Showing 1 - 10 of 240
Purpose – This paper aims to examine production linkage and technology spillovers due to the presence of foreign firms in the Indian pharmaceutical industry. Design/methodology/approach – This study employs the semi‐parametric estimation method suggested by Olley and Pakes to control for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014863283
Several recent studies show that seasonal variation and cyclical variation in unemployment are correlated. A common … seasonal adjustment on the analysis of cyclical patterns. Seasonally adjusted quarterly unemployment data for five G-7 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014620828
travel and tourism sector has great potential to reduce the unemployment and underemployment of young GCC citizens despite …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014624544
Abstract This paper examines theoretical and empirical aspects of the employment in Germany from 2000 - 2013. Inspired by Krelle’s (1996) discussion paper relevant German labor market data are traced and it is analyzed to which extend some theoretical employment considerations and labor market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014630821
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of public policies on engendering entrepreneurship and micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSME) development in Nigeria. Gaps in policies and factors that impede entrepreneurship and MSME development are identified and proposals...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014668583
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse the causes of unemployment in Ghana from both labour demand and … unemployment. Findings – Using education and age as capability variables to represent supply factors, unemployment is found to … increase with education, and declines with age, confirming higher unemployment rate among the youth, than the old. The paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014668857
government effort to reduce or at least control the high unemployment rate, the study found no relationship between FDI inflows … World Bank database only. Unemployment rate data were collected from the SAMA annual book. This study covered the period … government’s effort by reducing or at least controlling the country’s high unemployment rate, it also found no relationship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014684125
unemployment on the willingness of those laid off (victims) to endorse their previous employer to others. Design … treatment variables explained most of the endorsement variance. Length of unemployment was positively related to anger and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014693669
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine coping strategies, social support, and psychological distress for comparable samples of unemployed ( n =389) and re-employed ( n =270) individuals. The authors hypothesized that problem-focused coping and higher levels of social support would...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014694028
and unemployment stigma. A second purpose is to test for mean differences between study scales for increasingly long … investigating the impact of six variable sets on life satisfaction and unemployment stigma. These sets fall within the McKee‐Ryan et … variable set impact order on both life satisfaction and unemployment stigma. In addition some significant differences on study …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014694306