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the differential effects across impacted areas. We employ the synthetic control method at the county level on a storm-by-storm … basis to analyze both the across- and within-storm dispersion of the labor market effects of hurricanes. We use storm data … from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Storm Events database, which covers Atlantic Basin storms from …
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Regional employment volatility is an undesirable phenomenon which describes a strongly fluctuating pattern of … employment, thus, "instability" of a local economy. In the literature on this field, much of the attention has been paid to two … is actually two fold. First, we analyze the cross-regional determinants of employment volatility in Turkey and decompose …
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At first blush, most advances in labour demand were achieved by the late 1980s. Since then progress might appear to have stalled. We argue to the contrary that significant progress has been made in understanding labour market frictions and imperfections, and in modelling search behaviour and...
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workers at unaffected plants, we find that acquisitions lead to employment losses for workers initially employed at the … of a rise in wages for workers initially employed at targets and at the acquiring (or 'buyer') firm who remain with the … to a reduction in overall employment but a rise in rents per worker that lead to a pattern of losers and winners in the …
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A major aspect of employment growth is discussed in relation to economic growth. This paper deals with the question as … to whether the relationship between economic and employment growth, subsumed under the idiom Verdoorn's Law, holds true … markets. The employees are differentiated into sectoral affiliation, education, national status and part-time employment. The …
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longitudinal survey of newborns in Japan, we find that improvements in employment opportunities increase the probability of low … in female employment opportunities are significantly negatively associated with infant birth weight, but not with the …
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U3, the official unemployment rate, is an inadequate gauge of labor-market slack and the extent to which it misinforms varies substantially over the business cycle. The U6 unemployment rate is usually about 4 percentage points above U3. However, during the Great Recession it exceeded U3 by 7...
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In analyzing the disparities of the regional developments in the volume of employment in Germany, in the recent … focuses on the importance of spatial dependencies using spatial autocorrelation in order to analyze regional employment … indicate that the exogenous variables’ spatial lag sufficiently explains the spatial autocorrelation of regional employment …
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is directly aimed at reducing disparities in the employment sector. Against this background, the paper analyses the … impact of EU structural funds on employment drawing on a panel dataset of 130 European NUTS regions over the time period 1999 … funds ; dynamic panel models ; spatial panel econometrics ; regional employment effects …
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is directly aimed at reducing disparities in the employment sector. Against this background, the paper analyses the … impact of EU structural funds on employment drawing on a panel dataset of 130 European NUTS regions over the time period 1999 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118136