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Heid, Benedikt; Larch, Mario - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011

immigration on unemployment. The transitory restrictions for worker migration after the EU enlargements of 2004 and 2007 exemplify … alongside trade on unemployment taking into account the substitutability of worker and goods flows. We use data from 24 OECD … persistence of unemployment. We find a significant negative effect of immigration on unemployment on average. …

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Increased price markup from union coordination: OECD panel evidence

Bjørnstad, Roger; Kalstad, Kjartan Øren - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010

effect of coordination on unemployment. …

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FDI, skill-specific unemployment, and institutional spillover effects

Schmerer, Hans-Jörg - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

facilitates the analysis of skill-specific institutional changes. A government can influence wages and unemployment of the low …

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Structural unemployment in Europe: A bird's-eye view

Paqué, Karl-Heinz - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1996

This paper presents a synoptic interpretation of structural unemployment in Europe. The paper consists of three parts …. Part 1 summarises some major stilysed facts of the record and the state of unemployment in Europe. In part 2, these facts … are taken as the basis for a theoretical interpretation of the genesis and persistence of European unemployment. Part 3 …

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Implicit Microfoundations for Macroeconomics

Wright, Ian - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2008

A large market economy has a huge number of degrees of freedom with weak microlevel coordination. The implicit microfoundations' approach assumes this property of micro-level interactions more strongly conditions macro-level outcomes compared to the precise details of individual choice behavior;...

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Economic impacts of climate change on two Mexican coastal fisheries: Implications to food security

Aguilar Ibarra, Alonso; Sanchez Vargas, Armando; … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

This paper has a two-fold objective. First, to estimate the changes in landings value by 2030 of two Mexican coastal fisheries: shrimp and sardines as a consequence of climate change. And second, to discuss the implications for food security of such impacts. We estimated output equations using a...

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Consistent estimation of pseudo panels in the presence of selection bias

Rodriguez, Mora; James, Jhon; Muro, Juan - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

In the presence of selection bias, traditional estimators of pseudo panel data are inconsistent. In this paper, the authors derive the conditions under which consistence is achieved in pseudo-panel estimation and propose a simple test of selection bias. Specifically, they propose a Wald test for...

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The literacy impact on tax revenues

Mutascu, Mihai; Danuletiu, Dan - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

The paper investigates the relationship between tax revenues and literacy level, using a panel-model approach. The dataset covers the period 1996 to 2010 and includes 123 countries. The estimations suggest that the assumed function is nonlinear, with inverted-U and U-shaped curves. More...

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Determinants of the weight for leisure in preferences

Elgin, Ceyhun; Yucel, Emekcan - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

of unionization and unemployment. …

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Islands in trade: Disentangling distance from border effects

Groizard, José Luis; Marques, Helena; Gallego Santana, … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014

There is a well-established literature on border effects covering trade between regions separated by a land border; however that literature has not so far considered the case of regions separated by a sea border. Whilst the former is typically studied as a political border that affects adjacent...

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