decentralization on the occurrence of transnational terror. Our results show that expenditure decentralization reduces the number of … transnational terror events in a country, while political decentralization has no impact. These results are robust to the choice of …

in quantity and quality of output. We use data from a controlled field experiment that changed the communication of the …

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 …

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 …

combining data from multiple surveys, we create an integrated measure of volatility in available household resources, accounting …

This paper investigates the nature of the output-employment relationship by using the Turkish quarterly data for the … period 1988-2008. Even if we fail to find a long-run relationship between aggregate output and total employment, there are … long-run relationships for the aggregate output with non-agricultural employment and sectoral employment levels for seven …

Observations on munition workers, most of them women, are organized to examine the relationship between their output … and their working hours. The relationship is nonlinear: below an hours threshold, output is proportional to hours; above a … threshold, output rises at a decreasing rate as hours increase. Implications of these results for the estimation of labor supply …