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Are women in the MENA region really that different from women in Europe? Globalization, conservative values and female labor market participation.
Fischer, Justina AV; Aydıner-Avşar, Nursel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
This article aims to compare women in the MENA region with women in Europe as to how globalization affects their conservative values and attitudes, and, thereby, their labor market participation. The authors define conservative values as both religious values and socio-political attitudes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011264810
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The impact of institutions on firms’ rejuvenation policies: Early retirement with severance pay versus simple lay-off. A Cross-European Analysis
Fischer, Justina AV; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Early retirement of workers is used by firms as means to rejuvenate their workforces. In principle, workers can either simply be laid off or can be offered an early retirement option combined with a financial bonus. However, dismissing masses of older workers may be detrimental to social peace...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008552803
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The Effect of Pension Generosity on Early Retirement: A Microdata Analysis for Europe from 1967 to 2004.
Fischer, Justina AV; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Using pseudo-panel microdata we show that pension generosity affects early retirement decisions. The changes in the average replacement rate and decreases in wealth accrual between 1967 and 2004 have caused an increase in early retirement probabilities from 16% to 63%.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005031396
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Expectations, employment and prices: a suggested interpretation of the new 'farmerian' economics
Guerrazzi, Marco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper aims at providing a critical assessment of the new ‘Farmerian’ economics, i.e. the recent Farmer’s attempt to provide a new micro-foundation of the General Theory grounded on modern search and business cycle theories. Specifically, I develop a theoretical model that summarizes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021709
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Increasing returns in matching and labour market dynamics: Comments on indeterminacy and search theory
Guerrazzi, Marco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
the social elasticity of the matching function with respect to unemployment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011157018
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A demand-driven search model with self-fulfilling expectations: The new `Farmerian' framework under scrutiny
Gelain, Paolo; Guerrazzi, Marco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
In this paper, we implement Bayesian econometric techniques to analyze a theoretical framework built along the lines of Farmer's micro-foundation of the General Theory. Specifically, we test the ability of a demand-driven search model with self-fulfilling expectations to match the behaviour of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109526
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On involuntary unemployment: notes on efficiency-wage competition
Guerrazzi, Marco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper introduces a model of efficiency-wage competition along the lines put forward by Hahn (1987). Specifically, I analyse a two-firm economy in which employers screen their workforce by means of increasing wage offers competing one another for high-quality employees. The main results are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109551
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The Cyclical Volatility of Equilibrium Unemployment and Vacancies: Evidence from Italy
Cardullo, Gabriele; Guerrazzi, Marco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
In this paper, we explore the fluctuations of unemployment and vacancies in the Italian labour market over the last … line with previous findings on the unemployment volatility puzzle, we find that the labour market tightness indicator is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111175
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Formal Institutions and Subjective Well-Being: Revisiting the Cross-Country Evidence
Bjornskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina AV - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
A long tradition in economics explores the association between the quality of formal institutions and economic … performance. The literature on the relationship between such institutions and happiness is, however, rather limited, and … inconclusive. In this paper, we revisit the findings from recent cross-country studies on the institutions-happiness association …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008596419
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Development of Direct Democracy in Swiss Cantons between 1997 and 2003
Fischer, Justina AV - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper describes institutions of direct democracy between 1997 and 2003 in 26 Swiss cantons (states), specifically …-legislative institutions are distinguished. This paper also provides calculations of the index and sub-indices of direct democracy for the … (1999) and Stutzer (1999) this paper includes the political institutions of the so-called Landsgemeinde cantons. Description …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005039975