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Trends in the Youth Labour Market in Developing and Transition Countries
O'Higgins, Niall - EconWPA - 2005
This paper looks at youth labour market trends concentrating on developing and transition countries. Questions relating to the integration of young people into decent work have in recent times once again begun to occupy a central position in Government Policy issues. Recently co-ordinated...
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What is Left to Residual Claimants? The Empirics of Income Reported by Entrepreneurs and Workers
Poutvaara, Panu; Tuomala, Juha - EconWPA - 2004
Using Finnish panel data, we study how entrepreneurs differ from workers in education and income dynamics. We find that … workers have higher median income in all educational groups. Without additional controls, entrepreneurs have higher average … switch from entrepreneurship to workers, while education does not explain, in a statistically significant level, switching …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556770
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Evaluating the effect of tax deductions on training
Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel - EconWPA - 2002
wages. We find that the training rate of workers just above 40 is about 15-20 percent higher than the training rate of … 40 years or older. This causes a discontinuity in a firm's cost of training an employee. We exploit this discontinuity to … identify two effects: the effect of the tax deduction on training participation, and the effect of training participation on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125714
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ISH: Hacia una Medida de la Satisfacción de los Hogares desde el Punto de Vista de la Oferta de Trabajo.
Marcelo, Darwin; Villa, Juan Miguel - EconWPA - 2004
El estudio de las preferencias es uno de los temas menos tratados por la econometría aplicada. En el presente artículo se pretende realizar una aproximación translogarítimica de las preferencias por medio de la construcción de un Índice de Satisfacción de los Hogares (ISH) con base al...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076523
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Heterogeneity and Aggregation in the Labor Market: Implications for Aggregate Preference Shifts
Chang, Yongsung; Kim, Sun-Bin - EconWPA - 2004
The cyclical behavior of hours worked, wages, and consumption does not conform with the prediction of the representative agent with standard preferences. The residual in the intra-temporal first-order condition for commodity consumption and leisure is often viewed as a failure of labor-market...
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Is the Euro Working? The Euro and European Labour Markets
Silvia, Stephen - EconWPA - 2005
Now that four years have passed since the introduction of the euro as a commercial currency, it has become possible to assess many arguments made in the abstract during the 1990s about the implications of monetary union. This contribution does precisely that. In brief, the euro zone still falls...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124952
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An interaction model for livestock farming and steppe ecosystem // “Mathematical Modeling of Ecological Systems” Almaty: Daik-Press, 2003. – 160 p. Abstracts. P.26.
Demberel S.; Olenev, Nicholas; Pospelov, Igor - EconWPA - 2003
This work builds a macro model for livestock farming based on aggregation of initial micro description for rational control of total number of vintage livestock (age cohorts). All variety of animal kinds is reduced to one by given recount coefficients. An optimal problem on co-hort total number...
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Is Variation in Hours of Work Driven by Supply or Demand? Evidence from Finnish Manufacturing Industries
Böckerman, Petri; Jäntti, Markus - EconWPA - 2005
This paper uses panel data from 1989 to 1995 on blue-collar workers in Finnish manufacturing industries and their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125720
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Job Creation or Destruction? Labor-Market Effects of Wal-Mart Expansion
Basker, Emek - EconWPA - 2003
This paper estimates the effect of Wal-Mart expansion on retail employment at the county level. Using an instrumental-variables approach to correct for both measurement error in entry dates and endogeneity of the timing of entry, I find that Wal-Mart entry increases retail employment by 100 jobs...
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Long-Term Labour Force Projections for the 25 EU Member States:A set of data for assessing the economic impact of ageing
Carone, Giuseppe - EconWPA - 2005
This paper presents the methodology and results of labour force projections over the long term (until 2050) for each of the 25 EU Member States. These projections were undertaken in order to provide the background technical inputs for the assessment of the potential economic and fiscal impact of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125752