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The Political Economy of Privatization: Why Do Governments Want Reforms?

Boerner, Kira - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004

. Under privatization, governments commit not to in influence the profit-maximizing employment choice by private investors …

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Product Market Deregulation and Employment Outcomes: Evidence from the German Retail Sector

Senftleben-König, Charlotte - Berlin Doctoral Program in Economics and Management Science

This paper investigates the effects of the deregulation of business hours legislation on retail employment in Germany … liberalization of closing laws in order to identify the effect of product market deregulation on retail employment. I report evidence … that the deregulation had moderately negative effects on retail employment, leading to a loss of 19,000 full …

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The job generation impacts of expanding industrial cogeneration

Baer, Paul; Brown, Marilyn A.; Kim, Gyungwon - In: Ecological Economics 110 (2015) C, pp. 141-153

general-equilibrium effects including supply- and demand-side resources. We identify first-order employment impacts by …

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Comparing the sustainability of U.S. electricity options through multi-criteria decision analysis

Klein, Sharon J.W.; Whalley, Stephanie - In: Energy Policy 79 (2015) C, pp. 127-149

Sustainable energy decision-making requires comparing energy options across a wide range of economic, environmental, social and technical implications. However, such comparisons based on quantitative data are currently limited at the national level. This is the first comparison of 13 currently...

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The determinants of capital intensity in Japan and the US

Judzik, Dario; Sala, Hector - In: Journal of the Japanese and International Economies 35 (2015) C, pp. 78-98

We estimate the determinants of capital intensity in Japan and the US, characterized by striking different paths. We augment an otherwise standard Constant Elasticity of Substitution (CES) model with demand-side considerations, which we find especially relevant in the US. In this augmented...

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Individual and Aggregate Labor Supply in a Heterogeneous Agent Economy with Intensive and Extensive Margins

Chang, Yonsung; Kim, Sun-Bin; Kwon, Kyooho - Economic Research Institute, College of Business and … - 2012

We develop a heterogeneous-agent general equilibrium model that incorporates both intensive and extensive margins of labor supply. A nonconvexity in the mapping between time devoted to work and labor services distinguishes between extensive and intensive margins. We consider calibrated versions...

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Long-run effects of gestation during the Dutch Hunger Winter famine on labor market and hospitalization outcomes

Scholte, Robert S.; den Berg, Gerard J. van; Lindeboom, … - In: Journal of Health Economics 39 (2015) C, pp. 17-30

find a significantly negative effect of exposure during the first trimester of gestation on employment outcomes 53 or more …

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Visions and Reality of Un/employment Development in Companies in South-Moravian Region during the Economic Recession

Svobodová, Hana; Fišer, Pavel - In: Regionální studia 2012 (2012) 1, pp. 14-23

Since 2008, the labour market of the European Union has been significantly impacted by the economic recession which is evident also in all regions of the Czech Republic, including the South-Moravian Region. Impacts of the economic recession on the labour market are reflected mainly in reduction...

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The relationship between dynamic price and dynamic unemployment: the case of the Central European-3 and the Baltic Tigers

Dumlao, Luis F. - In: International Journal of Economic Sciences 2014 (2014) 2, pp. 20-42

Convention specifies the relationship between price and unemployment in terms of the Phillips curve (PC) where inflation and the rate of unemployment are correlated. This paper uses a variant of the PC that is more consistent with the relationship between price and output as depicted in the...

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Do Developed Economies Have a Chance to Restore Manufacturing Production?

Neumann, Pavel - In: Acta Oeconomica Pragensia 2014 (2014) 2, pp. 3-16

(employment growth, technological progress, development of new industries, etc.) including the role of the state in their …

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