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Energy Consumption, Economic Growth and CO2 Emissions in Middle East and North African Countries

Arouri, Mohamed El Hedi; Ben Youssef, Adel; M'henni, Hatem - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

dioxide emissions, energy consumption, and real GDP for 12 Middle East and North African Countries (MENA) over the period 1981 … interestingly, we show that real GDP exhibits a quadratic relationship with CO2 emissions for the region as a whole. However …

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Exploring the Causality Links between Energy and Employment in African Countries

Arouri, Mohamed El Hedi; Ben Youssef, Adel; M'henni, Hatem - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

in Tunisia, Cameroun, Zambia and Ethiopia is found. A unidirectional causality from energy use to employment is found in …

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Survey of Models on Demand, Customer Base-Line and Demand Response and Their Relationships in the Power Market

Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

The increasing use of demand-side management as a tool to reliably meet electricity demand at peak time has stimulated interest among researchers, consumers and producer organizations, managers, regulators and policymakers, This research reviews the growing literature on models used to study...

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Do Business Visits Cause Productivity Growth?

Tani, Massimiliano; Joyeux, Roselyne - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

The production and diffusion of knowledge have increasingly been seen as potential causes of the observed international differences in total factor productivity and, in turn, as possible sources of economic growth. This paper presents the results of a causality study between business visits and...

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Output-Employment Relationship across Sectors: A Long- versus Short-Run Perspective

Sahin, Afsin; Tansel, Aysit; Berument, Hakan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

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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Identifying Regional Labor Demand Shocks Using Sign Restrictions

Juessen, Falko; Linnemann, Ludger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We propose using sign restrictions to identify regional labor demand shocks in a panel VAR of US federal states. Observed migration responds significantly, but less persistently than the residual-based migration measure constructed by Blanchard and Katz (1992).

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Identifying the Substitution Effect of Temporary Agency Employment

Jahn, Elke J.; Weber, Enzo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper fills a gap in the literature by investigating whether temporary agency employment substitutes regular employment. To take into account the interaction between the two employment forms, we identify a SVAR model with correlated innovations by volatility regimes. We show that a positive...

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The Dynamics of Entrepreneurship: Hysteresis, Business Cycles and Government Policy

Congregado, Emilio; Golpe, Antonio A.; Parker, Simon C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This paper estimates an unobserved components model to explore the macro dynamics of entrepreneurship in Spain and the US. We ask whether entrepreneurship exhibits hysteresis, defined as a macro dynamic structure in which cyclical fluctuations have persistent effects on the natural rate of...

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Inflation, Minimum Wage and Other Wages: An Econometric Study on French Macroeconomic Data

L'Horty, Yannick; Rault, Christophe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

This paper examines the set of interdependences between the formation of wages, prices and the minimum wage (SMIC) through a vectorial error correction model estimated on French quarterly macroeconomic data covering the 1970-1/1999-4 period. Two periods are distinguished: the period of inflation...

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China's Emergence in the World Economy and Business Cycles in Latin America

Cesa-Bianchi, Ambrogio; Pesaran, Hashem; Rebucci, Alessandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

world shows that the long-term impact of a China GDP shock on the typical Latin American economy has increased by three … times since mid-1990s. At the same time, the long-term impact of a US GDP shock has halved, while the transmission of shocks … to Latin America and the rest of emerging Asia (excluding China and India) GDP has not undergone any significant change …

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