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High and low prices and the range in the European stock markets : a long-memory approach
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alaña, Luis A.; Poza, Carlos - 2019
market indices are analysed: DAX30 (Germany), FTSE100 (UK), CAC40 (France), FTSE MIB40 (Italy) and IBEX35 (Spain). In all …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022262
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Oil prices and GCC stock markets : new evidence from smooth transition models
Cheikh, Nidhaleddine Ben; Ben Naceur, Samy; Kanaan, … - 2018
Our paper examines the effect of oil price changes on Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) stock markets using nonlinear smooth transition regression (STR) models. Contrary to conventional wisdom, our empirical results reveal that GCC stock markets do not have similar sensitivities to oil price...
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Exports, unemployment and the welfare state
Janeba, Eckhard (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003497526
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The employment effect of reforming a public employment agency
Launov, Andrey; Wälde, Klaus - 2015
unemployment benefits reduce unemployment? Using a recent labour market reform in Germany as background, we find that an enhanced …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011309228
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The minimum wage from a two-sided perspective
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - 2014
This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective, in which firms' job offer and workers' job acceptance decisions are disentangled. Minimum wages reduce job offer incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010371904
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Minimum wages and the labor market effects of immigration
Edo, Anthony; Rapoport, Hillel - 2017
We exploit the non-linearity in the level of minimum wages across US States created by the coexistence of federal and state regulations to investigate how minimum wages affect the labor market impact of immigration. We find that the effects of immigration on labor market outcomes of native...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011669546
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Labor markets during the covid-19 crisis : a preliminary view
Coibion, Olivier; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Weber, Michael - 2020
We use a repeated large-scale survey of households in the Nielsen Homescan panel to characterize how labor markets are being affected by the covid-19 pandemic. We document several facts. First, job loss has been significantly larger than implied by new unemployment claims: we estimate 20 million...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012206097
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"The double dividend of Training" : labor market effects of work-related continuous education in Switzerland
Denzler, Stefan; Ruhose, Jens; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2022
This paper presents the first longitudinal estimates of the effect of work-related training on labor market outcomes in Switzerland. Using a novel dataset that links official census data on adult education to longitudinal register data on labor market outcomes, we apply a regression-adjusted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013413337
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Labour market counter-reforms in OECD countries : conditional impact on output and employment growth
Wiese, Rasmus; Jalles, João Tovar; Haan, Jakob de - 2024
This paper empirically examines the impact of labour market counter-reforms on real GDP per capita and employment growth in 25 OECD countries between 1973 and 2012. We use a novel, narrative-based dataset of reform indicators and apply the local projections approach. We consider not only...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014578524
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Hysteresis in West German unemployment reconsidered
Reutter, Michael - 2000
The view that high unemployment in West Germany and other European countries is caused by a path dependence effect - or … is argued that in a cointegration framework it is reasonable to define hysteresis as the absence of weak exogeneity of … the explanatory variables. Building on a cointeg ration model of the employment rate in West Germany, I find only weak …
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