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Divergence in Labour Force Growth : Should Wages and Prices Grow Faster in Germany?
Beissinger, Thomas - 2020
We develop a model which shows that wages, prices and real income should grow faster in countries with low increase in their labour force. If not, other countries experience growing unemployment and/or trade deficit. This result is applied to the case of Germany, which has displayed a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012826760
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What Factors Influence Firm Perceptions of Labour Market Constraints to Growth in the MENA Region?
Fakih, Ali - 2015
Labour market constraints constitute prominent obstacles to firm development and economic growth of countries located in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. This paper aims at examining the implications of firm characteristics, national locations, and sectoral associations for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013013595
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The Effect of Enclave Residence on the Labour Force Activities of Immigrants in Canada
Tu, Jiong - 2010
It has been well documented that immigrants' clustering of residence in large cities has been associated with the creation of a number of ethnic enclaves. The intensive exposure to own-ethnic population could affect immigrant labour market involvement positively or negatively. However, no extant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013147862
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How Destructive is Creative Destruction? The Costs of Worker Displacement
Huttunen, Kristiina; Møen, Jarle; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2021
We analyze short and long-term effects of worker displacement. Our focus is on prime-age male workers displaced from Norwegian manufacturing plants. We find that displacement increases the probability of exiting the labor force by about 5 percentage points. This indicates that studies using data...
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How Immigration Grease is Affected by Economic, Institutional and Policy Contexts : Evidence from EU Labor Markets
Guzi, Martin - 2015
Theoretical arguments and previous country-level evidence indicate that immigrants are more fluid than natives in responding to changing labor shortages across countries, skill-groups or industries. The diversity across EU member states enables us to test this hypothesis across various...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016386
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The Impact of Arab Spring on Hiring and Separation Rates in the Tunisian Labour Market
Haouas, Ilham - 2015
This paper analyses the hiring and separation rates in Tunisia before and after the Arab Spring of 2011. Several models … presence of continued risk factors in Tunisia's labour market resulting from the global financial crisis in 2008 and the Arab … separation decisions remained present in Tunisia's labour market. In addition, the paper looks at various social issues such as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013028192
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On the Malleability of Implicit Attitudes Towards Women Empowerment : Evidence from Tunisia
Nillesen, Eleonora E. - 2019
attitudes using a randomized field experiment and quasi-experimental data from Tunisia. Women that appear most conservative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012865858
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Measuring Youth Empowerment : An Illustration Using the Example of Tunisia
Goedhuys, Micheline; Grimm, Michael; Meysonnat, Aline; … - 2022
from a household survey in Tunisia including a sample of young adults (18 to 30 years old), we assess youth empowerment in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014084077
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Economies of Scale in the Tunisian Industries
Heshmati, Almas - 2011
To date, empirical investigations of trade liberalization under the conditions of increasing returns to scale (IRS) and imperfect competition (IC) have either assumed or imposed the market and productive structures necessary for such a model. However, of the recent IRS/IC models used to simulate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124474
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Labor Market Dynamics in Tunisia : The Issue of Youth Unemployment
Stampini, Marco - 2011
This paper analyzes the dynamics of the youth labor market in Tunisia using unique labor force survey data from 2005 to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127324