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The impact of remittances on economic growth in small-open developing economies
Ahortor, Christian R.K.; Adenutsi, Deodat E. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The essence of this study is to verify the macroeconomic implications of cross-border remittances for economic growth prospects of small-open developing economies for the period, 1996-2006. A set of dynamic panel model, specified within the framework of Blundell-Bond Generalized Method of Moment...
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Heterogeneous determinants of local unemployment in Poland
Ciżkowicz, Piotr; Kowalczuk, Michał; Rzońca, Andrzej - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
We identify determinants of large disparities in local unemployment rates in Poland using panel data on NUTS-4 level (poviats). We find that the disparities are linked to local demographics, education and sectoral employment composition rather than to local demand factors. However, the impact of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109389
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Baumol and the post-industrial trilemma: examining the relationship between productivity, prices and wages
Lewis, Paul; Peng, Fei - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper challenges the economic constraints associated with the so-called post-industrial trilemma. Following Iversen’s and Wren’s seminal 1998 paper, it has been widely accepted that differential industry-level productivity increases rule out a solidaristic structure of wages, due to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259249
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Selection and Real wage cyclicality: Germany Case
Kang, Lili; Peng, Fei - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper examines the selection biases in the cyclical behaviour of real wages using the German Socio-Economic Panel Data (GSOEP) for the 1984-2009 period. We find rigid wages of job stayers in Germany.
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Wage Flexibility in Chinese Labor Market 1989-2009
Peng, Fei; Kang, Lili - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper analyses wage flexibility in Chinese labor market using the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) for the period 1989-2009. China has highly coordinated wage-setting institutions which might contribute to higher wage sensitivity of the coordinated workers, but lower sensitivity in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110301
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Labor Mobility and Racial Discrimination
Deschamps, Pierre; De Sousa, Jose - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This paper assesses the impact of labor mobility on racial discrimination. We present an equilibrium search model that … reveals an inverted U-shaped relationship between labor mobility and race-based wage differentials. We explore this … relationship empirically with an exogenous mobility shock on the European soccer labor market. The Bosman ruling by the European …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109132
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Mobility, wages and gender across Europe
Contreras, Dulce; D; Sánchez, Rosario; R; Soria, Delfina; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
In this paper, the socioeconomic and individual characteristics that favor mobility are analyzed. The stochastic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114233
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Regulation, enforcement and informality: an analysis based on selected countries
Roychowdhury, Punarjit; Dutta, Mousumi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The informal economy has been occupying a key position in the development-discourse ever since it was ‘discovered’ in the Ghana in the second half of the 20th century. A good deal of literature has grown up in the past forty years with efforts to ‘formalize’ the concept of informality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009025302
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Taxes, Transfers and the Distribution of Employment in Mexico
Alonso Ortiz, Jorge; Leal Ordóñez, Julio C. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The informal sector accounts for a substantial fraction of employed population in Mexico and other Latin American …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009151618
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Globalization, female employment, and regional differences in OECD countries
Fischer, Justina A.V. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Accounting for within-country spatial differences is a much neglected issue in many cross-country comparisons. This paper highlights this importance in this empirical analysis of the impact of a country’s degree of social and economic globalization on female employment in 33 OECD countries,...
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