatrième chapitre s’intéresse à l’effet de la croissance économique sur la qualité des emplois. En particulier, il analyse le fait qu’un individu puisse avoir un emploi qui corresponde ou non à ses qualifications, ce qui, dans le contexte de ce chapitre, détermine s’il s’agit de bons ou mauvais emplois.

Ce chapitre se base sur deux mécanismes qui ont été largement abordés par la littérature. Le premier est le concept de « destruction créatrice » qui dit que la croissance détruit de nouveaux emplois car elle les rend obsolètes. Le second est le processus de « capitalisation » qui nous dit que la croissance va créer de nombreux emplois car les entreprises anticipent des profits plus élevés dans le futur.

Alors que des études récentes, suggèrent que la destruction créatrice ne permet pas d’expliquer le lien entre croissance et chômage, ce chapitre montre qu’un tel concept permet de mieux comprendre la relation entre croissance et qualité des emplois.

Avec des données issues du panel européen, nous illustrons que la corrélation entre croissance et qualité des emplois est positive. Nous présentons une série de trois modèles qui diffèrent de la manière suivante :(i) le fait de pouvoir chercher un emploi ou non alors qu’on en a déjà un, (ii) le fait pour une entreprise de pouvoir acquérir des équipements modernes. Les résultats suggèrent que pour expliquer l’effet de la croissance sur la qualité des emplois, la meilleure stratégie est une combinaison entre les effets dits de destruction créatrice et de capitalisation. Alors que le premier effet influence le taux de destruction des mauvais emplois, le second a un impact sur la mobilité du travail des mauvais vers les bons emplois.


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Hites, Gisèle. "Essays on the dynamics of cross-country income distribution and intra-household time allocation." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/210601.

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This thesis contributes to two completely unrelated debates in the economic literature, similar only in the relatively high degree of controversy characterizing each one.

The first part is methodological and macroeconomic in nature, addressing the question of whether the distribution of income across countries is converging (i.e. are the poor catching up to the rich?) or diverging (i.e. are we witnessing the formation of two exclusive clubs, one for poor countries and another one for rich countries?). Applications of the simple Markov model to this question have generated evidence in favor of the divergence hypothesis. In the first chapter, I critically review these results. I use statistical inference to show that the divergence results are not statistically robust, and I explain that this instability of the results comes from the application of a model for discrete data to data that is actually continuous. In the second chapter, I reposition the whole convergence-divergence debate by placing it in the context of Silverman’s classic survey of non-parametric density estimation techniques. This allows me to use the basic notions of fuzzy logic to adapt the simple Markov chain model to continuous data. When I apply the newly adapted Markov chain model to the cross-country distribution question, I find evidence against the divergence hypothesis, and this evidence is statistically robust.

The second part of the thesis is empirical and microeconomic in nature. I question whether observed differences between husbands’ and wives’ participation in labor markets are due to different preferences or to different constraints. My identification strategy is based on the idea that the more power an individual has relative to his/her partner, the more his/her actions will reflect his/her preferences. I use 2001 PSID data on cohabiting couples to estimate a simultaneous equations model of the spousal time allocation decision. My results confirm the stylized fact that specialization and trade does not explain time allocation for couples in which the wife is the primary breadwinner, and suggest that power could provide a more general explanation of the observations. My results show that wives with relatively more power choose to work more on the labor market and less at home, whereas husbands with more power choose to do the opposite. Since women start out from a lower level of labor market participation than men do, it would seem that spouses’ agree that the ideal mix of market work and housework lies somewhere between the husbands’ and the wives’ current positions.
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Takaidza, Isaac. "Modelling the optimal efficiency of industrial labour force in the presence of HIV/AIDs pandemic." Thesis, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11838/1305.

