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Growth, volatility and political instability: non-linear time-series evidence for Argentina, 1896 - 2000
Campos, Nauro F.; Karanasos, Menelaos G. - 2007
What is the relationship between economic growth and its volatility? Does political instability affect growth directly … or indirectly, through volatility? This paper tries to answer such questions using a power-ARCH framework with annual … legislative changes) has an indirect (through volatility) negative impact. We also find preliminary support for the idea that …
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Flexibility at the margin and labor market volatility in OECD countries
Sala, Héctor; Silva, José Ignacio; Toledo, Manuel E. - 2008
achieve similar volatility than fully deregulated labor markets. Flexibility at the margin produces a gap in separation costs … de labor market volatility. This increased volatility is partially reverted when limitations in the duration and number … explain the similar volatility observed in many regulated OECD labor markets with flexibility at the margin vis-à-vis the …
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The economic security index: A new measure for research and policy analysis
Hacker, Jacob S.; Huber, Gregory Alain; Nichols, Austin; … - 2012
combining data from multiple surveys, we create an integrated measure of volatility in available household resources, accounting …
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Cyclical Fluctuations in Workplace Accidents
Boone, Jan; van Ours, Jan C. - 2002
This paper presents a theory and an empirical investigation on cyclical fluctuations in workplace accidents. The theory is based on the idea that reporting an accident dents the reputation of a worker and raises the probability that he is fired. Therefore a country with a high or an increasing...
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Examining the Impact of Macro-Economic Conditions on Income Inequality
Jäntti, Markus; Jenkins, Stephen P. - 2001
This paper proposes a new approach for analyzing the relationship between macroeconomic factors and the income distribution. The conventional method of analysis is regression of summary inequality indices on variables such as the unemployment and inflation rates. Building on the lessons from...
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Technical change and total factor productivity growth for Chinese provinces: a panel data analysis
Shiu, Alice; Heshmati, Almas - 2006
We present in this paper the panel econometrics estimation approach of measuring the technical change and total factor … variances has been used for the estimation of the translog production functions. Two alternative formulations of technical …
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Moving down: women's part time work and occupational change in Britain 1991 - 2001
Connolly, Sara; Gregory, Mary - 2007
The UK's Equal Opportunities Commission has recently drawn attention to the 'hidden brain drain' when women working part-time are employed in occupations below those for which they are qualified. These inferences were based on self-reporting. We give an objective and quantitative analysis of the...
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Google econometrics and unemployment forecasting
Askitas, Nikolaos; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009
The current economic crisis requires fast information to predict economic behavior early, which is difficult at times of structural changes. This paper suggests an innovative new method of using data on internet activity for that purpose. It demonstrates strong correlations between keyword...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269318
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Technical change and total factor productivity growth: the case of Chinese provinces
Heshmati, Almas; Kumbhakar, Subal C. - 2010
In the literature technical change is mostly assumed to be exogenous and specified as a function of time. However, some exogenous external factors other than time can also affect technical change. In this paper we model technical change via time trend (purely external non-economic) as well as...
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Real wages and the business cycles in Germany
Marczak, Martyna; Beissinger, Thomas - 2010
This paper establishes stylized facts about the cyclicality of real consumer wages and real producer wages in Germany. As detrending methods we apply the deterministic trend model, the Beveridge-Nelson decomposition, the Hodrick-Prescott filter, the Baxter-King filter and the structural time...
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