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Worker-Firm Matching and Unemployment in Transition to a Market Economy : (Why) are the Czechs More Successful than Others?

Munich, Daniel - 2010

In this paper we compare the nature and determinants of outflows from unemployment in the case of the Czech and Slovak Republics which in early 1990's experienced a process close to a controlled experiment. Overall, our study suggests that the exceptionally low unemployment rate in the Czech...

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How to Increase R&D in Transition Economies? Evidence from Slovenia

Svejnar, Jan; Domadenik, Polona; Praanikar, Janez - 2021

Paper addresses the recent initiatives of EU Lisbon Agenda to increase level of R&D expenses in EU Member States by studying firm-level panel data in most advanced transition economy, Slovenia. Previous empirical literature - mainly cross-sectional - has tested the demand-pull hypothesis and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317067

Worker-Firm Matching and Unemployment in Transition to a Market Economy : (Why) are the Czechs More Successful than Others?

Munich, Daniel; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - 1999

In this paper we compare the nature and determinants of outflows from unemployment in the case of the Czech and Slovak Republics, which in early 1990's experienced a process close to a controlled experiment. Overall, our study suggests that the exceptionally low unemployment rate in the Czech...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014044937

Loans to Households and Unemployment Reduction : A Worldwide Panel Data Analysis (2001–2011)

Georgiou, Miltiades N. - 2012

In the present paper an empirical analysis will point out that loans to households trigger consumption which in turn through the creation of economic growth, as claimed by Saito (2007), reduces unemployment. Austerity measures should not last for too long, since economy will face too many...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096108

The Life-Cycle Hypothesis Revisited : Evidence on Housing Consumption after Retirement

Beblo, Miriam - 2011

According to the life-cycle theory of consumption and saving, foreseeable retirement events should not reduce consumption. Whereas some consumption expenditures may fall when goods are self-produced (given higher leisure after retirement), this argument applies especially to housing consumption...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131722

Inter-Relationship between Economic Growth, Savings and Inflation in Asia

Chaturvedi, Vaibhav - 2008

The present study examines the inter-relationship between economic growth, savings rate and inflation for south … between savings rate and growth has been found to be bi-directional and positive. Inflation has a highly significant negative … effect on growth but positive effect on savings rate. Inflation is not affected by growth but is largely determined by its …

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International Evidence on the Determinants of Private Saving

Masson, Paul R. - 2006

A broad set of possible determinants of private saving behavior is examined, using data for a large sample of industrial and developing countries. Both time-series and cross-section estimates are obtained. Results suggest that there is a partial offset on private saving of changes in public...

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Family Job Search and Wealth : The Added Worker Effect Revisited

Garacia-Perez, J. Ignacio - 2016

children in the household. We also show that excluding wealth and savings from the analysis and estimation leads to …

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Banking Sector Development and Household Saving in Emerging Eastern Europe

Rahmanov, Ramiz - 2015

This article examines the impact of the banking sector development on households' saving dynamics in the emerging economies of Eastern Europe. For this purpose, we use the mean group FMOLS estimator to estimate the saving function augmented with variables characterizing three dimensions of the...

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New Evidence on the Private Saving Offset and Ricardian Equivalence

Röhn, Oliver - 2010

The ability of discretionary fiscal policy to affect economic activity following shocks depends on how private agents react. This paper re-investigates the extent of possible offsetting private saving behaviour to fiscal policy changes. The results suggest that the private saving offset is...

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