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We use micro data on affiliates to Swedish multinational firms (MNEs) to explore the impact of more stringent employment protection legislation (EPL) on foreign direct investment (FDI). We add to the previous literature by exploring the impact of EPL on the extensive as well as intensive margin,...
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Originally, anchoring labour rights to the existence of a personal relationship of subordination was functional to prevent the greater bargaining strength of the employed being disproportionately reflected in the terms and conditions regulating the provision of labour. This does not seem anymore...
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This report consists of a comprehensive overview of labour market institutions in the small Pacific island countries in order to propose recommendations to improve the performance of their labour markets. We pay particular attention to three countries: Fiji, Palau and Papua New Guinea. We focus...
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of data is an important source of uncertainty about the state of the economy. This paper evaluates the quality of major … growing data uncertainty over the past decade for Euro area variables. As a robustness check, we reckon our results using US … data and additionally show that uncertainty calculations are robust towards changes in final revision definition. Moreover …
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In this paper we investigate transmission and spillovers of local and foreign economic policy uncertainty shocks to … addition to local effects we find foreign uncertainty shocks influence the Euro area but not the US unemployment. Moreover we … document weaker spillovers of both local and foreign uncertainty shocks in the more volatile times. …
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We model economic policy uncertainty (EPU) in the four largest euro area countries by applying machine learning … components of overall EPU endogenously for a wide range of languages. The uncertainty indices computed from January 2000 to May … structural vector autoregression model to study the relationship between different sources of uncertainty and investment in …
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The UK's decision to leave the EU in the 2016 referendum created substantial uncertainty for UK businesses. The nature … of this uncertainty is different from that of a typical uncertainty shock because of its length, breadth and political … key results. First, Brexit was reported to be one of the top three sources of uncertainty for around 40% of UK businesses …
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We introduce a "smart" cap and trade system that eliminates the welfare costs of asymmetric information (“uncertainty …
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estimate a large-scale FAVAR model for 18 OECD member countries. We quantify the global effects of economic policy uncertainty … and financial sector effects of uncertainty. In that respect, we compare the impacts of a US and a Euro area uncertainty … shock. According to our results, an increase in uncertainty has a strong negative impact on economic activity, consumer …
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a large-scale FAVAR model for 18 OECD member countries. We quantify the global effects of economic policy uncertainty … and financial sector effects of uncertainty. In that respect, we compare the impacts of a US and a Euro area uncertainty … shock. According to our results, an increase in uncertainty has a strong negative impact on economic activity, consumer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012110907