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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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account for the endogeneity of public housing. We estimate a simultaneous probit model of unemployment and public housing. On …
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The aim of this paper is to test for the influence of neighborhood deprivation on individual unemployment probability … in the case of Lyon (France). We estimate a bivariate probit model of unemployment and location in a deprived … consists in making hypotheses as to the correlation between the unobservables that determine unemployment and the unobservables …
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This paper explores the impact of policies and institutions on unemployment in OECD countries over the past decades …. Reduced-form unemployment equations, consistent with standard wage setting/price-setting models, are estimated using cross …-country/time-series data from 21 OECD countries over the period 1982-2003. In the “average” OECD country, high and long-lasting unemployment …
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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 … effect on unemployment. However, living within the 35% more deprived neighborhoods does increase the unemployment probability …
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The present paper examines the meaning and usefulness of the concept of a New Economy. This construct, which first began to appear in the media in the mid-1990s, is utilised today with a variety of definitions and intentions. Having identified three possible denotations or orientations relating...
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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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This paper examines the causality relationship between immigration, unemployment and economic growth of the host … 1980-2005 period for 22 OECD countries, we find that, only in Portugal, unemployment negatively causes immigration, while … in any country, immigration does not cause unemployment. On the other hand, our results show that, in four countries …
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This paper examines the influence of political ideology on economic growth in the French democracy since 1871. It does so by addressing three main issues : the property and the reliability of a political ideology index in the long-run, the robustness of the relationship between ideology and...
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