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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 non-agricultural employment and sectoral employment levels for seven …
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This paper analyses theoretically and empirically how employment subsidies should be targeted. We contrast measures … efficiency" (AWE). Thereby we can identify policies that (a) improve employment and welfare, (b) do not raise earnings inequality …
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transmitted to the labor market. Between the second quarters of 2008 and 2009, employment fell by 3.8 percent. However, not all … the potential to entirely offset the effect of the recession on the likelihood of employment. This has important policy …
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the housing bust. An analysis of employment and unemployment rates over the past 15 years shows that immigrants' labor … market outcomes are more cyclical than those of natives. The greater cyclicality of immigrants' employment and unemployment …-sensitive employment outcomes than college-educated natives. …
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Observations on munition workers, most of them women, are organized to examine the relationship between their output … and their working hours. The relationship is nonlinear: below an hours threshold, output is proportional to hours; above a … threshold, output rises at a decreasing rate as hours increase. Implications of these results for the estimation of labor supply …
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change in competition. Higher substitutability increases welfare, output and productivity because resources shift towards the …
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-2004. We estimate duration models dealing with selection on unobservables. We use weighted exogenous sampling maximum …
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In this paper, we compile a unique historical dataset that records strike activity in the British engineering industry from 1920 to 1970. These data have the advantage of containing a fairly homogenous set of companies and workers, covering a long period with varying labour market conditions,...
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to employment. Then we decompose the difference in expected duration between the immigrant groups and the Dutch into the … the stock-sampling and the possible maximum duration for the transitions from unemployment, household care and disability …
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Using data from the first fourteen waves of the British Household Panel Survey, we estimate a discrete duration model … entry as well as unobserved heterogeneity. We find considerable duration dependence in region of residence in the raw data …
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