Segmentation in the Brazilian Labor Market

Dual Labor Markets: A Theory of Labor Market Segmentation

Teen Fertility and Labor Market Segmentation: Evidence from Madagascar

Women represent the majority of informal sector workers in developing countries, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa where adolescent pregnancy rates are high. Little empirical evidence exists concerning the relationship between teen fertility and the likelihood that a woman will be employed in the informal sector. Using a panel survey in Madagascar designed to capture the transition from adolesce...

the test for adverse selection in life insurance market: the case of mellat insurance company

انتخاب نامساعد یکی از مشکلات اساسی در صنعت بیمه است. که ابتدا در سال 1960، توسط روتشیلد واستیگلیتز مورد بحث ومطالعه قرار گرفت ازآن موقع تاکنون بسیاری از پژوهشگران مدل های مختلفی را برای تجزیه و تحلیل تقاضا برای صنعت بیمه عمر که تماما ناشی از عدم قطعیت در این صنعت میباشد انجام داده اند .وهدف از آن پیدا کردن شرایطی است که تحت آن شرایط انتخاب یا کنار گذاشتن یک بیمه گزار به نفع و یا زیان شرکت بیمه ...

The nurse labor market.

The national shortage of nurses, which grew to crisis proportions in many communities in the late 1970s, has subsided. Recent evidence suggests that hospital nurse vacancy and turnover rates have declined significantly since 1979. The recent swift reversal in the availability of nurses, from shortage to waiting lists in some hospitals, has taken many by surprise. It also raises the possibility ...

Wiring the Labor Market

T he labor market is replete with imperfect and asymmetric information. Workers and jobs are naturally heterogeneous, and the quality of their interaction when paired is notoriously difficult to forecast. Workers searching for a job are unlikely to be fully informed about job characteristics, and firms cannot exhaustively screen and negotiate with all applicants. Electronic commerce specificall...