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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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Positive assortative matching implies that high productivity workers and firms match together. However, there is almost no evidence of a positive correlation between the worker and firm contributions in two-way fixed-effects wage equations. This could be the result of a bias caused by standard...
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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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unemployment rates about the behavior of labor markets and the causes of joblessness are useful. …
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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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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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In a sharp break with past German research, some recent estimates have suggested that plants with work councils have 25 to 30 per cent higher productivity than their works-councilfree counterparts. Such findings can only serve to buttress the strong theoretical and policy interest in the German...
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Using a large panel data set we investigate whether works councils act as sand or grease in the operation of German firms. Stochastic production frontier analysis indicates that establishments with and without a works council do not exhibit significant differences in efficiency.
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context of Germany where the works council is the analogue of workplace unionism. Using parametric and nonparametric methods …
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trade. This paper uses a large and rich set of linked employer-employee data from Germany to demonstrate that these premia …
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