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Demand Shifts, Labour Mobility and Unemployment Persistence
Kratena, Kurt - 2000
expected wage income in a sector. Goods demand depends on real household (workers) income and on relative prices given by unit … costs. A simulation experiment shows that an ex ante aggregate neutral demand shift from the secondary to the primary sector … might have a positive impact on aggregate unemployment, while a demand shift from the primary to the secondary sector could …
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Research on labour market impacts of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program
Cardoso, Miguel; Haan, Michael; Lombardo, Federico; … - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014305030
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Issues and Prospects on the Movement of Natural Persons and Human Capital Development in the Philippine-American Economic Relations
Tullao, Tereso S.; Cortez, Michael Angelo A. - 2006
The United States of America is the top trading partner of the Philippines and also the top destination of highly skilled and professional Filipino workers. This paper explores the possibility of a free trade agreement (FTA) that covers the asymmetries of the two countries in labor, services and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011429833
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Taxation and unemployment: an applied general equilibrium approach for Germany
Boeters, Stefan; Böhringer, Christoph; Feil, Michael - 2002
(profits, output and labour demand elasticities, bargaining power) and generates wages that reflect empirical wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298083
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Financing higher education and labor mobility
Demange, Gabrielle; Fenge, Robert; Uebelmesser, Silke - 2008
This paper analyzes how mobility of post-graduate skilled workers and students across different countries affects the quality level of higher education and the way education is financed. We start by examining a closed economy. In the presence of imperfect credit markets the education level with...
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Wage and employment determination in volatile times: Sweden 1913-1939
Holmund, Bertil - 2012
demand equations suggest that cuts in working time may have slightly increased employment as firms substituted workers for …
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Wage and employment determination in volatile times: Sweden 1913 - 1939
Holmlund, Bertil - 2012
demand equations suggest that cuts in working time may have slightly increased employment as firms substituted workers for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282277
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Labour market adjustments in Europe and the US: How different?
Beyer, Robert C. M.; Smets, Frank - 2015
adjustment to region-specific labour demand shocks and only a little more in the US than in Europe, where adjustment takes twice … as long. In Europe labour mobility is a less important adjustment mechanism in response to country-specific labour demand …
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The dynamics of job creation and job destruction: is sub-saharan Africa different?
Shiferaw, Admasu; Bedi, Arjun S. - 2009
This paper analyzes the creation, destruction and reallocation of jobs in order to understand the micro-dynamics of aggregate employment change in African manufacturing. The nature and magnitude of gross job flows are examined using a unique panel data of Ethiopian manufacturing establishments...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271798
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Aging in a Neoclassical Theory of Labor Demand
Christiaans, Thomas - 2003
This paper introduces aging of workers into the neoclassical theory of labor demand. Among other things, it is shown …
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