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Quasi-experimental impact estimates of immigrant labor supply shocks: the role of treatment and comparison group matching and relative skill composition
Aydemir, Abdurrahman; Kirdar, Murat G. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
find a positive effect of repatriates on the unemployment of non-repatriates. In fact, in certain regions, a 10-percentage …-point increase in the share of repatriates in the labor force increases the unemployment rate of natives by 4 percentage points. When …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009402063
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Effects of Business Cycles on Labour Market Assimilation of Immigrants
Aydemir, Abdurrahman - EconWPA - 2003
This study addresses the effects of macroeconomic conditions on the labour market outcomes of immigrants. It simultaneously identifies the separate effects of macro conditions at the time of entry to the labour market and at the time of the survey, while allowing for cohort effects. Also, for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408346
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Effects of Business Cycles on Labour Market Assimilation of Immigrants
Aydemir, Abdurrahman - EconWPA - 2003
This study addresses the effects of macroeconomic conditions on the labour market outcomes of immigrants. It simultaneously identifies the separate effects of macro conditions at the time of entry to the labour market and at the time of the survey, while allowing for cohort effects. Also, for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408360
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Explaining the Deteriorating Entry Earnings of Canada’s Immigrant
Aydemir, Abdurrahman; Skuterud, Mikal - EconWPA - 2004
The study explores causes of the deterioration in entry earnings of Canadian immigrant cohorts by estimating an empirical specification that nests a number of competing explanations found in the Canadian literature. To do this, we use the pooled sample of Canadian-born and immigrant men employed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408361
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How Does Democracy fare with Economic Welfare for a Trading Nation?
Mamoon, Dawood - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The paper examines how political institutions in comparison to legal, social and economic institutions fare with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835603
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Beyond Institutionalism: There Lies a Good Set of Trade Policies
Mamoon, Dawood; Murshed, S. Mansoob - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The purpose of this paper is to empirically examine the contribution of trade liberalisation to differences in the level of prosperity across nations. We compare this with the relative contribution of institutional capacity to prosperity, as well as the role of human capital accumulation in that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008876646
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Transitioning Democracies are a Risky Business in the South
Mamoon, Dawood - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The paper finds that trade is insignificant in explaining income inequality. The results also suggest institutions are … for some institutions like rule of law when the sample is restricted to developing countries. However, for other … institutions like democracy and autocracy, the author finds that former is positively related with inequality and later is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008876873
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Good versus Bad Political Institutions and Economic Welfare
Mamoon, Dawood - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The paper finds that countries which practice democracy are less prone to unequal outcomes especially when it comes to wage inequality and income inequality whereas autocracy is associated with higher level of wage inequalities but its impact on income inequalities are insignificant. Though...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009004156
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Want Economic Growth with Good Quality Institutions? Spend on Education
Mamoon, Dawood; Murshed, Mansoob - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The purpose of this paper is to compare the role of human capital accumulation measured by number of years of schooling with the relative contribution of institutional capacity to prosperity. We employ several concepts of institutional quality prevalent in the literature. We discover that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789820
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Some non Price Factors that Fend off Unemployment in Pakistan
Hassan, Muhammad shahid; Wajid, Ayesha; Mamoon, Dawood - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
share of total population on unemployment in Pakistan for the period from 1973 – 2010. Empirical findings of this study … suggest that financial development does reduce unemployment significantly in the short run and in the long run. Foreign direct … investment reduces unemployment in the long run but, it increases unemployment in the short run. Moreover; the urban population …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258937