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Thesis (DTech (Mechanical Engineering))--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2012
In this thesis, we investigate certain key aspects of mathematical modelling to explain the epidemiology of HIV/AIDS at the workplace and to assess the potential benefits of proposed control strategies. Deterministic models to investigate the effects of the transmission dynamics of HIV/AIDS on labour force productivity are formulated. The population is divided into mutually exclusive but exhaustive compartments and a system of differential equations is derived to describe the spread of the epidemic. The qualitative features of their equilibria are analyzed and conditions under which they are stable are provided. Sensitivity analysis of the reproductive number is carried out to determine the relative importance of model parameters to initial disease transmission. Results suggest that optimal control theory in conjunction with standard numerical procedures and cost effective analysis can be used to determine the best intervention strategies to curtail the burden HIV/AIDS is imposing on the human population, in particular to the global economy through infection of the most productive individuals. We utilise Pontryagin’s Maximum Principle to derive and then analyze numerically the conditions for optimal control of the disease with effective use of condoms, enlightenment/educational programs, treatment regime and screening of infectives. We study the potential impact on productivity of combinations of these conventional control measures against HIV. Our numerical results suggest that increased access to antiretroviral therapy (ART) could decrease not only the HIV prevalence but also increase productivity of the infected especially when coupled with prevention, enlightenment and screening efforts.
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Cicconi, Claudia. "Essays on macroeconometrics and short-term forecasting." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/209660.

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The thesis, entitled "Essays on macroeconometrics and short-term forecasting",

is composed of three chapters. The first two chapters are on nowcasting,

a topic that has received an increasing attention both among practitioners and

the academics especially in conjunction and in the aftermath of the 2008-2009

economic crisis. At the heart of the two chapters is the idea of exploiting the

information from data published at a higher frequency for obtaining early estimates

of the macroeconomic variable of interest. The models used to compute

the nowcasts are dynamic models conceived for handling in an efficient way

the characteristics of the data used in a real-time context, like the fact that due to the different frequencies and the non-synchronicity of the releases

the time series have in general missing data at the end of the sample. While

the first chapter uses a small model like a VAR for nowcasting Italian GDP,

the second one makes use of a dynamic factor model, more suitable to handle

medium-large data sets, for providing early estimates of the employment in

the euro area. The third chapter develops a topic only marginally touched

by the second chapter, i.e. the estimation of dynamic factor models on data characterized by block-structures.

The firrst chapter assesses the accuracy of the Italian GDP nowcasts based

on a small information set consisting of GDP itself, the industrial production

index and the Economic Sentiment Indicator. The task is carried out by using

real-time vintages of data in an out-of-sample exercise over rolling windows

of data. Beside using real-time data, the real-time setting of the exercise is

also guaranteed by updating the nowcasts according to the historical release calendar. The model used to compute the nowcasts is a mixed-frequency Vector

Autoregressive (VAR) model, cast in state-space form and estimated by

maximum likelihood. The results show that the model can provide quite accurate

early estimates of the Italian GDP growth rates not only with respect

to a naive benchmark but also with respect to a bridge model based on the

same information set and a mixed-frequency VAR with only GDP and the industrial production index.

The chapter also analyzes with some attention the role of the Economic Sentiment

Indicator, and of soft information in general. The comparison of our

mixed-frequency VAR with one with only GDP and the industrial production

index clearly shows that using soft information helps obtaining more accurate

early estimates. Evidence is also found that the advantage from using soft

information goes beyond its timeliness.

In the second chapter we focus on nowcasting the quarterly national account

employment of the euro area making use of both country-specific and

area wide information. The relevance of anticipating Eurostat estimates of

employment rests on the fact that, despite it represents an important macroeconomic

variable, euro area employment is measured at a relatively low frequency

(quarterly) and published with a considerable delay (approximately

two months and a half). Obtaining an early estimate of this variable is possible

thanks to the fact that several Member States publish employment data and

employment-related statistics in advance with respect to the Eurostat release

of the euro area employment. Data availability represents, nevertheless, a

major limit as country-level time series are in general non homogeneous, have

different starting periods and, in some cases, are very short. We construct a

data set of monthly and quarterly time series consisting of both aggregate and

country-level data on Quarterly National Account employment, employment

expectations from business surveys and Labour Force Survey employment and

unemployment. In order to perform a real time out-of-sample exercise simulating

the (pseudo) real-time availability of the data, we construct an artificial

calendar of data releases based on the effective calendar observed during the first quarter of 2012. The model used to compute the nowcasts is a dynamic

factor model allowing for mixed-frequency data, missing data at the beginning

of the sample and ragged edges typical of non synchronous data releases. Our

results show that using country-specific information as soon as it is available

allows to obtain reasonably accurate estimates of the employment of the euro

area about fifteen days before the end of the quarter.

