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Labordoc
Internationale Arbeitsorganisation - 1996
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Unemployment and Finance: How Do Financial and Labour Market Factors Interact?
Gatti, Donatella; Vaubourg, Anne-Gaël - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Using data for 18 OECD countries over the period 1980-2004, we investigate how labour and financial factors interact to determine unemployment. We show that the impact of financial variables depends strongly on the labour market context. Increased market capitalization as well as decreased...
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Labour Market Institutions and Unemployment: Does Finance Matter?
Rault, Christophe; Vaubourg, Anne-Gaël - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We explore whether finance influences the impact of labour market institutions on unemployment. Using a data set of 18 OECD countries over 1980-2004, we estimate a panel VectorAutoRegressive model. We check whether causalities from labour market variables to unemployment are affected by...
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Green Jobs: Erlebt Deutschland sein grünes Beschäftigungswunder?
Pestel, Nico - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Die Politik hat es sich zum Ziel gesetzt, die deutsche Volkswirtschaft langfristig zu einer Green Economy zu wandeln. Das beinhaltet nicht nur die zunehmende Umstellung der Energieversorgung auf erneuerbare Quellen, sondern soll auch zusätzliche Arbeitsplätze – Green Jobs – schaffen. Aus...
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Directional Imbalance in Transport Prices: An Application to Inland Shipping in North-West Europe
Jonkeren, Olaf; Ommeren, Jos N. van; Rietveld, Piet - Tinbergen Institute - 2011
According to theory, the effect of carriers' transport costs on freight prices depends on the directional imbalance in transport flows. Using data on inland waterway transport, we demonstrate that when the ratio of export to import trips doubles, the marginal effect of carriers' transport costs...
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Entrepreneurship of the Left-Behind
Giulietti, Corrado; Wahba, Jackline; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
While there is evidence that return migration promotes entrepreneurship and self-employment of those who migrated, previous studies have not focused on whether migration provides the same benefits to individuals who did not migrate. Using a unique dataset that provides information on both...
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Documentation IZAΨMOD v3.0: The IZA Policy Simulation Model
Loeffler, Max; Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico; Siegloch, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper describes IZAΨMOD, the policy microsimulation model of the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). The model …, public transfers. Secondly, behavioral labor supply responses are estimated. The third component distinguishes our model from … most other microsimulation tools. A demand module takes into account possible restrictions of labor demand and identifies …
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Ethnic Discrimination in China's Internet Job Board Labor Market
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We conduct a large‐scale field experiment to investigate how Chinese firms respond to job applications from ethnic minority and Han applicants for jobs posted on a large Chinese Internet job board. We denote ethnicity by means of names that are typically Han Chinese and distinctively...
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Catastrophic Job Destruction
Carneiro, Anabela; Portugal, Pedro; Varejão, José - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
In this article we study the resilience of the Portuguese labor market, in terms of job flows, employment and wage …, and the labor market segmentation channel. We uncover what we believe is convincing evidence that the severity of credit … net job creation and higher failure rates of firms. Finally, labor market segmentation seems to have favored a stronger …
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Stature and Life-Time Labor Market Outcomes: Accounting for Unobserved Differences
Böckerman, Petri; Vainiomäki, Jari - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
height on life-time labor market outcomes. The use of twin data allows us to remove otherwise unobserved ability and other …
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