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Shocking Aspects of Canadian Labor Markets

Sutton, Bennett - 2006

using macroeconomic data on employment, unemployment, participation, and (for Canada) migration and real wages. We find that …

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Currency Unions, Economic Fluctuations, and Adjustment : Some New Empirical Evidence

Prasad, Eswar - 1996

This paper examines the sources of disturbances to output in the United States and a set of EU countries and analyzes labor market adjustment mechanisms in these two economic areas. Comparable datasets comprising 1-digit sectoral data for eight U.S. regions and eight European countries are...

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On the inverse relationship between unemployment and absenteeism: evidence from natural experiments and worker heterogeneity

Fahr, René; Frick, Bernd - 2007

Although an inverse relationship between sickness absence and unemployment has been documented in a number of studies … whether this empirical regularity is due to changes in the individual costs of absence when unemployment increases (incentive … the unemployment benefit entitlement system with monthly absence data for East and West Germany for the years 1991 …

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On the Inverse Relationship betweenUnemployment and Absenteeism: Evidence fromNatural Experiments and Worker Heterogeneity

Fahr, René; Frick, Bernd - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

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Strategic Hiring Behavior in Empirical Matching Functions

Fahr, René; Sunde, Uwe - 2001

This paper makes two contributions to the empirical matching literature. First, a recent study by Anderson and Burgess (2000) testing for endogenous competition among job seekers in a matching frame-work, is replicated with a richer and more accurate data set for Germany. Their results are...

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Disaggregate Matching Functions

Fahr, René; Sunde, Uwe - 2001

This paper deals with empirical matching functions. The paper is innovative in several ways. First, unlike in most of the existing literature, matching functions are estimated not only on aggregate, but also on disaggregate levels which is unusual due to the scarcity of appropriate data....

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Output, Employment and Financial Sanctions in South Africa

Bayoumi, Tamim - 1990

The effects of the marked slowdown in the growth of the capital stock in South Africa since 1985, associated with political uncertainty and financial sanctions, and future growth prospects are quantified using a modified version of the Lewis development model. This is done by estimating...

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Liability-Creating Versus Non-Liability-Creating Fiscal Stabilization Policies : Ricardian Equivalence, Fiscal Stabilization, and Emu

Masson, Paul R. - 1998

This paper looks at theoretical and empirical issues associated with the operation of fiscal stabilizers within an economy. It argues that such stabilizers operate most effectively at a national, rather than local, level. As differing cycles across regions tend to offset each other for the...

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Relative Prices and Economic Adjustment in the U.S. and the EU : A Real Story About European Monetary Union

Thomas, Alun H. - 1994

Structural vector autoregressions are used to analyze the relationship between real output and relative prices within the EU and the United States, Relative price variability appears to be more important for adjustment within the EU than the United States, reflecting the lower integration of...

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Euro Area Export Performance and Competitiveness

Turunen, Jarkko - 2011

Concerns about export growth within the euro area peripheral countries due to a lack of competitiveness within the euro area are a key policy issue. Our analysis suggests that: (i) Long-term price elasticities for intra-euro area exports are at least double those for extra-euro area exports, so...

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