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Coordination of Hours within the Firm
Labanca, Claudio; Pozzoli, Dario - 2018
Although coworkers are spending an increasing share of their working time interacting with one another, little is known about how the coordination of hours among heterogenous coworkers affects pay, productivity and labor supply. In this paper, we use new linked employer-employee dataon hours...
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Gender disparities in valuing remote and hybrid work in Latin America
Diaz Escobar, Ana Maria; Salas, Luz Magdalena; Piras, … - 2024
This study sheds light on the growing trend and gender dynamics of workplace flexibility in Latin America, underscoring the importance of remote work options in the region's labor market. We explore gender differences in willingness to pay (WTP) for remote work arrangements in Latin America,...
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Specialization, Outsourcing and Wages
Munch, Jakob Roland; Skaksen, Jan Rose - 2006
This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages. In contrast to the standard approach in the … literature, we focus on domestic outsourcing as well as foreign outsourcing. By using a simple theoretical model, we argue that …, if outsourcing is associated with specialization gains arising from an increase in the extent of the market for …
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Structural fiscal balances in Latin America and the Caribbean : new dataset and estimations
Ardanaz, Martín; Corbacho, Ana; Gonzáles, Alberto; … - 2015
In recent years, an increasing number of countries have began anchoring their fiscal policy frameworks in terms of rules that target the cyclically adjusted or structural (as opposed to actual) balance in an effort to overcome problems of procyclicality and fiscal volatility. The logic for doing...
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Timing the Maltese business cycle : a historical perspective
Ellul, Reuben - 2021
Despite data limitations, formal methods can still be applied to identify business cycle turning points and hence date appropriately the Maltese business cycle. An extension of the official quarterly GDP time series to the 1970s allows for a historical view on dating the business cycle, leading...
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Business cycle persistence in developing countries : how successful is a DSGE model with a vertical production chain and sticky prices?
Male, Rachel - 2010
It is well documented that business cycles of developed countries are characterised by persistent output fluctuations, and this has been the subject of much theoretical interest. However, the case for developing countries has been somewhat neglected in the literature. This paper addresses this...
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Developing country business cycles : characterising the cycle
Male, Rachel - 2010
Classical business cycles, following Burns and Mitchell (1946), can be defined as the sequential pattern of expansions and contractions in aggregate economic activity. Recently, Harding and Pagan (2002, 2006) have provided an econometric toolkit for the analysis of these cycles, and this has...
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Developing country business cycles : revisiting the stylised facts
Male, Rachel - 2010
Identifying business cycle stylised facts is essential as these often form the basis for the construction and validation of theoretical business cycle models. Furthermore, understanding the cyclical patterns in economic activity, and their causes, is important to the decisions of both...
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Has India emerged? : business cycle stylized facts from a transitioning economy
Ghate, Chetan; Pandey, Radhika; Patnaik, Ila - 2012
This paper presents a comprehensive set of stylised facts for business cycles in India from 1950-2010. We show that most macroeconomic variables are less volatile in the post reform period, even though the volatility of macroeconomic variables is still high and similar to other emerging market...
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A new look at uncertainty shocks : imperfect information and misallocation
Senga, Tatsuro - 2015
Uncertainty faced by individual firms appears to be heterogeneous. In this paper, I construct new empirical measures of firm-level uncertainty using data from the I/B/E/S and Compustat. These new measures reveal persistent differences in the degree of uncertainty facing individual firms not...
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