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Taub, Bart - 2001
A firm monopsonistically hires labor from a pool containing both skilled and unskilled workers. The marginal value of a worker depends on the match between the job and the worker's skill level. Unskilled workers can have negative productivity if they are placed in a skilled job. The firm cannot...
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Regional convergence in the European Union (1985 - 1999): A spatial dynamic panel analysis
Badinger, Harald; Müller, Werner G.; Tondl, Gabriele - 2002
We estimate the speed of income convergence for a sample of 196 European NUTS 2 regions over the period 1985-1999. So far there is no direct estimator available for dynamic panels with strong spatial dependencies. We propose a two-step procedure, which involves first spatial filtering of the...
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Social Security, Unemployment, and Growth
Bräuninger, Michael - 2004
The paper develops an overlapping generations model that highlights interactions between social security, unemployment and growth. The social security system has two components: old age pensions and unemployment insurance. Pensions have a direct effect on economic growth. Both pensions and...
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Wages and Employment Growth: Disaggregated Evidence for West Germany
Suedekum, Jens; Blien, Uwe - 2004
We address the effects of wages on employment growth on the basis of a theoretical model from which cost and demand effects can be derived. In the empirical analysis we take a highly disaggregated perspective and apply a newly developed shift-share regression technique on an exhaustive and very...
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Financial Risks, Bankruptcy Probabilities, and the Investment Behaviour of Enterprises
Kirchesch, Kai - 2004
modified neoclassical investment equation is tested with West German panel data which include more than 6000 enterprises and …
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Long-term unemployment and subsidizing vacancies in a growth-matching model
Birk, Angela - 2001
How can long-term unemployment be reduced by policy measures of the government? In this paper a growth-matching … wird ein Wachstums-Matching-Modell entwickelt, das durch heterogene Arbeitslose - Kurz- und Langzeitarbeitslose - und bei …
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Qualification-mismatch and long-term unemployment in a growth-matching model
Birk, Angela - 2001
of growth attributable to technical progress is evaluated in a growth-matching-model with heterogeneous jobless workers … Langzeitarbeitslosigkeit und der Wachstumsrate des technischen Fortschritts wird in einem Wachstums-Matching-Modell mit heterogenen …
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Long-term unemployment, technical progress and capital mobility in an open growth-matching model
Birk, Angela - 2002
Matching-Ansatz von Pissarides erweitert wird. In dem allgemeinen Gleichgewichtsmodell ist der Arbeitsmarkt des Drei … open neoclassical growth model that is extended by a Pissarides-style labor market matching approach. In the general … Beziehung wird in einem geöffneten neoklassischen Wachstumsmodell evaluiert, das um einen Arbeitsmarkt nach der Formulierung des …
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Spatial dependence of regional unemployment in the European Union
Niebuhr, Annekatrin - 2002
The findings of recent studies on adjustment processes suggest that regional labour markets in the EU and the US differ significantly. Low wage flexibility and limited labour mobility in European countries involve persistent unemployment differentials across regions. However, the spatial...
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Relationship between Trade Liberalisation, Economic Growth and Trade Balance: An Econometric Investigation
Parikh, Ashok; Stirbu, Corneliu - 2004
percentages of GDP). Both panel data and country by country data are used to measure the impact of liberalisation on domestic …. Panel data of 42 countries, regional panel for three regions (fixed effect and random effect models) and country by country …
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