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This article examines the effect of social networks by investigating how mobilizing family, friendship or kindship ties in job searches affects the quality of employment (QoE) using a mixed approach. Drawing from socioeconomic literature on the segmented labor market, the authors propose an...
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than the average of Colombia. Moreover, we found periods of economic boom between 1800 and 1840, 1860 and 1880, and 1905 …
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Inflation, a macroeconomic variable, is underpinned by microeconomic data. This paper uses a large microdata sample at …
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monetary forces in producing deflation in the second and final quarters of the fourteenth century, but severe inflation in … deflations and intervening inflation – were the most powerful determinant of the level of real wages (i.e., in terms of the …’ by the post-Plague inflation, so that real wages fell. Conversely, the rise of real wages in the second quarter of the …
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taking CPI food, CPI general, WPI food, WPI general, GDP deflator and SPI as measures of inflation and M1, M2 and M3 supply …
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Using annual data for Colombia over the last 30 years, we test competing theories that explain macroeconomic …-run sensitivity of output to inflation. …
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Inflation is currently low and falling in the OECD area. A side effect of these facts is that they made harder the task … single prices did not tend to narrow as inflation falls. Thus the distribution of price changes (and underlying price … evidence concerning price changes dispersion and its effects on economic analysis and the dependency of inflation from initial …
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Can one come up with the ‘hard science’ to show that part of the enviable ‘quality of life’ in certain provinces in Canada has to do with the differential ‘purchasing power’ of their residents? Although the mean level of earnings/income per annum is lower/higher in certain provinces...
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There are a lot of studies that test Ballasa –Samuelson hypothesis also known as Harrod-BalassaSamuelson effect directly via the effect of productivity, one possible explanation is that PER Capita GDP is not good explanation for productivity (.i.e. Labor productivity) differences; an increase...
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, productivity, international competitiveness, real wages, per-capita consumption and poverty, other than inflation. Hedonic methods …
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