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    Title: Labor-Market Volatility in the Search-And-Matching Model: The Role of Investment-Specific Technology Shocks  Author(s): FACCINI, Renato; ORTIGUEIRA, Salvador Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: Shocks to investment-specific technology have been identified as a main source of U.S. aggregate output volatility. In this paper, we present a model with frictions in the labor market and explore the contribution of these ...
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    Title: Three Essays in Macro Labor Teory  Author(s): FACCINI, Renato Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses Abstract: This thesis presents three papers in macro labor theory. All of them share the particular approach to the theory of unemployment pioneered by Dale Mortensen and Chris Pissarides. In these models unemployment is frictional, ...
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    Title: Labor-Market Volatility in the Search-and-Matching Model: The Role of Investment-Specific Technology Shocks  Author(s): FACCINI, Renato; ORTIGUEIRA, Salvador Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: Shocks to investment-specific technology have been identified as a main source of U.S. aggregate output volatility. In this paper we assess the contribution of these shocks to the volatility of labor market variables, ...
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    Title: Reassessing Labor Market Reforms: Temporary Contracts as a Screening Device  Author(s): FACCINI, Renato Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: Standard models of temporary contracts are either inconclusive, or fail to ac- count for the positive correlation between temporary contracts and the employ- ment rate, and for the high transition rates into permanent ...
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    Title: Unemployment and Within-Group Wage Inequality: Can Information Explain the Trade-Off?  Author(s): FACCINI, Renato Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: In Italy, following WWII, speci c hiring procedures were developed that prevented rms from screening workers. More in particular, these institutions char- acterized the Italian labor market with respect to the US labor ...