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Inside the Black Box of Temporary Help Agencies
Kvasnicka, Michael - EconWPA - 2003
Based on a new panel dataset created in close cooperation with one of the largest temporary help agencies (THAs) in Germany, this paper presents novel evidence on key aspects of temporary agency work, a segment of the labor market that despite its growing importance remains underresearched. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125786
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Inside the Black Box of Temporary Help Agencies
Kvasnicka, Michael - EconWPA - 2003
Based on a new panel dataset created in close cooperation with one of the largest temporary help agencies (THAs) in Germany, this paper presents novel evidence on key aspects of temporary agency work, a segment of the labor market that despite its growing importance remains underresearched. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125813
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Audit Sampling Microfinance Portfolio-at-Risk
Schreiner, Mark - EconWPA - 2001
This paper describes a statistical sample design to measure portfolio- at-risk in microfinance. It applies the design to the microfinance portfolio of Banco do Nordeste in Brazil. Statistical audit sampling requires no special knowledge of statistics and is useful for due- diligence inspections...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134588
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Maquiladora Prospects in a Global Economy
Jr, Thomas M Fullerton; Anda, Martha Patricia Barraza de - EconWPA - 2004
The in-bond manufacturing sector in Mexico, popularly known as the 'maquiladora' industry, suffered a number of job …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556047
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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125720
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Employment Effects of Different Innovation Activities: Microeconometric Evidence
Peters, Bettina - EconWPA - 2005
Using a recently developed model which allows to separate a few well- established employment effects of product and … process innovations, this paper reports new results on the relationship between innovation and employment growth in Germany …. The model is tailor-made for analysing firm-level employment effects of innovations using specific information provided by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118792
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Canaries and Vultures: A Quantitative History of Monetary Mismanagement in Brazil
Albuquerque, Pedro H.; Gouvea, Solange - EconWPA - 2005
During the last two decades of the twentieth century, Brazil went through a sequence of failed stabilization plans that tried to cope with an enduring hyperinflation. This paper uses a money demand model to evaluate monetary policies during those episodes. The consistency between the money...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124863
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I processi cumulativi nella crisi del debito degli anni 80: una lettura dai casi di Argentina, Brasile e Messico Cumulative processes in the 1980s debt crisis: an analysis from Arg...
Panizza, Andrea de - EconWPA - 2003
This paper analyses the 1980s Latin American debt crisis in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico and, in particular, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126347
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Sviluppo e riforme in Cile: apertura commerciale, fondi pensione e privatizzazione dei servizi/REFORMS AND DEVELOPMENT IN CHILE: Macro considerations on Int'l Trade, Pension Funds...
Panizza, Andrea de - EconWPA - 2003
This paper examines the growth pattern followed by the Chilean economy with reference to the macroeconomic reforms undertaken during the Pinochet regime, which were largely maintained by successive democratic administrations and partially reproduced by neighbouring countries. The focus is on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126348