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A dynamic panel data model is considered that contains possibly stochastic individual components and a common … hypothesis testing and interval estimation are discussed, with central limit theorems for feasibly bias-corrected estimates …
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This paper tests for the importance of cash flow on investment in fixed capital and R&D using firm-level panel data in …
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This paper analyzes differences in R&D spending and in the impact of R&D on productivity between German and UK firms. We confirm that German firms spend significantly larger amounts on R&D than their UK counterparts, even after controlling for firm size and industry effects. Using a dynamic...
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This paper is intended to make a contribution to the empirical literature explaining the rise of unemployment since the … successfully absorb the workers released from the agriculture and industry sector. The result is higher unemployment. …
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Average unemployment in Europe today is relatively high compared with OECD countries outside Europe. The majority of … countries in Europe today have lower unemployment than any OECD country outside Europe, including the US. These two fa cts are …), have very high unemployment and most of the rest have comparatively low unemployment. This variability is highly …
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This paper tests whether aggregate matching is consistent with unemployment being mainly due to search frictions or due … with reference to the design of optimal unemployment insurance programs. …
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allowing on-the-job search. We obtain that the elasticity of unemployment with respect to growth shrinks from 1.63 to 0 … search process than the unemployed. Thus, we show that, rather than contributing to unemployment, creative destruction …
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. The Beveridge curve depicts the steady state of the model, whereby inflows into unemployment are equal to the outflows …
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We study the response of domestic unemployment rates to shocks in total factor productivity for economies with high … by developed nations in the last twenty years, substantially amplify the impact on the domestic unemployment rate of …
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procyclical unemployment and a positively-sloped Beveridge curve. This paper presents a calibrated model which does indeed … generate countercyclical unemployment and a negatively-sloped Beveridge curve despite the presence of a participation margin. …
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