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Galeotti, Marzio; Maccini, Louis J.; Schiantarelli, Fabio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

inventory behavior to include a detailed specification of the role of labor input in the production process and of the costs …-logarithmic form, and derive an estimable system of Euler equations for inventories and employment with implied cross … production process and the definition of labor input as the product of employment and effective hours worked per worker. …

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Redistribution Policy and Inequality Reduction in OECD Countries: What Has Changed in Two Decades?

Immervoll, Herwig; Richardson, Linda - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

We use a range of data sources to assess if, and to what extent, government redistribution policies have slowed or accelerated the trend towards greater income disparities in the past 20-25 years. In most countries, inequality among "non-elderly" households has widened during most phases of the...

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The Global Economic Crisis: Long-Term Unemployment in the OECD

Junankar, Pramod N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This paper analyses the impact of the global economic crisis on unemployment and long term unemployment in the OECD. It uses simple econometric models using panel data (quarterly) and time series data. In general, we find that long term unemployment increases with the unemployment rate, there is...

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Goerke, Laszlo; Madsen, Jakob B. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

We show that a stronger earnings relationship of unemployment compensation reduces wages and increases employment in an economy in which wages are determined by a trade union that maximises the rent from unionisation. The opposite result applies for a utilitarian union. Using manufacturing and...

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Minimum Wages, Minimum Labour Costs and the Tax Treatment of Low-Wage Employment

Immervoll, Herwig - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

International comparisons of minimum-wage levels have largely focused on the gross value of minimum wages, ignoring the effects of taxation on both labour costs and the net income of employees. This paper presents estimates of the tax burdens facing minimum-wage workers. These are used as a...

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A Cross-Country Study of Union Membership

Blanchflower, David G. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

This paper examines changes in unionization that have occurred over the last decade or so using individual level micro data on twenty seven of the thirty OECD countries, with particular emphasis on Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. Micro-data is also used to model union...

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Measuring Globalization

Andersen, Torben M.; Herbertsson, Tryggvi Thor - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

The multivariate technique of factor analysis is used to combine several indicators of economic integration and international transactions into a single measure or index of globalization. The index is an alternative to the simple measure of openness based on trade, and it produces a ranking of...

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Measurement and Analysis of Child Well-Being in Middle and High Income Countries

Heshmati, Almas; Bajalan, Chemen S.J.; Tausch, Arno - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Starting from the recent UNICEF publications on child poverty in the developed countries, which received a wide audience in the political and scientific world, in this paper we further analyze the UNICEF study data base and present three composite indices that are multidimensional and...

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Does the Recent Success of Some OECD Countries in Lowering their Unemployment Rates Lie in the Clever Design of their Labour Market Reform?

Belot, Michèle; Ours, Jan C. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

The development of the unemployment rate differs substantially between OECD countries. In recent years some countries experienced a mild increase, other countries had a stable unemployment rate, while there are also ‘successful’ countries in which the unemployment rate decreased a lot. A...

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Australia: The Miracle Economy

Junankar, Pramod N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Most of the countries of the OECD are still suffering from the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) (or as the Americans call it the Great Recession), but the Australian economy appears to be powering ahead. It is a miracle economy! Unlike most of the OECD countries, Australia did not even have a...

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