We also look at the nowcasts of employment of the four largest Member

States. We find that (with the exception of France) augmenting the dynamic

factor model with country-specific factors provides better results than those

obtained with the model without country-specific factors.

The third chapter of the thesis deals with dynamic factor models on data

characterized by local cross-correlation due to the presence of block-structures.

The latter is modeled by introducing block-specific factors, i.e. factors that

are specific to blocks of time series. We propose an algorithm to estimate the model by (quasi) maximum likelihood and use it to run Monte Carlo

simulations to evaluate the effects of modeling or not the block-structure on

the estimates of common factors. We find two main results: first, that in finite samples modeling the block-structure, beside being interesting per se, can help

reducing the model miss-specification and getting more accurate estimates

of the common factors; second, that imposing a wrong block-structure or

imposing a block-structure when it is not present does not have negative

effects on the estimates of the common factors. These two results allow us

to conclude that it is always recommendable to model the block-structure

especially if the characteristics of the data suggest that there is one.
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Velamuri, Malathi Rao. "Health insurance, employment-sector choices and job attachment patterns of men and women." Thesis, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/1450.

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"The Hong Kong labor market: an unemployment-vacany analysis." 1999. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5890090.

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by Chan, Yuk Fai Weslie.
Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1999.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 67-70).
Abstracts in English and Chinese.
Acknowledgments --- p.ii
English Abstract --- p.iv
Chinese Abstract --- p.v
Table of Contents --- p.vi
List of Tables --- p.viii
List of Figures --- p.ix
List of Appendices --- p.x
Chapter Chapter 1. --- Introduction --- p.1
Chapter Chapter 2. --- Theoretical Background --- p.6
Chapter 2.1 --- Concepts of Beveridge Curve --- p.7
Chapter 2.2 --- Beveridge Curve Derived from Labori Market Stock-Flow Identities --- p.15
Chapter 2.2.1 --- Some Basic Labor Market Stork-Flow Identities --- p.15
Chapter 2.2.2 --- Steady State Properties of Beveridge Curve --- p.19
Chapter 2.2.3 --- Comparative Static Analysis of Beveridge Curve --- p.20
Chapter 2.2.4 --- Short Run Dynamics along Beveridge Curve --- p.24
Chapter 2.3 --- Beveridge Curve Derived from Matching Function Approach --- p.25
Chapter Chapter 3. --- Empirical Evidences --- p.28
Chapter 3.1 --- Decomposition of Total Unemployment of Hong Kong --- p.28
Chapter 3.2 --- Beveridge Curve of Hong Kong --- p.31
Chapter 3.2.1 --- Time Series Estimation of Hong Kong's Beveridge Curve --- p.32
Chapter 3.2.2 --- Cross Sectorial Estimation of Hong Kong's Beveridge Curve --- p.33
Chapter 3.3 --- Natural Unemployment Rate --- p.34
Chapter 3.4 --- Unemployment-Vacancy Ratio --- p.36
Chapter 3.4.1 --- Relation between U-V Ratio and K-L ratio --- p.38
Chapter Chapter 4. --- Conclusion --- p.41
Tables --- p.42
Figures --- p.46
Appendices --- p.56
Bibliography --- p.64
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Bastos, Luisa Ferreira. "Mathematical models for educational simulation of uterine contractions during labor." Master's thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10216/61675.

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Bastos, Luisa Ferreira. "Mathematical models for educational simulation of uterine contractions during labor." Dissertação, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10216/61675.

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Sengul, Gonul 1980. "Essays on heterogeneity in labor markets." 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/18423.

