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Rejuvenating Greece's labour market to generate more and higher-quality jobs
Bulman, Tim - 2020
Greece’s labour market entered the COVID-19 shock following several years of sustained employment growth and with wages picking up. Unemployment remained high and employment rates were low, especially among women, the young and older workers. The shock led to a sharp fall in labour force...
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Did openness and human capital affect total factor productivity? : evidence from the South Asian Region
Rath, Badri Narayan; Parida, Purna Chandra - In: Global journal of emerging market economies 6 (2014) 2, pp. 103-118
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Openness and urban concentration in Europe, 1870-1990
Nitsch, Volker - 2001
confirm earlier findings of a negative relationship between openness and city size for the period from 1970 to 1990, but are …
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On the Determinants of Labour Market Institutions: Rent-sharing vs. Social Insurance
Agell, Jonas - 2000
What determines the structure of labour market institutions? This paper argues that common explanations based on rent sharing are incomplete; unions, job protection, and egalitarian pay structures may have as much to do with social insurance of otherwise uninsurable risks as with rent sharing and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321727
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Growth, Inequality and Poverty Relationships
Heshmati, Almas - 2004
in the inequality and growth literature. These include growth, openness, wages, and liberalisation. We review the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262079
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Openness and Human Capital as Sources of Productivity Growth : An Empirical Investigation from the MENA Countries
Haouas, Ilham; Yagoubi, Mahmoud - 2005
This paper investigates the impact of openness to trade and higher levels of human capital on the economies of some … MENA countries. To answer the question: whether either human capital or openness can be shown to cause productivity, we use … show a significant impact of openness on productivity growth. We find also an effect, significant at the ten per cent level …
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Defensive Innovations
Koeniger, Winfried - 2002
Defensive innovations in developed countries can explain the empirical phenomenon that openness towards trade with less …
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Natural disasters and the effect of trade on income: A new panel IV approach
Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Gröschl, Jasmin - 2011
Does trade openness cause higher GDP per capita? Since the seminal instrumental variables (IV) estimates of Frankel and … level to construct an instrument for multilateral openness that varies across countries and time. The instrument can be used …' performances as well as for the direct effect of disasters. We find that the elasticity of income with respect to openness is about …
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Demography, financial openness, national savings and external balance
Graff, Michael; Tang, Kam Ki; Zhang, Jie - 2008
This paper examines the impact of demographic factors on saving, investment, and external balances. We derive a number of semi-structural equations from national accounting principle and the principle that external balances for the world as a whole must sum to zero. The resulting equations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277752
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Institution and development revisited: A nonparametric approach
Basu, Sudip Ranjan; Das, Monica - 2008
The paper uses nonparametric methodology to examine the role of institutions in understanding differential levels of development across countries. This technique estimates first order derivatives for every country allowing a deeper look into the impact of institutions on development. The...
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