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Determinants of Profit Sharing in the Finnish Corporate Sector

Arranz-Aperte, Laura; Heshmati, Almas - 2003

This study investigates the role of factors that determine individual employees? and firms? participation in profit sharing schemes. Using a large panel data of Finnish employees for the period 1996-2000 we analyse individual and workplace characteristics that make firms employ profit sharing...

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Are Unemployment Rates in OECD Countries Stationary? Evidence from Univariate and Panel Unit Root Tests

Khraief, Naceur; Shahbaz, Muhammad; Heshmati, Almas; … - 2015

This paper revisits the dynamics of unemployment rate for 29 OECD countries over the period of 1980-2013. Numerous … empirical studies of the dynamics of unemployment rate are carried out within a linear framework. However, unemployment rate can … time series exhibits nonlinear behaviour. Our empirical findings provide significant evidence in favour of unemployment …

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What If You Had Been Less Fortunate: The Effects of Poor Family Background on Current Labor Market Outcomes

Cho, Sungwook; Heshmati, Almas - 2013

This study examines the correlation between childhood poverty and its influence on adulthood wage distribution, where childhood poverty refers to experience of poverty or poor family background during one's childhood. With the data from Korean Labor Income Panel Study, KLIPS, quantile regression...

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The Effects of Union Wage-Settings on Firms' Production Factor Decisions

Heshmati, Almas; Haouas, Ilham - 2003

This study is concerned with the development of a theoretical model and its empirical application to the estimation of the interaction between firms and trade union in determining wages and employment. The focus is on analyzing the effects of unions? demands on the firm?s choice of factors of...

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Labour-Use Efficiency in Tunisian Manufacturing Industries

Haouas, Ilham; Yagoubi, Mahmoud; Heshmati, Almas - 2003

This paper investigates the process of adjustment in employment. A dynamic model is applied to a panel of six Tunisian manufacturing industries observed over the period 1971?96. The adjustment process is industry and time specific. The adjustment parameter is specified in terms of factors...

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The Impacts of Trade Liberalization on Employment and Wages in Tunisian Industries

Haouas, Ilham; Yagoubi, Mahmoud; Heshmati, Almas - 2003

This paper investigates short and long-run effects of trade liberalization on employment and wages. Employment and wage equations are estimated using data (1971?96) for importable and exportable sectors in Tunisia. Causality tests show that causality is unidirectional. Wages strongly causes...

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Labor market policy options of the Kurdistan regional government

Heshmati, Almas - 2007

. In the first step, each of the determinants of unemployment is described and establishes their causal and directions of … providing knowledge about the nature of (un)employment and current policy measures, a number policy measures are proposed to … reduce the rate of unemployment or to reduce the negative effects of unemployment and to promote skills, capability and …

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Influence of Freedom of Choice on Happiness

Koohborfardhaghighi, Somayeh; Summers, Christopher R.; … - 2022

The literature on happiness shows that there are many factors that influence a person’s happiness. Extending previous studies, we investigate the role of the freedom of choice as a key contributing construct in influencing a person’s happiness. We define two hypothetical sub-constructs for...

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The Impact of Arab Spring on Hiring and Separation Rates in the Tunisian Labour Market

Haouas, Ilham; Heshmati, Almas - 2015

youth unemployment and infer on how more efficient policy actions that will further engage the private sector could result …

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The Relationship between Income Inequality, Poverty and Globalisation

Heshmati, Almas - 2004

This paper introduces two composite indices of globalisation. The first is based on the Kearney/Foreign Policy magazine and the second is obtained from principal component analysis. They indicate the level of globalisation and show how globalisation has developed over time for different...

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