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Unemployment and re-employment of displaced workers

Murtough, Greg; Waite, Matthew - EconWPA - 2001

Examines the incidence and adjustment experiences of workers who are displaced by economic change. Since the mid-1970s, the aggregate annual rate of retrenchment has fluctuated in a counter-cyclical pattern around a relatively stable long-term trend of about 5 per cent. The paper shows that the...

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Productivity and the structure of employment

Barnes, Paula; Johnson, Rick; Kulys, Anthony; Hook, Scott - EconWPA - 2002

The paper examines the structure of employment defined by industry, skill, age, part-time and casual employment status … and the distribution of earnings. Employment patterns, and changes in employment profiles, are examined for differences …

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Social Networks in Determining Employment and Wages: Patterns, Dynamics, and Inequality

Calvo-Armengol, Antoni; Jackson, Matthew O. - EconWPA - 2002

social contacts. We show that an improvement in the employment status of either an agent's direct or indirect contacts leads … to an increase in the agent's employment probability and expected wages, in the sense of first order stochastic dominance … show that employment is positively correlated across time and agents, and the same is true for wages. Moreover …

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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 … employment and participation rates. We begin with a detailed analysis of the reasons of the rapid decrease of employment and …

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Do workers really benefit from their social networks?

Fontaine, Francois - EconWPA - 2003

increasing the number of workers embedded in the social networks can increase the unemployment rate and decrease workers welfare …

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Dual Economies and International Total Factor Productivity Differences

Chanda, Areendam; Dalgaard, Carl-Johan - EconWPA - 2003

This paper argues that a significant part of measured TFP diﬀerences across countries is attributable not to technological factors that aﬀect the entire economy neutrally, but rather, to variations in the structural composition of economies. In particular, the allocation of scarce inputs...

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DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF AGRICULTURAL TRADE LIBERALISATION

Walkenhorst, Peter - EconWPA - 2004

A reduction of trade barriers will influence the overall scale of agricultural activities, the structure of agricultural production in different countries, the mix of inputs and outputs, the production technology, and the regulatory framework. These adjustments, in turn, will impact on the...

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Supply Side Structural Change

Cordoba, Juan C. - EconWPA - 2002

The interest rate and the rate of economic growth are often regarded as roughly constant as economies grow. Moreover, the agricultural sector and rural population typically shrink. We show that an otherwise standard growth model that includes a backward and an advanced sector can account for...

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Asymptotics for Duration-Driven Long Range Dependent Processes

Hsieh, Mengchen; Hurvich, Clifford; Soulier, Philippe - EconWPA - 2004

We consider processes with second order long range dependence resulting from heavy tailed durations. We refer to this phenomenon as duration- driven long range dependence (DDLRD), as opposed to the more widely studied linear long range dependence based on fractional differencing of an $iid$...

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Detecting Structural Breaks: Exchange Rates in Transition Economies

Kocenda, Evzen - EconWPA - 2001

The aim of this paper is to provide evidence about the existence or non- existence of structural breaks in exchange rates of European transition economies. We used the testing procedure of Vogelsang (1997) that allows for detecting a break at an unknown date in the trend function of a dynamic...

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