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Electoral uncertainty, fiscal policies & growth : theory and evidence from Germany, the UK and the US

Economides, George (contributor) - 2003

economic growth. The model is estimated using quarterly data for Germany, the UK and the US from 1960 to 1999. Our econometric …

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Will increased wages reduce shortage of nurses? : A panel data analysis of nurses' labour supply

Askildsen, Jan Erik; Baltagi, Badi H.; Holmås, Tor Helge - 2002

Shortage of nurses is a problem in several countries. It is an unsettled question whether increasing wages constitute a viable policy for extracting more labour supply from nurses. In this paper we use a unique matched panel data set of Norwegian nurses covering the period 1993-1998 to estimate...

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A panel data study of physicians' labor supply : the case of Norway

Baltagi, Badi H.; Bratberg, Espen; Holmås, Tor Helge - 2003

provides. We estimate the labor supply of physicians employed at hospitals in Norway, using personnel register data merged with … period 1993-97. The methods of estimation are GMM and system GMM. We reject the static model in favor of a dynamic model and …

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Labour supply effects of an early retirement programme

Brinch, Christian - 2001

In 1988, an early retirement program (AFP) was introduced in Norway for the 66-year-old. Since then, AFP has gradually …

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Wage inequality and the effort incentive effects of technological progress

Leith, Campbell B.; Li, Chol-won - 2001

To explain the rise in the college wage premium in developed economies in the past decades, the present paper examines the effects of technological progress on workers' effort incentives, which determine the effective labor supply. Five effort incentive effects of technological progress are...

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Real wages and business cycle asymmetries : presented at CESifo conference "Academic Use of ifo Survey Data", december 2003

Woitek, Ulrich - 2004

and Germany to condition the relationship between real wages and business fluctuations on the phase of the cycle, it is … demonstrated that the inconclusive evidence is not only caused by measurement problems, estimation method and composition bias as … general, the evidence for countercyclical wages is stronger in Germany than for the US, but taken together there is no clear …

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Significance of development stage theory for explaining industrial growth pattern between Asian NICs and selected advanced economics [economies]

Nam, Chang-woon - 2002

like Japan, West Germany and the US. …

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Unobserved components models for quarterly German GDP

Flaig, Gebhard - 2002

In this paper, an Unobserved Components Model is employed to decompose German real GDP into the trend, cycle and seasonal components and the working day effect. The most important findings are: 1) The growth rate of potential output declined from 4.2 per cent in the sixties to 1.4 per cent at...

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Second-best properties of implicit social security taxes : theory and evidence

Fenge, Robert; Uebelmesser, Silke; Werding, Martin - 2002

This paper investigates the inter-temporal structure of implicit taxes arise in unfunded pension schemes. We demonstrate that these tax rates are declining over the life cycle. Using German micro-data for men and married women we estimate periodic wage elasticities of labour supply in order to...

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Estimating the output gap using business survey data : a bivariate structural time series model for the German economy

Flaig, Gebhard; Plötscher, Claudia - 2000

This paper deals with the estimation of the output gap. We use uni- and bivariate unobserved components models in order … ifo business assessment variable as an indicator for the cycle the estimation of the output gap is much more precise and …

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