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Growth, economic structure and informality
Chacaltana, Juan; Bonnet, Florence; Garcia, Juan Manuel - 2022
This paper explores the relationship between economic growth and informality and highlights the role of GDP growth and its composition in the level and evolution of informality, using country data from 1991 to 2019. The analysis reveals a weak relationship, although with important differences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013346911
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Economic conditions of young adults before and after the Great Recession
Sironi, Maria - 2017
Transition to adulthood has undoubtedly changed in the last few decades. For youth today, an important marker of adulthood is self-actualization in their professional career, and, consequently, also the achievement of stable financial conditions. Economic conditions of youth are greatly subject...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011725507
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Innovation and sectoral employment: A trade-off between compensation mechanisms
Ebersberger, Bernd; Pyka, Andreas - 1999
The question whether technological progress displaces employment or whether technological advance is beneficial for the … level of employment has been in the core of economic dispute for over two centuries. The beneficial might be achieved by … employment despite of innovation from employment via innovation. In the context of new innovation economics we model an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291721
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Methods of analyzing the relationship between new business formation and regional development
Fritsch, Michael - 2012
The paper reviews the approaches that have been followed for analyzing the effect of new business formation on regional development. It begins with an outline of how start-ups may affect regional development. In dealing with different ways of empirically assessing these effects, I particularly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291847
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Technology shocks, employment, and labor market frictions
Mandelman, Federico S.; Zanetti, Francesco - 2008
employment to a technology shock. The results of the estimation support the hypothesis that labor market frictions are … responsible for the negative response of employment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292305
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The insider-outsider theory: a survey
Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002
costs influence insider wages and outsiders? opportunities and how these costs affect employment and unemployment. We also … address the more complex, and open, question of how employment and unemployment move through time, in response to labor market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292491
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The minimum wage and hours per worker
Strobl, Eric; Walsh, Frank - 2010
In a competitive model we ease the assumption that efficiency units of labour are the product of hours and workers. We show that a minimum wage may either increase or decrease hours per worker and the change will have the opposite sign to the slope of the equilibrium hours hourly wage locus....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292875
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Falling trade costs, heterogeneous firms and industry dynamics
Bernard, Andrew Barnes; Jensen, J. Bradford; Schott, … - 2003
This paper examines the response of industries and firms to changes in trade costs. Several new firm-level models of international trade with heterogeneous firms predict that industry productivity will rise as trade costs fall due to the reallocation of activity across plants within an industry....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292937
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Labour-market outcomes of older workers in the Netherlands: Measuring job prospects using the occupational age structure
Bosch, Nicole; ter Weel, Bas - 2013
This paper analyses changes in job opportunities of older workers in the Netherlands in the period 1996-2010. The standard human capital model predicts that, as a result of human capital obsolescence, mobility becomes more costly when workers become older. We measure and interpret how changing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293115
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An anatomy of public sector unions
Hirsch, Barry T. - 2013
workforce. This paper provides a descriptive overview of union membership growth and economy-wide employment shares in the U …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293134