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This paper evaluates the effects for the Spanish case of allowing greater flexibility regarding the weekly hours worked on the working week, employment and productivity. A baseline model economy is calibrated to reproduce the cross-sectional distribution of workweeks across plants, as well as...
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investments on the unemployment in 21 emerging economies over the period 1994-2014. Design/methodology/approach: The effect of … domestic and foreign direct investments on unemployment was investigated via panel data analysis. First tests of cross … unemployment. Furthermore, foreign direct investment inflows affected the unemployment positively in the long term, but domestic …
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effect of FDI on the district unemployment outflow and inflow rates, the aggregate unemployment exit hazard rates, and … subsequently both the unemployment rate and the employment rate. Using difference-in-differences analysis, labor market performance …. The results indicate a positive significant impact of the investment on the local unemployment outflow rate driven mainly …
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for 19 OECD countries on unemployment, FDI, and labor market institutions. Results support the model in that net-FDI is … robustly associated with lower rates of aggregate unemployment. -- FDI ; search unemployment ; labor market institutions … global financial markets enables capital owners to invest abroad, thereby fostering unemployment at the extensive industry …
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facilitates the analysis of skill-specific institutional changes. A government can influence wages and unemployment of the low …-skilled by manipulating labor market institutions concerning high-skill workers only. One-sided interventions affect all workers … at home and abroad irrespective of their level of skill. -- FDI ; globalization ; search unemployment ; labor market …
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investments on the unemployment in 21 emerging economies over the period 1994-2014. Design/methodology/approach: The effect of … domestic and foreign direct investments on unemployment was investigated via panel data analysis. First tests of cross … unemployment. Furthermore, foreign direct investment inflows affected the unemployment positively in the long term, but domestic …
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The article investigates the relationship between economic growth, foreign direct investment and unemployment in five … also indicate that FDI has a negative influence on unemployment and this implies that an increase of FDI can contribute to … reducing the unemployment rate in Central Asia. We also found that GDP and unemployment do not cause other variables, while FDI …
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facilitates the analysis of skill-specific institutional changes. A government can influence wages and unemployment of the low …-skilled by manipulating labor market institutions concerning high-skill workers only. One-sided interventions affect all workers …
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Purpose: The paper examines the effect of foreign direct investment on unemployment in Ghana. Design … technique. Findings: The paper found that unemployment has a long-run relationship with foreign direct investment, gross … with unemployment. On the contrary, export of goods and services positively relate to unemployment in the long-run devoid …
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in her history. Accompanying these inflows, the country also achieved high rates of growth. However, high unemployment … manufacturing towards a higher value-added production, cannot be a cure for the high rates of unemployment in the country …
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