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Labour Market Dynamics: Cross-country Insights from Panel Data

Berger-Thomson, Laura; Roberts, Nyssa - In: RBA Bulletin (2012) September, pp. 27-36

This article uses household-level survey data on income and employment to compare labour market dynamics across a range … of advanced economies, including Australia. The analysis focuses on how changes in employment status are distributed … studied. In particular, lower-income households are more likely to have moved into or out of employment but less likely to …

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Experience Rating of Unemployment Insurance in the US: A Model for Europe?

Fath, Julia; Fuest, Clemens - In: CESifo DICE Report 3 (2005) 2, pp. 45-50

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Volatility transmission and herding contagion during the global financial crisis

Abbes, Mouna Boujelbène - In: International Journal of Managerial and Financial Accounting 5 (2013) 2, pp. 138-161

This study offers a new perspective on crisis transmission through an examination of herding contagion during 2008-global financial crisis across Asian and European financial markets. Using a bivariate GARCH-BEKK model, results show that the volatility of US stock market during the subprime...

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Growth, foreign investment and trade-openness interactions in ten OECD countries: a panel-VAR approach

Pradhan, Rudra P.; Bagchi, Tapan P.; Chowdhury, Khorshed; … - In: International Journal of Banking, Accounting and Finance 4 (2012) 4, pp. 273-293

, Japan, Norway, Spain, Switzerland and the USA, between 1970 and 2010. We find that foreign direct investment, trade openness …

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On the causal relationship between trade-openness and government-size: evidence from OECD countries

Molana, Hassan; Montagna, Catia; Violato, Mara - In: International Journal of Public Policy 7 (2011) 4/5/6, pp. 226-249

The compensation hypothesis predicts a positive causation from international economic openness to the size of the public sector, as governments step in to perform a risk mitigating role to counterbalance the increasing exposure to external risk and the economic dislocations caused by growing...

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Direkte Demokratie

Kirchgässner, Gebhard - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2010

The current debt crisis in many OECD countries calls for adequate strategies in budget consolidation. To regain fiscal solvency many governments base their fiscal adjustments at least partly on spending cuts. A common political claim is that spending cuts rely too much on investment thereby...

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School Science Laboratories: Today's Trends and Guidelines

Directorate for Education, Organisation de Coopération …; … - 1999

Science laboratories in schools are expensive to equip and maintain. Specific pedagogical needs, new technology and safety requirements contribute to the costs. In an effort to get the most efficient use of facilities, some countries are rethinking school labs with a move toward more flexible...

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After-Hours Use of Schools

Directorate for Education, Organisation de Coopération …; … - 1999

, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States. …

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Sustainability of Public Debt

Neck, Reinhard (contributor); Sturm, Jan-Egbert (contributor) - The MIT Press

Switzerland, with special emphasis in the EU chapters on the fiscal criteria for entrance into the European Monetary Union and the …

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The United States Disability System and Programs to Promote Employment for People with Disabilities.

Wittenburg, David; Rangarajan, Anu; Honeycutt, Todd - Mathematica Policy Research - 2008

This paper examines employment-focused policies in the U.S. disability system and summarizes rigorous evaluations of … promoting employment, given that many interventions have gone untested and most U.S. disability programs include work …

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