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Causal Effects of Monetary Shocks: Semiparametric Conditional Independence Tests with a Multinomial Propensity Score
Angrist, Joshua; Kuersteiner, Guido M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
effects is based on a selection-on-observables assumption, non-causality amounts to the conditional independence of outcomes … a time series setting. This leads to a generalized definition of Sims (1980) causality. A technical contribution is the …
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The Real Exchange Rate and Growth in Zimbabwe: Does the Currency Regime Matter?
Brixiova, Zuzana; Ncube, Mthuli - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Zimbabwe faces growth and external competitiveness challenges, as indicated by its low trend growth and investment … 2008 economic collapse and under the current multicurrency regime. While overvaluation hampers GDP growth, as well as … growth and employment in export sectors, we have not found that undervaluation would raise it. Replacing the multicurrency …
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Unemployment and Labor Force Participation in Turkey
Tansel, Aysit; Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin; Aksoy, Emre - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
This paper investigates the relationship between labor force participation rate and unemployment rate in Turkey a … developing country. Cointegration analysis is carried out for the aggregate and gender and age specific series. The findings … indicate that there is no long-run relationship between labor force participation and unemployment rates in Turkey. Thus …
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Ethnic Discrimination in China's Internet Job Board Labor Market
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We conduct a large‐scale field experiment to investigate how Chinese firms respond to job applications from ethnic minority and Han applicants for jobs posted on a large Chinese Internet job board. We denote ethnicity by means of names that are typically Han Chinese and distinctively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010990933
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FDI Impact on Firm Performance in Enlarged Europe: Evidence from a Meta-Regression Analysis
Bruno, Randolph Luca; Cipollina, Maria - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
ultimately on economic growth in EU, but it is limited in magnitude. Moreover, the effect of FDI on growth is stronger for New EU …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884079
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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 asymmetries in the convergence process of the RULCs and its components – real wages, capital intensity, and technology – are uncovered through decomposition and cluster analyses. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884247
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A Vibrant European Labor Market with Full Employment
Ritzen, Jo; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We sketch a visionary strategy for Europe in which full employment is quickly regained by 2020, where income inequality is reduced and the economies are more sustainable. We name this scenario "vibrant." It is contrasted with what would happen if present policies continue within the European...
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The State of University Policy for Progress in Europe
Hoareau, Cécile; Ritzen, Jo; Marconi, Gabriele - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Higher education contributes to economic innovation. This study measures and compares the extent to which national governments’ policies foster this contribution across Europe. The study stresses the relevance of policies which are ‘empowering’ for higher education institutions, or in...
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Informal Workers across Europe: Evidence from 30 Countries
Hazans, Mihails - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
The European Social Survey data are used to analyze informal employment at the main job in 30 countries. Overall, informality decreases from South to West to East to North. However, dependent work without contract is more prevalent in Eastern Europe than in the West, except for Ireland, the UK...
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The French Unhappiness Puzzle: The Cultural Dimension of Happiness
Senik, Claudia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This article sheds light on the important differences in self-declared happiness across countries of equivalent affluence. It hinges on the different happiness statements of natives and immigrants in a set of European countries to disentangle the influence of objective circumstances versus...
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