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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 establishments to assess the extent to which hours of work are affected by individual or establishment characteristics - observed as well as unobserved. We argue that recent research...
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Effects of Business Cycles on Labour Market Assimilation of Immigrants
Aydemir, Abdurrahman - EconWPA - 2003
along with employment outcomes are explored. The study uses 19 annual cross-sections of the Survey of Consumer Finances … conditions at the time of labour market entry have adverse impacts on both labour force participation and employment. With the …
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
along with employment outcomes are explored. The study uses 19 annual cross-sections of the Survey of Consumer Finances … conditions at the time of labour market entry have adverse impacts on both labour force participation and employment. With the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408360
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Employment in Poland 2005
Bukowski, Maciej; Lewandowski, Piotr; Magda, Iga; … - EconWPA - 2005
present a comprehensive statistical and econometric analysis of employment, unemployment and participation in Poland in the … employment and participation rates. We begin with a detailed analysis of the reasons of the rapid decrease of employment and … on structural mismatch between labour demand and labour supply in Poland. We find that the employment gap between Poland …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556757
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Pig and pigmeat industries: safeguard action against imports
Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2001
On 26 June 1998 the Treasurer referred the question of whether safeguard action is warranted against imports of meat of swine, frozen, falling within tariff sub-heading 0203.29 of the Australian Customs Tariff. The Productivity Commission is to report within 140 days (or earlier) and is to hold...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556418
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076681
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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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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 …-Mart entry increases retail employment by 100 jobs in the year of entry. Half of this gain disappears over the next five years as … employment declines by approximately 20 jobs due to Wal-Mart's vertical integration. No spillover effect is detected in retail …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125732