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Exploring OECD SDGs Pilot City's 50-Year Time Series Data and Its Environmental Kuznets Curves
Vuong, Quan Hoang - 2019
Can green growth policies help protect the environment while keeping the industry growing and infrastructure expanding? This study applies Auto-Regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) method on the 50-years' time series data, from 1967 to 2015, of Kitakyushu City, Japan, and found mixed evidence for...
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Euro-productivity and euro-jobs since the 1960s: which institutions really mattered?
Lindert, Peter; Allard, Gayle - 2006
How have labor market institutions and welfare-state transfers affected jobs and productivity in Western Europe … wage bargaining has saved jobs throughout the postwar period, with no cost in terms of productivity. The welfare state …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266366
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Output collapses and productivity destruction
Blyde, Juan S.; Daude, Christian; Fernández-Arias, Eduardo - 2009
below trend - and total factor productivity (TFP), using a panel of 71 developed and developing countries during the period …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278252
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Global Inflation
Ciccarelli, Matteo; Mojon, Benoît - 2008
This paper shows that in ation in industrialized countries is largely a global phenomenon. First, the inflation rates of 22 OECD countries have a common factor that alone accounts for nearly 70 percent of their variance. This large variance share that is associated with Global Inflation is not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292130
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Occupational upgrading, social inclusion and collective skill formation in the transition to the knowledge economy
Durazzi, Niccolo; Tonelli, Simone - 2024
Collective skill formation systems were central to sustaining a high-road approach to economic development in industrial societies while maintaining social inclusion. But can they still deliver in knowledge-based societies, both economically and socially? This article argues that nothing...
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Deconstructing China's and India's Growth: the Role of Financial Policies
Aziz, Jahangir - 2008
This paper uses the standard one-sector neoclassical growth model to investigate why China's consumption has been low and investment high. It finds that the low cost of capital has been quantitatively an important factor. Theory predicts that the price of capital may have been significantly...
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Does Unemployment Hysteresis Equal Employment Hysteresis?
Gustavsson, Magnus; Österholm, Pär - 2006
This paper investigates if conclusions regarding labour market hysteresis differ depending on whether employment or unemployment rates are studied. Applying a range of unit-root tests to monthly data from Australia, Austria, Canada, Finland, Sweden, the U.K. and the U.S., we find results for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321556
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Labour Market Reforms and Unemployment: Lessons from the Experience of the OECD Countries
Scarpetta, Stefano - 1998
The OECD labor market has undergone major changes over the past two decades. The most evident of these changes is the rise in the number of job-seekers. In 1997, there were more than 35 million people unemployed in the OECD area as a whole, some 6 million more than in the mid-1980s and almost 25...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010327008
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The macroeconomics of the labor market: three fundamental views
Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Héctor; Snower, Dennis J. - 2007
We distinguish and assess three fundamental views of the labor market regarding the movements in unempoyment: (i) the frictionless equilibrium view; (ii) the chain reaction theory, or prolonged adjustment view; and (iii) the hysteresis view. While the frictionless view implies a clear...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281021
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Productivity, energy prices, and the great moderation: A new link
Dhawan, Rajeev; Jeske, Karsten; Silos, Pedro - 2008
We study how total factor productivity (TFP), energy prices, and the Great Moderation are linked. First we estimate a … negatively affected productivity. This spillover has since disappeared. Second, we show that within the framework of a dynamic … stochastic general equilibrium model, the disappearance of this energy-productivity spillover generates the significantly lower …
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