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My dissertation focuses on the heterogeneity in labor markets. The first chapter proposes an explanation for the unemployment rate difference between skill groups. Low skill workers (workers without a four year college degree) have a higher unemployment rate. The reason for that "... is mainly because they (low skill workers) are more likely to become unemployed, not because they remain unemployed longer, once unemployed" (Layard, Nickell, Jackman, 1991, p. 44). This chapter proposes an explanation for the difference in job separation probabilities between these skill groups: high skill workers have lower job separation probabilities as they are selected more effectively during the hiring process. I use a labor search model with match specific quality to quantify the explanatory power of this hypothesis on differences in job separation probabilities and unemployment rates across skill groups. The second chapter analyzes the effects of one channel of interaction (job competition) between skill groups on their labor market outcomes. Do skilled workers prefer unskilled jobs to being unemployed? If so, skilled workers compete with unskilled workers for those jobs. Job competition generates interaction between the labor market outcomes of these groups. I use a heterogeneous agents model with skilled and unskilled workers in which the only interaction across groups is the job competition. Direct effects of job competition are reducing skilled unemployment rate (since they have a bigger market) and increasing the unskilled unemployment rate (since they face greater competition). However number of vacancies respond to job competition in equilibrium. For instance, unskilled firms have incentives to open more vacancies since filling a vacancy is easier if there is job competition. Thus how unskilled unemployment and wages are affected by job competition depends on which effect dominates. The results for reasonable parameter values show that job competition does reduce the average unemployment rate. It reduces the skilled unemployment rate more, generating an increase in unemployment rate inequality. However, the employment rate at skilled jobs is unaffected. The third chapter focuses on skill biased technological change. Skill biased technological change is one of the explanations for the asymmetry between labor market outcomes of skill groups over the last few decades. However, during this time period there were also skill neutral shocks that could contribute to these outcomes. The third chapter analyzes the effects of skill biased and neutral shocks on overall labor market variables. I use a model in which skilled and unskilled outputs are intermediate goods, and final good sector receives all the shocks. A numerical exercise shows that both skilled and unskilled unemployment rates respond to shocks in the same direction. The response of unemployment rate to skill neutral shocks is bigger than the response to skill biased shocks for both skill groups. However, the unskilled unemployment changes more than the skilled unemployment rate as a response to skill neutral shocks. Thus, skill neutral shocks reduce the unemployment rate gap between skill groups.
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Lich-Tyler, Stephen Woolfley. "The dynamics of individual and household behavior." 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3114772.

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"Determination of internal wage structure under tournament and human capital theory." Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1991. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5887021.

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by Yau Oi-Man.
Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1992.
Includes bibliographical references.
ABSTRACT
ACKNOWLEDGE
Chapter CHAPTER I --- --- LITERATURE REVIEW --- p.1-16
Chapter CHAPTER II --- --- TOURNAMENT AND SPECIFIC HUMAN CAPITAL --- p.17-55
Chapter CHAPTER III --- --- THEORETICAL FOUNDATION OF EXPERIMENTS --- p.56-70
Chapter CHAPTER IV --- --- EXPERIMENTS --- p.71-111
SUMMARY --- p.112
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Kawaguchi, Akira. "Effects of taxes and transfer payments on married women's labour supply and welfare." Phd thesis, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/129746.

