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Seasonal adjustment and the detection of business cycle phases
Matas Mir, Antonio; Osborn, Denise R. - 2004
To date, there has been little investigation of the impact of seasonal adjustment on the detection of business cycle expansion and recession regimes. We study this question both analytically and through Monte Carlo simulations. Analytically, we view the occurrence of a single business cycle...
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Italy´s employment gap: the role of taxation
Bardone, Laura - 2010
unemployment rate that has been reduced to below the EU average over the past decade, the employment gap vis-à-vis most other EU …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009641053
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Regional disparities in Poland
Bogumil, Piotr - 2009
investment). This has resulted in persistently high unemployment and low employment rates in some regions. …
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Unemployment in Austria: low, but…
Sherwood. Monika - 2006
On the face of it, Austria’s labour market performs very well, which is reflected in one of the lowest unemployment … rates in the EU. However, while many of the euro area members have recently succeeded in reducing unemployment, the Austrian …. In addition the unemployment statistics are distorted by the relatively low labour force participation of older workers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009661734
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Structural unemployment: a blot on the Finnish success story
Maiväli, Mart - 2006
feature of the Finnish economy compared with that of Sweden and Denmark is the higher level of unemployment. In the early 1990 … adapt. The spectacular recovery of the Finnish economy has pushed up labour demand. While unemployment has fallen back from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009668588
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High unemployment in Poland - not only a labour market problem
Narożny, Michał - 2006
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Institutions and service employment
Messina, Julián - 2004
We live in a service economy, but the extent of development of service employment differs across developed countries. This paper assesses the role of structural factors and institutions in explaining the common patterns and main differences in the recent expansion of service employment in OECD...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009636543
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Changes in the Czech wage structure
Dybczak, Kamil; Galuščák, Kamil - 2010
Using the Albrecht et al. (2003) version of the Machado and Mata (2005) decomposition technique along the wage distribution, we find that immigrant workers do not affect changes in the Czech wage structure between 2002 and 2006 despite their substantial inflows. Instead, changes in the wage...
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Euro area labour markets
Bruha, Jan; Pierluigi, Beatrice; Serafini, Roberta - 2011
A small labour market model for the six largest euro area countries (Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium) is estimated in a state -space framework. The model entails, in the long run, four driving forces: a trend labour force component, a trend labour productivity component,...
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The Integration of Migrants and its Effects on the Labour Market
Eichhorst, Werner; Giulietti, Corrado; Guzi, Martin - 2011
This study provides an overview of the situation of immigrants in the European Union, by focusing on the process of their integration and its impact on the labour market. Section 1 provides information on the scale of the migration phenomenon, focusing on the origin patterns of immigrants to the...
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