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This paper investigates the nature of the output-employment relationship by using the Turkish quarterly data for the … period from 1988 to 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 …
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Employment data in India is far from adequate if policy responses have to be more effective and timely. Most employment … gaps and revamp the existing employment data systems, the government has put in place a Task Force. However, new employment … data is unlikely to be available until the latter half of next year. Understanding and analyzing employment trends in the …
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In this paper we price a precipitation option based on empirical weather data from Germanyusing different pricing … that a considerable risk remainswith producers who are located remotely from the weather station. Another finding isthat … weather derivatives. …
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Using recent results in the measurement error literature, we show that the official U.S. unemployment rates substantially underestimate the true levels of unemployment, due to misclassification errors in labor force status in Current Population Surveys. Our closed-form identification of the...
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objective is to identify policy tools that help generate sustained increases in employment in the long run. Therefore, we focus …
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difficulties. This study explores potential future employment dynamics across European industries and employment groups for the …
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India. It identifies three channels through which SEZs address these issues: employment generation, skill formation (human … interviews of entrepreneurs and workers across the three largest SEZs (in terms of their contribution to exports and employment …) : SEEPZ, Madras and Noida. The analysis reveals that `employment generation' has been the most important channel through which …
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Achieving a good response rate is a goal in every survey. Response rate has also become an interesting academic debate. On one side Hunt (1990) maintains that since marketing is a social science, where most of the time researchers are interested in examining relationships rather than determining...
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The long memory characteristic of financial market volatility is well documentedand has important implications for volatility forecasting and optionpricing. When fitted to the same data, different volatility models calculate theunconditional variance differently and could have very different...
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The estimation of multivariate GARCH models remains a challenging task, even in modern computer environments. This manuscript shows how Independent Component Analysiscan be used to estimate the Generalized Orthogonal GARCH model in a fraction of the time otherwise required. The proposed method...
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