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The Effects of Work-Life Benefits on Employment Outcomes in Canada : A Multivariate Analysis
Fang, Tony - 2019
Using the longitudinal Workplace and Employee Survey of Canada, we examine the association between the provision of …
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Energy Consumption, Economic Growth and CO2 Emissions in Middle East and North African Countries
Arouri, Mohamed - 2014
implementing recent bootstrap panel unit root tests and cointegration techniques to investigate the relationship between carbon …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013066339
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Does the Unemployment Invariance Hypothesis Hold for Canada?
Tansel, Aysit - 2016
This article explores the long-run relationship between unemployment rate and labor force participation rate in Canada …. The cointegration analysis vindicates the existence of a long-run relationship between these two variables. This finding … leads us to doubt the pertinence of the unemployment invariance hypothesis for Canada. This is consistent with the empirical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012983895
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On the Multivariate Analysis of the Lisbon Process
Tausch, Arno - 2007
Starting from Professor Kornai's assertion about the necessity to focus on the long-term perspectives of the transformation process, we analyze in this paper the Lisbon performance of the countries of the European Union from such a long-term, structural perspective. We present in a simple form...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012775462
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The Last Refuge of a Scoundrel? Patriotism and Tax Compliance
Konrad, Kai A. - 2009
We study the effects of patriotism on tax compliance. In particular, we assume that individuals feel a (random draw of) warm glow from honestly paying their taxes. A higher expected warm glow reduces the government's optimal audit probability and yields higher tax compliance. Second, individuals...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012763928
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Modelling Volatilities and Conditional Correlations in Futures Markets with a Multivariate T Distribution
Pesaran, Bahram; Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2021
This paper considers a multivariate t version of the Gaussian dynamic conditional correlation (DCC) model proposed by Engle (2002), and suggests the use of devolatized returns computed as returns standardized by realized volatilities rather than by GARCH type volatility estimates. The t-DCC...
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The Impact of Government Spending on GDP in a Remitting Country
Al‐Abri, Almukhtar S. - 2018
The literature on remittances is large and growing. However, its focus has mainly been on the effects of remittance inflows on the receiving economies. Little has been done on the sending economies. In this paper, we use data from Saudi Arabia, one of the top remitting countries in the world, to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012914328
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Energy Consumption and Health Outcomes in Africa
Ben Youssef, Adel - 2016
We examine causal links between energy consumption and health indicators (Mortality rate under-5, life expectancy, greenhouse effect, and government expenditure per capita) for a sample of 16 African countries over the period 1971-2010 (according to availability of countries' data). We use the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012979859
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Differential and Distributional Effects of Energy Efficiency Surveys : Evidence from Electricity Consumption
Kniesner, Thomas J. - 2016
Our research investigates the magnitude of the effect of residential energy efficiency audit programs on later household electricity consumption. These programs are designed to increase awareness of household energy consumption with personalized feedback that will eventually lead to behavioral...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013002449
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Production Risk, Energy Use Efficiency and Productivity of Korean Industries
Khayyat, Nabaz T. - 2014
Korea imports all of its primary energy, which leads to high dependency and vulnerability related to its energy supply. Efficiency in the use of energy is a way to reduce dependency and emissions. This study provides empirical results of the stochastic production process in energy use. Special...
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