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Determinants of workers’ remittances: evidence from the European Neighbouring Region
Schiopu, Ioana; Siegfried, Nikolaus - 2006
Workers’ remittances have become the second largest source of net financial flows to developing countries. However, the main motives for sending remittances remain controversial. This paper examines the importance of altruistic versus investment motives using a new panel data set of bilateral...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011604734
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Employment stickiness in small manufacturing firms
Vermeulen, Philip - 2006
adjustment costs and indivisibility of labor in the employment stickiness of manufacturing firms with less than 75 employees …. When small firms have to adjust employment in units of at least one employee, indivisibility becomes an important source of … explains around 50% of the stickiness of employment, adjustment costs explain the other 50%. …
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Interactions between private and public sector wages
Afonso, António; Gomes, Pedro - 2008
sector employment and wages on the labour market, particularly on private sector wages. Our empirical evidence shows that the … growth of public sector wages and of public sector employment positively affects the growth of private sector wages. Moreover …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605017
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Nowcasting Employment in the Euro Area
Banbura, Marta; Belousova, Irina; Bodnár, Katalin; … - 2023
develop a suite of models to provide a more timely estimate (nowcast) of euro area quarterly employment growth based on a … timely assessment of employment developments with unemployment rates and sentiment indicators containing most of the relevant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014354741
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Cross-border commuting and consuming: an empirical investigation
Mathä, Thomas Y.; Porpiglia, Alessandro; Ziegelmeyer, … - 2014
This paper analyses empirically how cross-border consumption varies across product and services categories and across household characteristics. It focuses on the part of cross-border sales that arise due to work-related cross-border crossings; it analyses the cross-border consumption behaviour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605706
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Wealth differences across borders and the effect of real estate price dynamics: evidence from two household surveys
Mathä, Thomas Y.; Porpiglia, Alessandro; Ziegelmeyer, … - 2014
Crossing borders, be it international or regional, often go together with price, wage or indeed wealth discontinuities. This paper identifies substantial wealth differences between Luxembourg resident households and cross-border commuter households despite their similar incomes. The average...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605717
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Wealth Differences across Borders and the Effect of Real Estate Price Dynamics : Evidence from Two Household Surveys
Mathae, Thomas - 2014
Crossing borders, be it international or regional, often go together with price, wage or indeed wealth discontinuities. This paper identifies substantial wealth differences between Luxembourg resident households and cross-border commuter households despite their similar incomes. The average...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055306
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Cross-Border Commuting and Consuming : An Empirical Investigation
Mathä, Thomas Y.; Porpiglia, Alessandro; Ziegelmeyer, … - 2021
This paper analyses empirically how cross-border consumption varies across product and services categories and across household characteristics. It focuses on the part of cross-border sales that arise due to work-related cross-border crossings; it analyses the cross-border consumption behaviour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315629
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Job polarisation and household borrowing
Cantarella, Michele; Kavonius, Ilja Kristian - 2022
The last few decades have been accompanied by disruptive changes to the structure of employment which have led to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014278309
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Determinants of Workers' Remittances : Evidence from the European Neighbouring Region
Schiopu, Ioana C.; Siegfried, Nikolaus - 2021
Workers' remittances have become the second largest source of net financial flows to developing countries. However, the main motives for sending remittances remain controversial. This paper examines the importance of altruistic versus investment motives using a new panel data set of bilateral...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317412