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Inequality and informality in transition and emerging countries
Dell' Anno, Roberto - 2016
Higher inequality reduces capital accumulation and increases the informal economy, which creates additional employment opportunities for low-skilled and deprived people. Despite this positive feedback, informality raises problems for public finances and biases official statistics, reducing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011665024
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Occupational upgrading and the business cycle in West Germany
Büttner, Thomas; Jacobebbinghaus, Peter; Ludsteck, Johannes - 2010
The occupational skill structure depends on the business cycle if employers respond to shortages of applicants during upturns by lowering their hiring standards. Devereux uses this implication to construct empirical tests for the notion of hiring standards adjustment (the so-called Reder...
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What accounts for the increase in female labor force participation in Spain
Osuna-Padilla, Victoria - 2018
Over the last three decades, Spanish female labor force participation (LFP) has tremendously increased, particularly, that of married women. At the same time, the income tax structure, the fiscal treatment of families, policies to reconcile family and work, and the education distribution of...
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Energy consumption and the size of the informal economy
Basbay, Mustafa Metin; Elgin, Ceyhun; Torul, Orhan - 2016
In this paper, the authors empirically investigate the relationship between energy consumption and the size of the informal economy. Relying on panel data regression models, their results show that at the aggregate level, energy intensity is inversely related to the size of the informal sector,...
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Which panel data estimator should I use? : a corrigendum and extension
Moundigbaye, Mantobaye; Rea, William S.; Reed, W. Robert - 2018
This study uses Monte Carlo experiments to produce new evidence on the performance of a wide range of panel data estimators. It focuses on estimators that are readily available in statistical software packages such as Stata and Eviews, and for which the number of cross-sectional units (N) and...
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Cyclical dimensions of labour mobility after EU enlargement
Ahearnea, Alan; Brücker, Herbert; Darvasa, Zsolt; … - 2009
This paper explores the influence of the economic cycle on labour mobility within the EU, focusing on the likely impact …. -- labour mobility ; economic cycle ; crisis ; European Union …
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UK national minimum wage and labor market outcomes of young workers
Fidrmuc, Jan; Tena, J. D.; Reed, W. Robert - 2018
The UK national minimum wage (NMW) is age-specific with the most important threshold at the age of 22 (lowered to 21 from 2010 onwards) when workers become eligible for the adult rate. The authors estimate the impact of this threshold on employment by means of a regression discontinuity...
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Gravity models : a tool for migration analysis : availability of bilateral data on migratory flows has renewed interest in using gravity models to identify migration determinants
Ramos, Raúl - 2016
Gravity models have long been popular for analyzing economic phenomena related to the movement of goods and services, capital, or even people; however, data limitations regarding migration flows have hindered their use in this context. With access to improved bilateral (country to country) data,...
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The debt-growth nexus in poor countries : a reassessment
Presbitero, Andrea (contributor) - 2008
The paper investigates the relationship between external debt and economic growth, focusing on the role played by the policy and institutional framework. Results for a panel of 114 developing countries show that the debt-growth nexus depends on institutions and policies. The Debt-Laffer curve...
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The information content and redistribution effects of state and municipal rating changes in Mexico
Mendoza Velázquez, Alfonso - 2009
The fiscal and financial reforms carried out in Mexico in 2000 have encouraged a widespread presence of rating agencies … government in Mexico intending to access credit and capital markets must count with at least one credit rating from one of the … State and Municipal governments on bond returns in Mexico. By employing a Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) structure for …
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