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It has been observed that the labour supply of married women is sensitive to wage rate and nonwage income as well as to other socio-economic variables. It is of interest, for economists and policy makers, to measure the effects of taxes and transfer payments on the labour supply and welfare of married women. In the last two decades, much effort has been devoted to the development of the theory of labour supply and to the application of this theory to policy analysis. This thesis intends to contribute to the study of labour supply on three counts. A usual way of estimating a system of labour supply and a demand functions is to estimate the labour supply function only, and parameters in the demand function are identified by the budget constraint and the labour supply function. We will discuss that a labour supply function estimated in this way is valid even if there exists a certain form of an unobservable transaction cost We also show that, under certain types of nonlinear budget constraints, the utility consistency of the labour supply function can be examined in a similar way to that of the labour supply function with linear budget constraints, and dual functions and identities still hold. Moreover, we develop a method of estimating utility consistent labour supply under an endogenous market wage rate. Individuals generally pay labour market entry costs such as the expenses of transportation, uniforms, child care, and self education. A part of these entry costs is paid for indirectly by the government through the deduction of these expenses from taxable income and through subsidies for child care. Our second contribution is to derive a numerical expression for the effects, on labour supply and earnings, of two types of subsidies for market entry, and to measure these effects using Australian data. The estimation result shows that if the government gave a lump sum subsidy to all working wives, a one dollar subsidy will increase an average wife's wage income by $1.10, and if the government gave a subsidy that was proportional to the number of hours worked, to all woridng wives, a one dollar subsidy would increase an average wife's wage income by $2.36. Our third contribution is to estimate a labour supply function with piecewiselinear budget constraints, and to assess several tax reforms. We shall focus especially on the difference between a tax system under which tax rates are based on individual income (individual-income-based tax system) and a tax system under which tax rates are based on a couple's joint income (joint-income-based tax system). We find that if both the pre-reform tax system and the post-reform tax system are based on individual income, introducing a single rate tax system will reduce the work effort of married women, and increase the excess burden of taxes. On the other hand, if both the pre-reform tax system and the post-reform tax system are joint-income-based, introducing a single rate tax system would encourage the work effort of married women, and reduce the excess burden of taxes. A lesson from this result is that similar tax reforms may have quite different effects on the labour supply and the welfare of married women according to whether the tax rate is based on individual income or on a couple's joint income.
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"Peer pressure and contractual arrangement." 2009. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5894034.

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Lee, Hung Fei.
Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2009.
Includes bibliographical references (leaf 67).
Abstract also in Chinese.
Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.P.1
Chapter 2 --- Literature Reviews --- p.P.1
Chapter 2.1 --- Sources of peer effect --- p.P.1
Chapter 2.2 --- Peer pressure and contracts --- p.p.8
Chapter 3 --- Model --- p.p.16
Chapter 4 --- First Best Situation --- p.p.18
Chapter 5 --- Revenue Sharing Contract under Peer Pressure --- p.p.20
Chapter 5.1 --- No constraints on the fixed payments and commission rates --- p.p.21
Chapter 5.2 --- "Negative fixed payment is allowed, but the sum of commission rates has to be less than 100%" --- p.p.24
Chapter 5.3 --- Negative fixed payment is not allowed --- p.p.27
Chapter 5.4 --- Implications on human resource investment --- p.p.31
Chapter 5.5 --- Implications on players preference for a new member --- p.p.33
Chapter 6 --- Fixed Wage Contract with Supervision under Peer Pressure --- p.p.33
Chapter 6.1 --- No agent exceeding the target --- p.p.34
Chapter 6.2 --- One agent exceeding the target --- p.p.40
Chapter 6.3 --- Implications on human resource investment --- p.p.44
Chapter 6.4 --- Implications on players' preference for a new member --- p.p.45
Chapter 7 --- The Choice between Revenue Sharing and Fixed Wage --- p.p.46
Chapter 8 --- Conclusion --- p.p.49
Chapter 9 --- Appendix --- p.p.49
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"Ricardian trade and agglomeration." 2011. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5894856.

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Pan, Jutong.
"August 2011."
Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2011.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 23-24).
Abstracts in English and Chinese.
Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1
Chapter 2 --- Basic Model --- p.4
Chapter 3 --- Analysis --- p.6
Chapter 3.1 --- Starrett Theorem with Labor Productivity Differences --- p.6
Chapter 3.2 --- A Simple Case: Indivisible Labor --- p.9
Chapter 3.3 --- Divisible Labor and Partial Labor Mobility --- p.12
Chapter 3.3.1 --- Scenario 1: high transportation costs and no trade across regions --- p.13
Chapter 3.3.2 --- Scenario 2: low transportation costs and inter-regional trade --- p.17
Chapter 3.3.3 --- The parameter conditions for Scenario 1/2 --- p.20
Chapter 4 --- Conclusion --- p.21
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"On the role of outside option in wage bargaining." 2011. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5894668.

