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This article examines whether various macroeconomic policy shocks have different effects on overall unemployment rate … and the unemployment rate by different levels of education in Turkey. These effects are assessed for total, male and … female unemployment rates separately. To examine the relationship, a quarterly VAR model with a recursive order is employed …
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Although both economists and psychologists seek to identify determinants of heterogeneity in behavior, they use different concepts to capture them. In this review we first analyze the extent to which economic preferences and psychological concepts of personality – such as the Big Five and...
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unemployment to non-participation in equilibrium. In contrast, existing models typically maintain stationarity and appeal to … exogenous stochastic shocks to generate transitions from unemployment to non-participation. Our model is based on relaxing a … first implication of the model is a declining hazard from unemployment to employment, arising due to erosion of self …
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This paper investigates the relationship between labor force participation rate and unemployment rate in Turkey a … indicate that there is no long-run relationship between labor force participation and unemployment rates in Turkey. Thus …, unlike in the case of the developed countries the unemployment invariance hypothesis is supported in Turkey. …
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unemployment rates about the behavior of labor markets and the causes of joblessness are useful. …
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This paper investigates the nature of the output-employment relationship by using the Turkish quarterly data for the period 1988-2008. Even if we fail to find a long-run relationship between aggregate output and total employment, there are long-run relationships for the aggregate output with...
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Right-wing extremism is a serious problem in many societies. A prominent hypothesis states that unemployment plays a … previously not used data set which includes all officially recorded right-wing criminal acts in Germany. These data are recorded … fact a significant positive relation between unemployment and rightwing criminal activities. We show further that the big …
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Standard search theory assumes that individuals know, with certainty, how they compare to competing searchers in terms of ability. In contrast, we hypothesize that searchers are uncertain about relative ability, with important implications for search behavior. We test our hypotheses in a...
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transition probabilities between the labor market states of employment, unemployment and out-of-the labor force under Markovian … in unemployment rates of these groups. Second, we present estimates of gender-specific multinomial logit models to … have higher unemployment rates than urban men because they have lower probability of exiting unemployment for a job and …
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Experimental evidence has convincingly shown the existence of reciprocal inclinations, i.e., a tendency for people to respond in-kind to hostile or kind actions. Little is known, however, about: (i) the prevalence of reciprocity in the population, (ii) individual determinants of reciprocity,...
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