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Inside the black box: Labour market institutions, wage formation and unemployment in Italy

Dell'Aringa, Carlo; Lucifora, Claudio - 2000

share of long-term unemployment. The rise in unemployment and its persistently high level have been blamed, both in Italy … of unemployment. An additional dimension of "segmentation" also characterises the Italian labour market, notably the 30 … percent's unemployment rate in the South (6 percent in the North) and the presence of a large share of the labour force …

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Where next for monetary policy? Lessons from the financial crisis and the pandemic

Minford, Patrick - 2023

Monetary developments of recent decades began with much promise with inflation targeting by independent central banks; the financial crisis of 2007 ushered in a period of great monetary instability. There are lessons for a return to more stability. Central banks need to stabilize money supply...

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Modelling the effects of Brexit on the British economy

Minford, Patrick; Zhu, Zheyi - 2023

We estimate the short run effects of Brexit border disruption on the UK economy. We estimate a structural VAR for the UK where Brexit effects are identified by the dates of Brexit events, the referendum and the exit from the single market. We find evidence of short run effects of Brexit:...

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Effects of the enlargement of EU on trade and the environment

Zhu, Xueqin; van Ierland, Ekko - 2001

With the gradual accession of some Central Eastern European Countries (CEECs) to the EU, international trade between EU and CEECs and the related environmental problems will definitely change because of the free trade and the mobility of production factors (labour and capital) within the EU....

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Lessons from the Southern enlargement of the EU for the environmental dimensions of Eastern enlargement in particular for Poland

Kuik, Onno J.; Oosterhuis, Frans H. - 2001

This paper analyses the environmental dimensions the past accession of Greece, Portugal and Spain to the EU in order to draw lessons for the current accession of countries of Central and Eastern Europe. A distinction is made between scale, composition and technique effects. Two major conclusions...

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Labor taxes, wage setting and the relative wage effect

Brunello, Giorgio; Parisi, Maria Luisa; Sonedda, Daniela - 2002

Public finance solutions to high unemployment in Europe have often been advocated during the past years. With … unemployment concentrated among the young and unskilled, it has been suggested that the reduction of social security contributions … for low wage earnings, financed by a carbon tax, could yield a double dividend, the reduction of unemployment and the …

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Trade in differentiated product, trading regimes and unemployment

Moutos, Thomas - 1997

contraction of output and the emergence of unemployment. A model in which trade is conducted in vertically differentiated products … unemployment more than just a short-run phenomenon. …

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Immigration, offshoring and American jobs

Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; Peri, Giovanni; Wright, Greg C. - 2010

How many 'American jobs' have U.S.-born workers lost due to immigration and offshoring? Or, alternatively, is it possible that immigration and offshoring, by promoting cost-savings and enhanced efficiency in firms, have spurred the creation of jobs for U.S. natives? We consider a multi-sector...

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Tourism, Jobs, Capital Accumulation and the Economy: A Dynamic Analysis

Sgro, Pasquale M.; Chao, Chi-Chur; Hazari, Bharat R.; … - 2005

This paper examines the effects of tourism in a dynamic model of trade on unemployment, capital accumulation and …

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On the cyclicality of real wages and wage differentials

Otrok, Christopher; Pourpourides, Panayiotis M. - 2008

comovement of real wages is related to a common factor that exhibits a mild correlation with the national unemployment rate. Our …

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