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Real options effects on employment : does exchange rate uncertainty matter for aggregation?
Belke, Ansgar (contributor); Göcke, Matthias (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002035678
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Families in macroeconomics
Doepke, Matthias; Tertilt, Michele - 2016
Much of macroeconomics is concerned with the allocation of physical capital, human capital, and labor over time and across people. The decisions on savings, education, and labor supply that generate these variables are made within families. Yet the family (and decision-making in families) is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011454407
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Studying the NAIRU and its implications
Bozani, Vasiliki; Drydakis, Nick - 2011
, phenomena, and history. Given the key role that the Non-Accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemployment (NAIRU) has in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009516873
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Integrated macroeconomic production function for open economies : a new Schumpeterian Solow model for globalization
Welfens, Paul J. J. - 2016
The macroeconomic production function is a traditional key element of modern macroeconomics, as is the more recent knowledge production function which explains knowledge/patents by certain input factors such as research, foreign direct investment or international technology spillovers. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452235
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The economics of migrants' remittances
Rapoport, Hillel (contributor);  … - 2005
This chapter reviews the recent theoretical and empirical economic literature on migrants' remittances. It is divided between a microeconomic section on the determinants of remittances and a macroeconomic section on their growth effects. At the micro level we first present in a fully harmonized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002693330
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Labor search and matching in macroeconomics
Yashiv, Eran (contributor) - 2007
The labor search and matching model plays a growing role in macroeconomic analysis. This paper provides a critical, selective survey of the literature. Four fundamental questions are explored: how are unemployment, job vacancies, and employment determined as equilibrium phenomena? What...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003583927
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Public, private or both? : analysing factors influencing the labour supply of medical specialists
Cheng, Terence Chai; Kalb, Guyonne; Scott, Anthony - 2013
This paper investigates the factors influencing the allocation of time between public and private sectors by medical specialists. A discrete choice structural labour supply model is estimated, where specialists choose from a set of job packages that are characterised by the number of working...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010222311
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The impact of refugee crises on host labor markets : the case of the Syrian refugee crisis in Turkey
Akgündüz, Yusuf Emre; Berg, Marcel van den; Hassink, … - 2015
The civil war in Syria has culminated into major refugee crises in its neighboring countries. By the end of 2013 more than half a million people were seeking shelter in cities and refugee camps in Turkey. We analyze how the Syrian refugee influx in Turkey has affected food and housing prices,...
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Examining the impact of macro-economic conditions on income inequality
Jäntti, Markus; Jenkins, Stephen - 2001
and inflation rates. Building on the lessons from recent advances in time-series econometrics, we suggest instead that one …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011403817
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The role of the exchange rate regime in the process of real and nominal convergence
D'Adamo, Gaetano; Rovelli, Riccardo - 2013
inflation observed in the European catching-up countries, which suggests that other factors may be at play. In these and related … non-traded sectors) on the dual inflation differential is more than twice as large as that in the "flexible" countries. We … conclude that, in a catching-up country, premature euro adoption may foster excess inflation, beyond that which is to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010191206