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Testing for Output Convergence: A Re-Examination
Cheung, Yin-Wong; Pascual, Antonio I. Garcia - CESifo - 2000
This paper investigates output convergence for the G7 countries using multivariate time series techniques. We consider both the null hypotheses of no convergence and convergence. It is shown that inferences on output convergence depend on which one of the two null hypotheses is considered....
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The Euro-Dollar Exchange Rate: Is it Fundamental?
Camarero, Mariam; Ordóñez, Javier; Tamarit, Cecilio - CESifo - 2002
-area currencies. First, using dynamic panel techniques, we estimate an error correction model for the dollar real exchange rate versus …
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The Minimum Wage from a Two-Sided Perspective
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis - CESifo - 2014
This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective, in which firms’ job offer and workers’ job acceptance decisions are disentangled. Minimum wages reduce job offer incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show...
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International Trade and Unemployment: A Quantitative Framework
Heid, Benedikt; Larch, Mario - CESifo - 2012
changes. While employment and welfare increase in most countries, some experience higher unemployment and lower welfare. Labor …
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Entrepreneurship, Economic Conditions, and the Great Recession
Fairlie, Robert W. - CESifo - 2013
conditions are a major determinant of entrepreneurship. Higher local unemployment rates are found to increase the probability … individuals who are initially not employed respond more to high local unemployment rates by starting businesses than wage … influences resulting in higher levels of business creation. Using the regression estimates for the local unemployment rate …
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Absenteeism, Unemployment and Employment Protection Legislation: Evidence from Italy
Scoppa, Vincenzo; Vuri, Daniela - CESifo - 2013
Efficiency wages theories argue that the threat of firing, coupled with a high unemployment rate, is a mechanism that … discourages employee shirking in asymmetric information contexts. Our empirical analysis aims to verify the role of unemployment … Protection Legislation to workers employed in small and large firms. We use a panel of administrative data (WHIP) and consider …
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Unemployment, Growth and Speed of Transition in China
Fidrmuc, Jan; Huang, Shuo - CESifo - 2013
We investigate the relationship between unemployment and growth in China. We find considerable differences in the … find a hump-shaped relationship between unemployment and our proxy for the speed of reform. The current unemployment in …
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Partnership, Gender Roles and the Well-Being Cost of Unemployment
Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie; Weimann, Joachim - CESifo - 2012
how a person’s employment status affects cognitive well-being. Our results show that unemployment has a negative impact on … strengthens the loss in identity utility of men, but weakens that of women. Unemployment of a person’s partner reduces the …
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Immigration, Growth and Unemployment: Panel VAR Evidence from OECD Countries
Boubtane, Ekrame; Coulibaly, Dramane; Rault, Christophe - CESifo - 2013
panel VAR techniques to use a large annual dataset on 22 OECD countries over the period 1987-2009. The VAR approach allows … impact on aggregate unemployment, native- and foreign-born unemployment rates). We also find that migration is influenced by … host economic conditions (migration responds positively to host GDP per capita and negatively to host total unemployment …
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Unemployment and Endogenous Reallocation over the Business Cycle
Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos; Visschers, Ludo - CESifo - 2013
unemployment and its underlying duration distribution. We develop an analytically and computationally tractable stochastic … equilibrium model with heterogenous labor markets. In this model three different types of unemployment arise: search, rest and … reallocation unemployment. We document new evidence on unemployed workers’ gross occupational mobility and use it to calibrate the …
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