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Does Human Capital Protect Workers against Exogenous Shocks? South Africa in the 2008-2009 Crisis
Leung, Ron; Stampini, Marco; Vencatachellum, Désiré - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
The financial and economic crisis of 2008 and 2009 has taken its toll on the South African economy. The economy contracted for the first time since 1998, and entered recession during the fourth quarter of 2008. The GDP contraction was soon transmitted to the labor market. Between the second...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008514864
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Horizontal Mismatch in the Labour Market of Graduates: The Role of Signalling
Domadenik, Polona; Farčnik, Daša; Pastore, Francesco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
education for a post-transition economy (Slovenia). Second, we test the signal of HE institutions and above average study …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010990942
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Do Market Pressures Induce Economic Efficiency: The Case of Slovenian Manufacturing, 1994-2001
Orazem, Peter F.; Vodopivec, Milan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
longitudinal data set on all manufacturing firms in Slovenia over the period 1994-2001, this study analyzes how firm efficiency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822655
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Slovakia: A Catching Up Euro Area Member In and Out of the Crisis
Fidrmuc, Jarko; Klein, Caroline; Price, Robert; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
are less positive. This development is compared with Estonia and Slovenia, two other small and very open economies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010627856
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Worker Displacement during the Transition: Experience from Slovenia
Orazem, Peter; Vodopivec, Milan; Wu, Ruth - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
The transition to market in Slovenia created labor displacements that were on par or greater than that experienced in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566439
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Current Account Imbalances and Structural Adjustment in the Euro Area: How to Rebalance Competitiveness
Zemanek, Holger; Belke, Ansgar; Schnabl, Gunther - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Low international competitiveness of a set of euro area countries, which have become evident by large current account deficits and rising risk premiums on government bonds, is one of the most challenging economic policy issues for Europe. We analyse the role of private restructuring and public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008632737
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Understanding Inter-Industry Wage Structures in the Euro Area
Genre, Véronique; Kohn, Karsten; Momferatou, Daphne - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper focuses on the euro area wage structure and its potential determinants from a sectoral viewpoint. Merging information from the OECD Structural Analysis database with data from the EU Labour Force Survey, we construct a cross-country panel of 22 industries in 8 euro area countries for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703494
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Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity in Europe: An Analysis of European Micro Data from the ECHP 1994-2001
Knoppik, Christoph; Beissinger, Thomas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
This paper substantially extends the limited available evidence on existence and extent of downward nominal wage rigidity in the European Union and the Euro Area. For this purpose we develop an econometric multi-country model based on Kahn’s (1997) histogram-location approach and apply it to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822909
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Migration as an Adjustment Mechanism in the Crisis? A Comparison of Europe and the United States
Jauer, Julia; Liebig, Thomas; Martin, John P.; Puhani, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
disparities, in particular within the Eurozone where there is no exchange-rate mechanism available to play this role. We shed some … be absorbed by migration within a year. However, in the Eurozone the reaction mainly stems from migration of third …-country nationals. Even within the group of Eurozone nationals, a significant part of the free mobility stems from immigrants from third …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884205
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Real Unit Labour Costs in Eurozone Countries: Drivers and Clusters
Ordóñez, Javier; Sala, Hector; Silva, José I. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We examine the trajectories of the real unit labour costs (RULCs) in a selection of Eurozone economies. Strong …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884247