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Trends in the Youth Labour Market in Developing and Transition Countries

O'Higgins, Niall - EconWPA - 2005

on problems related to youth employment and unemployment. This paper aims to provide a contribution to debate on the …

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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 … with some policy prescriptions. At the moment Poland exhibits the highest unemployment rate in OECD and one of the lowest … increase of unemployment in 1998- 1999 and its later persistence. We find that the supply-side characteristics and sectoral …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556757

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...

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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...

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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 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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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

in the participation rates and the reduction in unemployment rates, the pace of labour force and employment growth in the …

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Job flows, worker flows and mismatching in Veneto manufacturing. 1982-1996

Tattara, Giuseppe; Valentini, Marco - EconWPA - 2005

establishments in a highly industrialized region in the North- East of Italy, the Veneto. Our results have relevance for models of …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125816

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