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Job security and the age-composition of employment : evidence from Chile

Pagés, Carmen; Montenegro, Claudio E. - In: Estudios de economía 34 (2007) 2, pp. 109-139

This paper develops and tests a mechanism by which job security affects the age-composition of employment. This … with a substantial decline in the wage employment-to-population rate of young workers. In contrast, we do not find such a … decline in young self-employment rates or in the wage employment rates of older workers. Comparing results for men and women …

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Empirical analysis of employment and foreign direct investment in Malaysia : an ARDL bounds testing approach to cointegration

Pinn, Stan Lee Shun; Ching, Kok Sook; Kogid, Mori; … - In: Advances in management & applied economics 1 (2011) 3, pp. 77-91

This study examines the relationships between the employment and foreign direct investment (FDI) in Malaysia. The … employment opportunity in the country. Hence, we apply an empirical analysis to study the effect of FDI on the employment in …, and ECM-ARDL model. The results show that there is no cointegration relationship between employment and the FDI in the …

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Wage and occupational assimilation by skill level : migration policy lessons from Spain

Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 1 (2012), pp. 1-24

Spain and Ireland might seem at first to feature very different labour markets, which go from very tight to very flexible labour conditions. Our analysis, however, goes beyond this simplistic argument and brings to light some important similarities. For this purpose, we estimate a dynamic...

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Who bears the cost of the business cycle? : labor-market institutions and volatility of the youth unemployment rate

Kawaguchi, Daiji; Murao, Tetsushi - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 1 (2012), pp. 1-22

disproportionately falls on youths in countries with stricter employment protection. This implies that a higher adjustment cost of an … existing workforce induces the employment adjustment of new entrants into the labor market. -- unemployment ; labor market …

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How quickly does structural reform pay off? : an empirical analysis of the short-term effects of unemployment benefit reform

Bouis, Romain; Causa, Orsetta; Demmou, Lilas; Duval, Romain - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 1 (2012), pp. 1-12

insurance on steady-state employment, the short-term effects of benefit reforms are not well-established. This paper contributes …

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The New Keynesian Phillips Curve in an inflation targeting country : the case of Turkey

Gozgor, Giray - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 6 (2013) 1, pp. 7-18

The possible short-run trade-off between the inflation (gap) and the output (gap) remains a critical policy issue for any emerging economy; particularly when an implicit or an explicit inflation targeting monetary policy is considered. The New Keynesian Phillips Curve (NKPC) has recently set up...

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Who bears labour taxes and social contributions? : a meta-analysis

Melguizo, Ángel; González-Páramo, José Manuel - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 4 (2013) 3, pp. 247-271

In this paper we apply the meta-regression technique to survey the empirical literature on the economic incidence of labour taxes and social security contributions. In particular, we focus on the effects of taxation on wages to test the conventional view that employees bear the burden due to...

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The Portugal situation during the financial crisis

Lopreite, Milena - In: Advances in management & applied economics 1 (2011) 1, pp. 111-124

Today it's frequently used the terms PIGS or PIIGS, acronyms used by economic journalists to refer to different countries of the European Union for their statement of affairs. The bad connotation is evident from the fact that pigs in English suggest the bad state of the economies of these...

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The speculation bubble on the real estate market in the USA in view of selected overinvestment theories

Bochenek, Paweł - In: E-Finanse : finansowy kwartalnik internetowy 7 (2011) 1, pp. 73-87

This paper offers a specific analysis of speculation bubbles in the economic history of the world, and then tries to identify the causes and effects of the speculation bubble on the real estate market in the USA, which was the main cause of the subprime crisis. The first part of the paper aims...

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MICA-BBVA : a factor model of economic and financial indicators for short-term GDP forecasting

Camacho, Máximo; Doménech, Rafael - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 3 (2012) 4, pp. 475-497

In this paper we extend the Stock and Watson’s (Leading economic indicators, new approaches and forecasting records, 1991) single-index dynamic factor model in an econometric framework that has the advantage of combining information from real and financial indicators published at different...

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