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Forty Years On : Researching the Globalization of the Japanese Firm in the UK

Matanle, Peter - 2014

Forty years have now passed since the economic relationship between Britain and Japan started to deepen beyond arms-length trading ties. This article presents an overview of research on the globalization of the Japanese firm by looking at work produced from the UK standpoint over the last four...

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Internal Devaluation and Labor Market Outcomes : Evidence from Latvia

Lehmann, Hartmut - 2017

unemployment. Underemployment constitutes another important adjustment channel, while the evidence for informal employment is more …

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Give Me Liberty and Give Me Control : Economic Freedom, Control Perceptions and the Paradox of Choice

Bennett, Daniel - 2018

We explore the relationship between individual control perceptions and the degree to which a country's institutions and policies are consistent with the principles of economic freedom. Using data from the World Value Surveys and the Economic Freedom of the World (EFW) index, we find that people...

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How Mass Immigration Affects Countries with Weak Economic Institutions : A Natural Experiment in Jordan

Nowrasteh, Alex - 2018

Saddam Hussein's unexpected 1990 invasion of Kuwait forced 300,000 Kuwaitis of Palestinian descent to flee into Jordan. By 1991, this large exogenous population shock increased Jordan's population by about 10 percent. Jordanian law allowed these refugees to work, live, and vote in Jordan...

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Demokratie , öffentliche Güter und Europa

Mavrozacharakis, Emmanouil - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

The rise of the extreme poles in the European political Spectrum, corresponds currently with a clear call for help by the site of simple People, combined with the desire for a serious confrontation with the tragic impasse reproduced by the extreme Problems of the everyday live . In this case,...

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Evaluating the Dynamic Employment Effects of Training Programs in East Germany Using Conditional Difference-in-Differences

Speckesser, Stefan; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Bergemann, Annette - 2004

This paper evaluates the effects of Public Sponsored Training in East Germany in the context of reiterated treatments. Selection bias based on observed characteristics is corrected for by applying kernel matching based on the propensity score. We control for further selection and the presence of...

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Occupational Sorting and Wage Gaps of Refugees

Baum, Christopher F.; Lööf, Hans; Stephan, Andreas; … - 2020

Refugee workers start low and adjust slowly to the wages of comparable natives. The innovative approach in this study using unique Swedish employeremployee data shows that the observed wage gap between established refugees and comparable natives is mainly caused by occupational sorting into...

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Occupational Sorting and Wage Gaps of Refugees

Baum, Christopher F.; Lööf, Hans; Stephan, Andreas; … - 2020

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Unemployment and health: a panel event study

Raftopoulou, Athina; Giannakopoulos, Nicholas - 2021

Adopting a panel event study framework, we estimate the effect of unemployment on health outcomes by exploiting the … variation in the timing of entering unemployment using longitudinal data for Greece. We find, that in the periods ahead of an … unemployment event, health outcomes decline and unmet needs for medical care increase. These findings are valid only for men and …

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Estimating the wage premia of refugee immigrants: Lessons from Sweden

Baum, Christopher F.; Lööf, Hans; Stephan, Andreas; … - 2024

This paper examines the wage earnings of fully-employed previous refugee immigrants in Sweden. Using administrative employer-employee data from 1990 onwards, about 100,000 refugee immigrants who arrived between 1980 and 1996 and were granted asylum, are compared to a matched sample of...

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