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Chen, Fengjiao.
Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2011.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 34-35).
Abstracts in English and Chinese.
Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1
Chapter 2 --- Literature Review --- p.5
Chapter 2.1 --- Wage Bargaining and Strike --- p.6
Chapter 2.2 --- Outside Option --- p.7
Chapter 3 --- The Model Setting --- p.9
Chapter 4 --- Equilibrium Analysis --- p.12
Chapter 4.1 --- Equilibrium when b < We --- p.12
Chapter 4.2 --- Equilibrium when b = We --- p.13
Chapter 4.3 --- Equilibrium when b > We --- p.15
Chapter 4.4 --- Opting Out is an Equilibrium --- p.26
Chapter 4.5 --- Implications on Preemption and Renegotiation --- p.27
Chapter 5 --- Discussion --- p.28
Chapter 5.1 --- Without Outside Option (HHFG Model) --- p.28
Chapter 5.2 --- Committed to Strike (Shaked 1994) --- p.29
Chapter 5.3 --- The Influence of discount factor 5 --- p.30
Chapter 5.4 --- Equilibrium Refinement by Good Faith Bargaining Rule --- p.31
Chapter 6 --- Conclusion --- p.32
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"Indeterminacy in small open economy models with endogenous time preference." 2003. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5891604.

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Bian Yong.
Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2003.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 34-37).
Abstracts in English and Chinese.
Chapter I. --- Introduction --- p.1
Chapter II. --- Indeterminacy in a Small Open Economy Model with Endogenous Time Preference --- p.4
Chapter 2.1 --- Economic Environment --- p.5
Chapter 2.1.1 --- Technology --- p.5
Chapter 2. 1. 2 --- Dynamic Model --- p.8
Chapter 2.2 --- The indeterminacy result --- p.12
Chapter 2.3 --- Conclusion --- p.12
Chapter III. --- Indeterminacy in a Small Open Economy Model with Endogenous Labor Supply --- p.14
Chapter 3. 1 --- Economic Environment --- p.17
Chapter 3.2 --- Preference --- p.21
Chapter 3.3 --- Dynamics of Equilibrium --- p.24
Chapter 3.4 --- Indeterminacy and Scale Economies --- p.28
Chapter 3. 4. 1 --- Case1 --- p.30
Chapter 3.4.2 --- Case2 --- p.31
Chapter 3.5 --- Conclusion --- p.32
Chapter IV. --- References --- p.34
Chapter V. --- Appendix --- p.38
Chapter 5. 1 --- Technology --- p.38
Chapter 5.2 --- Preference --- p.41
Chapter 5. 3 --- Dynamics of Equilibrium --- p.43
Chapter 5. 3. 1 --- Case1 --- p.49
Chapter 5. 3. 2 --- Case2 --- p.50
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"Contracts in the showbiz world." 2009. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5894024.

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Lam, Wing Man Wynne.
Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2009.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 40-41).
Abstract also in Chinese.
Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1
Chapter 2 --- The Model --- p.5
Chapter 3 --- One-Period Game --- p.8
Chapter 3.1 --- Revenue Share --- p.8
Chapter 3.2 --- Implications --- p.11
Chapter 4 --- Two-Period Game --- p.12
Chapter 4.1 --- Contract Duration --- p.12
Chapter 4.2 --- Implications --- p.16
Chapter 5 --- Two-Sided Game --- p.17
Chapter 5.1 --- Negotiation of the Share --- p.17
Chapter 5.2 --- Implications --- p.20
Chapter 5.3 --- Discussion --- p.21
Chapter 6 --- Conclusion and Ideas for Future Research --- p.24
Chapter 7 --- Appendices --- p.26
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"Cross-border workers, income distribution, and welfare for the host economy." 2002. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5891179.

