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We distinguish and assess three fundamental views of the labor market regarding the movements in unemployment: (i) the … that all the short-run fluctuations automatically turn into long-run changes in the unemployment rate. We assert the …
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Using panel data for 143 countries over the period 1973-2002, this paper empirically analyzes the influence of US aid on voting patterns in the UN General Assembly. We use disaggregated aid data to account for the fact that various forms of aid may differ in their ability to induce political...
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enrolment. This result is robust to the method of estimation, employing instruments to control for the endogeneity of aid, and …
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NGOs play an important role in international development cooperation, but the allocation of NGO aid has rarely been mapped, let alone explained. Based on a representative dataset for 61 important NGOs from various OECD countries, we analyze the targeting of NGO aid across a large number of...
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This paper takes a new look at the long-run dynamics of inflation and unemployment in response to permanent changes in …, we construct an empirical model of the Spanish economy and, in this context, we evaluate the long-run inflation-unemployment …
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This paper takes a new look at the long-run dynamics of inflation and unemployment in response to permanent changes in …, we construct an empirical model of the Spanish economy and, in this context, we evaluate the long-run inflation-unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276422
This paper argues that there is a nonzero inflation-unemployment tradeoff in the long-run due to frictional growth, a … unemployment. Hence, we estimate an interactive dynamics model for the US that includes wage-price setting and labour market … equations. We then evaluate the inflation-unemployment tradeoff and assess the impact of productivity, money growth, budget …
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Major DAC donors are widely criticized for weak targeting of aid, selfish aid motives and insufficient coordination. The emergence of an increasing number of new donors may further complicate the coordination of international aid efforts. On the other hand, new donors (many of which were aid...
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This paper takes a new look at the long-run dynamics of inflation and unemployment in response to permanent changes in …, we construct an empirical model of the Spanish economy and, in this context, we evaluate the long-run inflation-unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011453721
What determines the foreign aid effort of donor countries? We review the existing literature on donors' aid budgets and examine which of the suggested variables robustly determine aid effort, measured as Official Development Assistance (ODA) as a share of gross national income. More...
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