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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

on overall aggregate employment, participation or unemployment rates. -- job security ; employment composition …

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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

dynamic simulations that account for the swings of the unemployment rates before and after the 2007 crisis. Our results … productivity, and demographics, succeed in explaining a great part of the changes in unemployment in both countries …. -- unemployment dynamics ; structural multi-equation models ; chain reaction theory ; simulations ; PIGS …

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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 … 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

While there is a fairly broad consensus regarding the potential adverse effects of generous unemployment benefit …. Findings indicate that although it takes time for unemployment benefit reforms to pay off, such reforms do not appear to entail … any negative short-run effects. There is however some suggestive evidence that reducing unemployment benefits could have …

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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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