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Lao Man-hoi.
Thesis submitted in: December 2001.
Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2002.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 52-54).
Abstracts in English and Chinese.
Abstract (English) --- p.i
Abstract (Chinese) --- p.ii
Acknowledgements --- p.iii
Table of Contents --- p.iv
Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1
Chapter 1.1 --- Objectives of the Thesis --- p.1
Chapter 1.2 --- Organization of the Thesis --- p.5
Chapter 2 --- Literature Review --- p.6
Chapter 3 --- A Model with Perfect Competition --- p.18
Chapter 3.1 --- Introduction --- p.18
Chapter 3.2 --- The Model --- p.19
Chapter 3.3 --- Income Distribution --- p.23
Chapter 3.3.1 --- Changes in the Relative Price --- p.23
Chapter 3.3.2 --- Income Distribution --- p.24
Chapter 3.4 --- WelfareAnalysis --- p.26
Chapter 4 --- A Model with Imperfect Competition --- p.28
Chapter 4.1 --- Introduction --- p.28
Chapter 4.2 --- The Model --- p.29
Chapter 4.3 --- Outputs and Income Distribution --- p.33
Chapter 4.3.1 --- Short-Run Capital Specificity --- p.35
Chapter 4.3.2 --- Long-Run Capital Mobility --- p.38
Chapter 4.4 --- Welfare Analysis --- p.42
Chapter 4.4.1 --- Short-Run Capital Specificity --- p.43
Chapter 4.4.2 --- Long-Run Capital Mobility --- p.44
Chapter 5 --- Summary and Concluding Remarks --- p.47
Appendices --- p.50
Bibliography --- p.52
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Almeida, João António Saraiva Rocha de. "The role of human capital in economic growth: Evidence from OECD countries." Master's thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/21151.

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Esta investigação pretende estimar a relação entre o capital humano e o crescimento económico de diferentes países da OCDE, com base em dados em painel recolhidos entre 2005 e 2015. Para avaliar os efeitos da tecnologia e suas repercussões no capital humano, foi efetuada uma análise exploratória para uma amostra de 12 países, com base na qual foram estimados modelos de regressão linear controlados por efeitos fixos e aleatórios. Concluiu-se que a generalidade dos dados relacionados com o capital humano aponta para um resultado insignificante da percentagem da população com ensino superior para explicar o crescimento económico, como também demonstrado por outros autores, como Henderson (2010) e Durlauf et al. (2008). No entanto, a contribuição do ensino básico e secundário para o desenvolvimento económico é maior do que o convencionalmente percecionado. A análise foi subdividida em dois períodos, a fim de compreender o efeito da educação sobre as economias da OCDE, quer num contexto de crise quer num de recuperação económica. Os resultados sugerem diferentes níveis de influência em relação ao abandono escolar e aos gastos públicos com educação. De um modo geral, a economia parece ser afetada negativamente por essas duas variáveis durante um período de crise, em contraste com um cenário de recuperação, onde os efeitos dessas variáveis são insignificantes. Foi ainda evidenciado o papel fulcral do comércio em ambos os ciclos económicos. Este trabalho mostra que a conexão entre educação, tecnologia e crescimento económico continua a ser um assunto multifacetado, dependendo da abordagem e dos métodos adotados.
This research aims to estimate the relationship between human capital and economic growth of different OECD countries, using panel data collected from 2005 to 2015. To assess the effects of technology and its repercussions in human capital an exploratory analysis was performed for a sample of 12 countries, from which linear regression estimations controlled by fixed and random effects were established. It was found that matters regarding human capital point toward an insignificant outcome of tertiary education for explaining economic growth. This is in accordance with authors such as Henderson (2010) and Durlauf et al. (2008). Nevertheless, the contribution of primary and secondary schooling to economic development is greater than what has conventionally been perceived. The analysis was subdivided into two periods, in order to perceive the education effect on the OECD economies, either in a crisis or in an economic recovery context. The results suggest different levels of influence regarding children out of school and public expenditures on education. In general, economic development appears to be negatively affected by these two variables during a crisis period, in contrast with a recovery scenario where the effects of such variables are meaningless. The important effect of trade over economic growth in every circumstance was also highlighted. This work shows that the connection between education, technology and economic growth remains a multifaceted subject, depending on the approach and the methods adopted.
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