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Job matching on connected regional and occupational labor markets

Fedorets, Alexandra; Stops, Michael; Lottmann, Franziska - 2017

Job mobility equilibrates disparities on local labor markets and influences the efficiency of the job matching process …. In this paper, we describe a job matching model that allows for simultaneous regional and occupational mobility … occupations in distinct regions. We specify a matching function for these local labor markets with regional spillovers …

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Job matching on non separated occupational labour markets

Stops, Michael - 2011 - Preliminary and not completed version

This work refers to analyses of matching processes on occupational labour markets in Germany. Up to now, all studies in … "spatial" lags for regressors. The results show considerable dependencies between similar occupational groups in the matching …. This has important implications for estimating the matching efficiencies of unemployed and vacancies, because the matching …

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Relationship between Trade Liberalisation, Economic Growth and Trade Balance: An Econometric Investigation

Parikh, Ashok; Stirbu, Corneliu - 2004

This is a study of 42 developing countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America in which we first examine the impact of trade liberalisation on economic growth, investment share of GDP, openness, trade balance and current accounts (as percentages of GDP). Both panel data and country by country data...

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Relationship between Trade Liberalisation, Growth and Balance of Payments in Developing Countries: An Econometric Study

Parikh, Ashok - 2004

The objectives of this paper are to study the impact of liberalisation on trade deficits and current accounts of developing countries. It is expected that trade liberalisation would promote economic growth from the supply side by leading to a more efficient use of resources, by encouraging...

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Wage and Productivity Effect of Continuing Training in Germany: A Sectoral Analysis

Kuckulenz, Anja - 2006

Wage and productivity effects of training are compared to study how the training rent is shared between employers and employees. With panel data from 1996-2002, I analyse the impact of continuing training on wages and productivity in a Cobb-Douglas production framework. Using system GMM...

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Does product market competition reduce inflation? Evidence from EU countries and sectors

Przybyla, Marcin; Roma, Moreno - 2005

In this paper we explore the link between the intensity of product market competition and inflation rates across EU countries and sectors. We consider long-term averages of inflation rates in order to remove the cyclical behavior of inflation over time and as alternative proxies of competition...

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Autocratic transitions and growth

Nannicini, Tommaso; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2010

In this paper we use a transparent statistical methodology - synthetic control methods - to implement data-driven comparative studies about the impact of autocratic transition on real per capita GDP. The applied methodology compares the growth of countries that experienced a transition to...

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Regional spillovers and spatial heterogeneity in matching workers and employers in Germany

Kosfeld, Reinhold - 2006

uncover the effectiveness at which workers are matched to available jobs. A spatially augmented matching function is backed by … assuming the process of job matching to be homogenous across space. This study shows that this supposition is not valid for the … matching process. Spatial heterogeneity is additionally found on the level of German macroregions. Though matching efficiency …

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What linear estimators miss: Re-examining the effects of family income on child outcomes

Løken, Katrine V.; Mogstad, Magne; Wiswall, Matthew - 2010

This paper uses a rich Norwegian dataset to re-examine the causal relationship between family income and child outcomes. Motivated by theoretical predictions and OLS results that suggest a nonlinear relationship, we depart from previous studies in allowing the marginal effects on children's...

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Effectiveness of Climate Policies: Empirical Methods and Evidence

Dieler, Julian - 2016

This volume was prepared by Julian Dieler while he was working with the Center for Energy, Climate and exhaustible Resources at the Ifo Institute for Economic Research. At the latest since the adoption of the Kyoto Protocol in 1997 climate policies are permanently on the international policy...

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