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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 a framework on the trade-off between the inflation (gap) and the …
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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
are related to tenure. Using 39 consecutive annual household-surveys from Chile, we find that job security is associated … ; severance pay ; Chile ; job tenure …
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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 Malaysian government continues to put efforts in attracting more FDI inflows as it seems that FDI plays a major role in the economic development of Malaysia. Besides, there is...
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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
The way age-specific unemployment rates fluctuate over the business cycle differs significantly across countries. This paper examines the effect of labor-market institutions on the fluctuations of age-specific unemployment rates based on panel data of 18 OECD countries between 1971 and 2008....
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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
While there is a fairly broad consensus regarding the potential adverse effects of generous unemployment benefit insurance on steady-state employment, the short-term effects of benefit reforms are not well-established. This paper contributes to fill this gap by estimating impulse responses to...
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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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Test of an inverted J-shape hypothesis between the expected real exchange rate and real output : the case of Ireland
Hsing, Yu - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 3 (2010) 1, pp. 39-47
rate, or a lower expected inflation rate would increase real output. Fiscal prudence may be needed as the coefficient of …
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Responsiveness of trade flows to changes in exchange rate and relative prices : evidence from Nigeria
Oyinlola, M. Abimbola; Adeniyi, Oluwatosin; Omisakin, … - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 3 (2010) 2, pp. 123-141
This paper examines the long-run and short-run impacts of exchange rate and price changes on trade flows in Nigeria using exports and imports functions. The bounds testing (ARDL) approach to cointegration is applied on a quarterly data from 1980 Q1 to 2007 Q4. The results indicate that in both...
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A time-varying parameter vector autoregression model for forecasting emerging market exchange rates
Kumar, Manish - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 3 (2010) 2, pp. 21-39
In this study, a vector autoregression (VAR) model with time-varying parameters (TVP) to predict the daily Indian rupee (INR)/US dollar (USD) exchange rates for the Indian economy is developed. The method is based on characterization of the TVP as an optimal control problem. The methodology is a...
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