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Trade policy as an exogenous shock: Focusing on the specifics
Greenland, Andrew; Lopresti, John W. - 2021
, we relate inflation-driven changes in trade protection to changes in imports and labor market outcomes in the full count …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012660917
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The Shifting Reasons for Beveridge-Curve Shifts
Barlevy, Gadi; Hobijn, Bart; Faberman, Jason; Sahin, … - 2023
relating unemployment and vacancies to inflation, the link between these labor market indicators and inflation depends on … curve shifts between 1960 and 2000. A reduction in matching efficiency, that depressed unemployment outflows, shifted the … Beveridge curve is essential for drawing policy conclusions from the joint behavior of unemployment and job openings. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469579
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The shifting reasons for Beveridge-curve shifts
Barlevy, Gadi; Faberman, R. Jason; Hobijn, Bart; … - 2023
relating unemployment and vacancies to inflation, the link between these labor market indicators and inflation depends on … curve shifts between 1960 and 2000. A reduction in matching efficiency, that depressed unemployment outflows, shifted the … Beveridge curve is essential for drawing policy conclusions from the joint behavior of unemployment and job openings. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014480477
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The effects of working time reductions on wages, actual hours and equilibrium unemployment
Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2001
This paper extends a general equilibrium model of unemployment and working hours and evaluates the model on a 5 percent …. Furthermore, working time reductions may result in an increase in wage pressure, causing unemployment to rise. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321052
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Genetic Distance and Cognitive Human Capital: A Cross-National Investigation
Kodila-Tedika, Oasis; Asongu, Simplice A. - 2015
This paper explores the determinants of intelligence by focusing on the role played by barriers to the diffusion of competence and human capital. The results based on cross-sectional data from 167 countries consisting of 1996-2009 averages suggest that, genetic distance to global frontiers has a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390915
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Nuclear accidents and policy: Notes on public perception
Richter, Felix; Steenbeck, Malte; Wilhelm, Markus - 2013
Major nuclear accidents as recently in Fukushima set nuclear power plant security at the top of the public agenda. Using data of the German Socio-Economic Panel we analyze the effects of the Fukushima accident and a subsequent government decision on nuclear power phase-out on several measures of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010322840
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Deviant behavior: A century of Philippine industrialization
de Dios, Emmanuel S.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2013
Recent work has documented industrial output growth around the poor periphery from 1870 to the present, finding unconditional convergence on the leaders long before the modern BRICS and even before the Asian Tigers. The Philippines was very much part of that catching up. In the decade or so up...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333519
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Beyond the "grid-lock" in electricity interconnectors: The case of Germany and Poland
Puka, Lidia; Szulecki, Kacper - 2014
The common European electricity market requires both market integration and transmission grid expansion, including trans-border interconnectors. Although the benefits of increased interconnectivity are widely acknowledged, expansion of interconnectors is often very slow. This paper gathers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352749
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Financial Development and Geographic Isolation: Global Evidence
Kodila-Tedika, Oasis; Asongu, Simplice; Cinyabuguma, … - 2016
Using cross-country differences in the degree of isolation before the advent of technologies in sea and air transportation, we assess the relationship between geographic isolation and financial development across the globe. We find that pre-historic geographical isolation has been beneficial to...
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Who benefited from industrialization? The local effects of hydropower technology adoption
Leknes, Stefan; Modalsli, Jørgen - 2018
This paper studies the impact of the construction of hydropower facilities on labor market outcomes in Norway at the turn of the twentieth century (1891-1920). The sudden breakthrough in hydropower technology provides a quasi-experimental setting, as not all municipalities had suitable natural...
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