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The Choice of Institutions: The Role of Risk and Risk-Aversion
Weinhold, Diana; Zak, Paul J. - EconWPA - 2005
Institutions can affect individual behavior both via their efficiency impact and via their risk reducing mechanisms … simultaneously extant institutions. This paper presents a simple model of institutional choice in a labor market when there is a risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118909
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The formation of experts' expectations on labour markets : do they run with the pack?
Schanne, Norbert - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2012
unemployment in the short run. In this data we can discriminate between close and less-close peers to overcome the reflection …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010641636
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Regional unemployment forecasts with spatial interdependencies
Schanne, Norbert; Wapler, Rüdiger; Weyh, Antje - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2008
"We forecast unemployment for the 176 German labour-market districts on a monthly basis. Because of their small size …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005537154
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Regional unemployment forecasts with spatial interdependencies
Schanne, Norbert; Wapler, Rüdiger; Weyh, Antje - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2008
"We forecast unemployment for the 176 German labour-market districts on a monthly basis. Because of their small size …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592415
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Constructing a new leading indicator for unemployment from a survey among German employment agencies
Hutter, Christian; Weber, Enzo - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2013
forecasting German unemployment in the short run. Every month, the CEOs of the FEA's regional agencies are asked about their … expectations of future labor market developments. We generate an aggregate unemployment leading indicator that exploits serial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010720410
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Land Inequality and the Origin of Divergence and Overtaking in the Growth Process
Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer; Vollrath, Dietrich - EconWPA - 2004
associated with inequality adversely affected the emergence of institutions that promote human capital accumulation. The research …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125614
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Context Matters – Rethinking the Resource Curse in Sub-Saharan Africa
Basedau, Matthias - EconWPA - 2005
Natural resources in sub-Saharan Africa suffer from a bad reputation. Oil and diamonds, particularly, have been blamed for a number of Africa’s illnesses such as poverty, corruption, dictatorship and war. This paper outlines the different areas and transmission channels of how this so-called...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125845
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Dual Economies and International Total Factor Productivity Differences
Chanda, Areendam; Dalgaard, Carl-Johan - EconWPA - 2003
from institutions, and to some extent, geography, on long-run prosperity and TFP, may be thus explained. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126217
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Land Inequality and the Emergence of Human Capital Promoting Institutions
Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer; Vollrath, Dietrich - EconWPA - 2005
distribution of land ownership, adversely affected the implementation of human capital promoting institutions (e.g., public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062436
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CRECIMIENTO, INSTITUCIONES Y CONVERGENCIA EN MEXICO CONSIDERANDO A LA FRONTERA NORTE
Diaz-Bautista, Alejandro - EconWPA - 2004
institutions. The study conducts a literature review on the theoretical and empirical works of economic growth, with emphasis in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062522