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Esfahani, Hadi Salehi; Mohaddes, Kamiar; Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2009

regularity conditions and assuming a Cobb Douglas production function, it is shown that (log) oil exports enter the long run …

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On the impact of oil prices on sectoral inflation : evidence from world's top oil exporters and importers

Ben Salem, Leila; Nouira, Ridha; Rault, Christophe - 2024

This paper investigates the impact of oil price variations on sectoral inflation for a sample of 10 top oil importing and exporting countries. Specifically, we analyze the effects of oil prices on the consumer price index using monthly data spanning the July 2009 to February 2021 period. Two...

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Cyclical and market determinants of involuntary part-time employment

Valletta, Robert G.; Bengali, Leila; Van der List, Catherine - 2016

We examine the determinants of involuntary part-time employment, focusing on variation associated with the business cycle and variation attributable to more persistent structural features of the labor market. Our theoretical framework distinguishes between workers' decision to seek part-time...

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Inventories, employment and hours

Galeotti, Marzio; Maccini, Louis J.; Schiantarelli, Fabio - 2002

inventory behavior to include a detailed specification of the role of labor input in the production process and of the costs …-logarithmic form, and derive an estimable system of Euler equations for inventories and employment with implied cross … production process and the definition of labor input as the product of employment and effective hours worked per worker. …

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Flexibility at the margin and labor market volatility in OECD countries

Sala, Hector (contributor); Silva, José Ignacio (contributor) - 2008

We study whether segmented labor markets with flexibility at the margin (e.g., just affecting fixed-term employees) can achieve similar volatility than fully deregulated labor markets. Flexibility at the margin produces a gap in separation costs among matched workers that cause fixed-term...

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Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis : religion and female employment over time

Fischer, Justina A. V.; Pastore, Francesco - 2015

This study analyses whether the role of religion for employment of married women in Europe has changed over time and along women's life cycles. Using information on 44'000 married European women from the World Values Survey 1981-2013, we find that in OECD-Europe there is little difference among...

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Immigration policy, assimilation of immigrants and natives' sentiments towards immigrants : evidence from 12 OECD-countries

Bauer, Thomas K.; Lofstrom, Magnus; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2000

As in the U.S. and Canada, migration is a controversial issue in Europe. This paper explores the possibility that immigration policy may affect the labor market assimilation of immigrants and hence natives' sentiments towards immigrants. It first reviews the assimilation literature in economics...

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Does the recent success of some OECD countries in lowering their unemployment rates lie in the clever design of their labour market reforms?

Belot, Michèle; Ours, Jan C. van - 2000

The development of the unemployment rate differs substantially between OECD countries. In recent years some countries experienced a mild increase, other countries had a stable unemployment rate, while there are also 'successful' countries in which the unemployment rate decreased a lot. A common...

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Australia: the miracle economy

Junankar, Pramod N. - 2013

Most of the countries of the OECD are still suffering from the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) (or as the Americans call it the Great Recession), but the Australian economy appears to be powering ahead. It is a miracle economy! Unlike most of the OECD countries, Australia did not even have a...

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Are unemployment rates in OECD countries stationary? : evidence from univariate and panel unit root tests

Khraief, Naceur; Shahbaz, Muhammad; Heshmati, Almas; … - 2015

This paper revisits the dynamics of unemployment rate for 29 OECD countries over the period of 1980-2013. Numerous empirical studies of the dynamics of unemployment rate are carried out within a linear framework. However, unemployment rate can show nonlinear behaviour as a result of business...

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