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The Palestinian labor market over the last three decades

Hallaq, Sameh - 2020

This paper consists of three economic literature review essays that survey the Palestinian labor market during the last three decades. The first essay examines the economic return to schooling since 1981 until the recent period, taking into consideration the major shocks that the Palestinian...

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Liquidity constraints, household wealth, and entrepreneurship revisited

Fairlie, Robert W.; Krashinsky, Harry A. - 2011

A large body research shows a positive relationship between wealth and entrepreneurship and interprets the relationship … entrepreneurship and a different measure of wealth - net housing equity - for the two groups. Second, we examine the liquidity … probability of entrepreneurship by 17 percent and that the effect is not concentrated at the upper tail of the distribution. These …

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International Labour Force Participation Rates by Gender: Unit Root or Structural Breaks?

Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin; Balcilar, Mehmet; Tansel, Aysit - 2011

in the total, female and male labour force participation rates (LFPR) for Australia, Canada and the USA. We extend the …

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Are Labor Force Participation Rates Really Non-Stationary? Evidence from Three OECD Countries

Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin; Balcilar, Mehmet; Tansel, Aysit - 2012

rate (LFPR) series of Australia, Canada and the USA. Therefore we allow for endogenously determined multiple structural … previous research the LFPRs of Australia, Canada and the USA are stationary implying that the informational value of the …

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Marriage stability, taxation and aggregate labor supply in the U.S. vs. Europe

Chakraborty, Indraneel; Holter, Hans A.; Stepanchuk, Serhiy - 2012

Americans work more than Europeans. Using micro data from the U.S. and 17 European countries, we study the contributions from demographic subgroups to these aggregate level differences. We document that women are typically the largest contributors to the discrepancy in work hours. We also...

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Labor-force participation rates and the informal value of unemployment rates: Evidence from disaggregated US data

Gustavsson, Magnus; Österholm, Pär - 2010

The informational value of the aggregate US unemployment rate has recently been questioned because of a unit root in the labor-force participation rate; the lack of mean reversion implies that long-run changes in unemployment rates are highly unlikely to reflect long-run changes in joblessness....

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The impact of consumer credit access on self-employment and entrepreneurship

Herkenhoff, Kyle; Phillips, Gordon M.; Cohen-Cole, Ethan - In: Journal of financial economics 141 (2021) 1, pp. 345-371

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Is there an informal employment wage penalty in Egypt

Tansel, Aysit; Keskin, Halil Ibrahim; Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin - 2015

This paper considers the private sector wage earners in Egypt and examine their wage distribution during 1998-2012 using Egyptian Labor Market Panel Survey. We first estimate Mincer wage equations both at the mean and at different quantiles of the wage distribution taking into account observable...

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Temporary Jobs and On-the-Job Training in Sweden - A Negative Nexus?

Wallette, Mårten - 2005

This paper investigates temporary jobs and on-the-job training in the Swedish labour market during the 1990s. The analysis focuses on how the incidence and the amount of OJT differ between workers who hold temporary jobs vis-à-vis workers who hold open-ended jobs. An important aspect is also...

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Temporary Jobs and the Exit to Open-Ended Jobs in the Swedish Labour Market

Wallette, Mårten - 2004

This paper analyses exit probabilities from different types of temporary jobs to open-ended jobs in Sweden during 1991-1999. The main aim of the study is to illuminate how the exit probabilities, and their determinants, differ by type of temporary job. A second focus is how the exit...

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