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the evolution of two different forms of productivity (the productivity of labour and total factor productivity … theoretical underpinnings for most debates on the origins of the particular economic growth and productivity gains that have taken …
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In 2003, the French government decided to reform the system managing the different minimum wage regulations and the targeted reductions to employers' social security contributions. The main objective of the reform was to simplify the complex regulations that were created by the progressive...
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This paper is aimed to examine how individual unemployment is influenced both by location in a deprived neighborhood … public housing accommodation, type of neighborhood, and unemployment, the formal identification of the model relies on non …-linearities. Second, we take advantage of the location of the public housing sector in France, which allows us to use public housing …
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This paper analyses unemployment and employment dynamics in the urban Mexican labour market. We use amethod to … within the dependent concurrent risks model. We consider the exit from unemployment to the formal and informal sector; the … transitions between sectors; and the transitions from the two types of employment to unemployment. The model is estimated on …
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This paper questions the ability of the standard HOS model to explain changes in the labor shares (LS) of income in OECD countries. We use the Davis (1998) model where there is a wage rigidity in a sub-group of countries. We show that trade openness with developing countries reduces LS in...
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and by the importance of transitions through unemployment insurance and early-retirement schemes before access to normal … the situation that prevails in some other countries where normal ages are high, unemployment benefits low and early …
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productivity in Algeria is associated with higher unemployment than the sample average, though recent positive terms of trade … unemployment is higher in Algeria than in other countries. The results are robust to various panel econometric methods and …
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decline in the unemployment rate can be attributed to the increase in the labor force, while the number of job seekers remains …, which lowers the markup by 3 percentage points, results in a fall in the unemployment rate by 0.1 and 0.05 percentage point …
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This paper is aimed at examining how individual unemployment is influenced both by location in a deprived neighborhood … housing accommodation, type of neighborhood, and unemployment, thus accounting explicitely for correlation of unobservables … between the three behaviors. Second, we take advantage of the situation of the public housing sector in France, which allows …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008788812
In order to test for the effect of public housing occupancy on unemployment, we estimate a simultaneous probit model of … unemployment and public housing. On a first sample, we instrument public housing with the gender composition of children. On a … consists in measuring the correlation between unobservables that could explain the effect of public housing on unemployment. As …
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