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The Persistence of Self-Employment Across Borders: New Evidence on Legal Immigrants to the United States
Akee, Randall K.Q; Jaeger, David A; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - In: Economics Bulletin 33 (2013) 1, pp. 126-137
Using recently-available data from the New Immigrant Survey, we find that previous self-employment experience in an immigrant's country of origin is an important determinant of self-employment status in the U.S., increasing the probability of being self-employed by about 7 percent relative to an...
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Intensive margin and extensive margin adjustments of labor market: Turkey versus United States
Taskin, Temel - In: Economics Bulletin 33 (2013) 3, pp. 2307-2319
In this paper, we document the intensive and extensive margin adjustments of labor market in Turkey and US. We find that both margins are important. More interestingly, the weight of intensive margin adjustment does not differ substantially between the two countries. Common wisdom and some...
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The effect of emigration on unemployment: Evidence from the Central and Eastern European EU member states
Pryymachenko, Yana; Fregert, Klas; Andersson, Fredrik N. G. - In: Economics Bulletin 33 (2013) 4, pp. 2692-2697
) members of EU during the period 2000 to 2007 has contributed significantly to the decline in unemployment in these countries. …
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Wage Rigidity or Fiscal Redistribution: The credibility Issue
santos, Manon Domingues dos; Lehmann, Etienne - In: Economics Bulletin 32 (2012) 4, pp. 2801-2807
redistribute income, despite its negative impact on unemployment. In the absence of commitment, firms anticipate the government … a reduction in the labor demand that generates unemployment. …
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Equilibrium in Matching Models with Employment Dependent Productivity
Cardullo, Gabriele - In: Economics Bulletin 29 (2009) 3, pp. 2380-2387
In a standard search and matching framework, the labor market presents frictions while in the competitive product market the demand is infinitely elastic.To have a more realistic framework, some models abandon the assumption of infinite elasticity and consider a two-tier productive scheme in the...
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Labour market, obesity and public policy considerations
Eleftheriou, Konstantinos; Athanasiou, George; … - In: Economics Bulletin 33 (2013) 1, pp. 783-793
This paper attempts to investigate the relation among wages, unemployment, obesity and to identify public policies to … framework tries to capture the relationship between obesity and employment/unemployment by assuming that the fraction of obese … workers is a function of the ratio of vacant jobs to unemployment (labour market tightness). We argue that if obesity is …
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Do pro-employment public policies matter?
Raies, Asma - In: Economics Bulletin 32 (2012) 3, pp. 2442-2452
Theoretical and empirical studies addressing the effectiveness issue of the wage subsidy scheme are somewhat non-concluding. This paper attempts to contribute to the recent litterature of the field by studying the effectiveness of wage subsidies and by comparing their consequences with those...
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The Keynesian multiplier and the Pigou effect under substitution between private and public consumption
Corchón, Luis Carlos - In: Economics Bulletin 30 (2010) 1, pp. 829-836
In this paper we present a fixprice model in which private and public consumption show some degree of substitution. We offer formulae for the Keynesian multiplier which depend on this degree of substitution. We also show that there is a Pigou effect and that, sometimes, this effect is larger...
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Reconsidering the effect of economic development on urban unemployment under nonhomothetic preferences
Takeuchi, Nobuyuki - In: Economics Bulletin 35 (2015) 1, pp. 313-321
We reconsider the effect of economic development on urban unemployment by introducing households with nonhomothetic … that urban unemployment decreases with urban development but increases with rural development. As for labour growth, it … normally increases urban unemployment. …
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Intergenerational earnings mobility in Taiwan
Sun, Fengye; Ueda, Atsuko - In: Economics Bulletin 35 (2015) 1, pp. 187-197
This study aims to estimate the extent of intergenerational mobility of earnings in Taiwan. The intergenerational …
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