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Labour market institutions and unemployment: An international comparison

Flaig, Gebhard; Rottmann, Horst - 2011

This paper deals with the effects of labour market institutions on unemployment in a panel of 19 OECD countries for the … of the unemployment rate. Our novel contribution is the estimation of panel models where we allow for heterogeneous … tax burden on labour income and a more generous unemployment insurance system increase, whereas a higher centralization of …

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Keeping a low profile: What determines the allocation of aid by non-governmental organizations?

Koch, Dirk-Jan; Dreher, Axel; Nunnenkamp, Peter; … - 2008

NGOs play an important role in international development cooperation, but the allocation of NGO aid has rarely been mapped, let alone explained. Based on a representative dataset for 61 important NGOs from various OECD countries, we analyze the targeting of NGO aid across a large number of...

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Measuring international inequality aversion

Tol, Richard S. J. - 2008

I measure the rate of aversion to inequality in consumption as expressed in the development aid given by rich countries to poor ones between 1965 and 2005. Over time, OECD countries have become less concerned about international inequity. Even for a fairly leaky bucket, the consumption rate of...

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Risk Aversion, time preference, and the social cost of carbon

Anthoff, David; Tol, Richard S. J.; Yohe, Gary W. - 2008

this estimate for income differences across the world, the social cost of carbon rises to over $200/tC. …

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Service trade liberalization as a handmaiden of competitiveness in manufacturing: An industrialized or developing country issue?

Langhammer, Rolf J. - 2006

This paper discusses the issue whether developing countries forego chances in world manufactured markets by protecting intermediate services against market entry of new suppliers. By scanning the empirical literature on effective rates of protection (ERP), the evidence is supportive. Yet, it...

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The information content of capacity utilisation rates for output gap estimates

Graff, Michael; Sturm, Jan-Egbert - 2010

are not revised. Our real-time panel data set comprises 22 countries at an annual frequency with data vintages from 1995 …

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Testing the growth effects of structural change

Hartwig, Jochen - 2010

means of a Granger-causality analysis of a panel of 18 OECD countries. …

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Tax policy for economic recovery and growth

Heady, Christopher; Johansson, Åsa; Arnold, Jens; … - 2009

This paper identifies tax policy that both speeds recovery from the current economic crisis and contributes to long-run growth. This is a challenge because short-term recovery requires increases in demand while long-term growth requires increases in supply. As short-term tax concessions can be...

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Productivity, preferences and UIP deviations in an open economy business cycle model

Bhattacharjee, Arnab; Chadha, Jagjit S.; Sun, Qi - 2008

We show that a flex-price two-sector open economy DSGE model can explain the poor degree of international risk sharing and exchange rate disconnect. We use a suite of model evaluation measures and examine the role of (i) traded and non-traded sectors; (ii) financial market incompleteness; (iii)...

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Changing authority relations in puplic science systems and their consequences for the direction and organisation of research

Whitley, Richard - 2008

The governance and organisation of scientific research undertaken for publication have altered significantly since the end of the Second World War in many industrialised economies. These changes have had significant effects on authority relations governing research goals, approaches and the...

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